...
- Funding source will accept the projects if it is designed for the development of Agriculture in the University.
- Objective: The active internet performance monitoring framework for the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad helps in forecasting and detecting the events that cause bottleneck links in the network affecting the overall performance of the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad.
- Initially the project is accepted. However, I received the following comment
- The PI was advised to include in the project the justification how it will have an impact on agriculture development in the University of Agriculture Faisalabad Pakistan.
- For justification I have added the following paragraph:
- The aim of this project is to provide the performance analysis and anomaly detection framework for the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad in order to detect the events that cause bottleneck links in the network affecting the overall performance of the University. Further, It will help to improve the performance of the web applications running in the university.
- Les added:
Internet connectivity is critical to agriculture, especially since agriculture is usually conducted in rural and possibly remote areas. In particular it enables farmers to ascertain the optimum prices for seeds, fertilizers at, the most promising markets etc for their goods, upcoming weather conditions, forecasting yields, providing information for addressing challenges etc. It also supports timely sharing of information between farmers, their customers, and learning of new relevant developments from research and industrial centers such as the universities. This is very important since the adoption of new technologies has always been an important factor in agricultural productivity. See http://pnwsteep.wsu.edu/directseed/conf2k5/pdf/gillis.pdf
Understanding the Internet performance between the University of Agriculture and other areas of Pakistan will enable setting up: information centers at Faisalabad, outreach to agricultural communities (e.g. by social tools etc.), by setting realistic expectations for connectivity and hence capabilities to various regions of Pakistan for email, web, chat rooms, data sharing etc.
Bebo provided a coupe of links to IOT that may assist:
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/08/03/the-internet-of-things-and-the-future-of-farming/?_r=1
Saqib has 5 students interested in PingER. In particular in Big Data, Data Mining and Geolocation.
For the GeoLocation Saqib should contact Anjum
For Big Data and Data Mining I suspect they will need a cloud/cluster. Given the problem at other sites it is important to be assured they will have the appropriate resources to pursue their work.
UUM
Fatima implemented her work (involving HDFS and MapReduce with Pinger Data) on 50MB to 200MB data sets, using a 2-node cluster, and then a 3-node cluster. The work is not completed, but she has obtained some good results and is putting together the presentation for her final viva. She and Ibrahim are using the same cloud/cluster at MYREN. No update 11/3/2015
...
"Faculty management in the Faculty of Computing-UTM is changed. They ask me to re-locate the PingER server from the faculty server room as students are not allowed for physical access of the server room. Only faculty members are allowed to physically manage the servers in the server room. Therefore, I asked my supervisor (Dr Md Asri Ngadi/ Prof Hanan) from UTM to take the responsibility of the server. He is agreed, however, I have to manage the server remotely. Further, he needs an official invitation from your side to fulfill the official requirements. Further, he wants to make this project as a source of an international collaboration and linkages between UTM and SLAC-Stanford."
Les sent back:
The UTM PingER server is part of a worldwide collaboration led by SLAC that includes about 70 sites in over 20 countries. These sites are monitoring on-going Internet end-to-end performance , both currently and in the past with a history of 18 years of collected data.
SLAC is happy to host postgraduate students from UTM for a period of up to a year to contribute to this project as visiting scientists.
The students participate in collaborative research and development on the Internet End-to-end Performance Measurement (IEPM) project to monitor, analyze and present information on the end-to-end performance of Internet links. This project includes researching and developing techniques to optimize the measurements for the purposes of characterizing the “Digital Divide”. Dr. Les. Cottrell of SLAC’s Office of the Chief Information Officer is the host. All support for the visit is provided by sources other than SLAC.
The students are expected to comply with all policies and procedures, including safety guidelines. Your mentor will provide them with any specific policies, procedures or safety guidelines for their assigned area. As a program participant, the student does not enter an employee/employer relationship with DOE, SLAC or any other federal agency.
MYREN
No update 8/12/2015, no Update 9/2/2015.
...