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- Membership of pinger-my in https://groups.google.com
- Aqsa Hameed has been added as of Dec 20, 2015. Johari will add her to http://pinger.unimas.my/pinger/contact.php.
This will most likely be Anjum's last meeting. he He has already resigned from the University of Malaya. IHe He will l be leaving Malaysia on 31st January or 1 February. He will stay for 15 days in Pakistan then travel to Canada. We will miss him, and wish him all the best in his new startup.
Huffington Post article on PingER and African Internet performance, see http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-tereshchuk/a-giant-leap-in-2016-africa_b_8901556.html
- NETAPPS2015 1-3 December 2015 was very successful, five papers were presented in the PingER session
- Currently, NetApps organizers are in the process of sending NETAPPS2015 proceedings to be indexed in the major indexing services.
9 students from Amity University near New Delhi in India interested in coming to SLAC. Bebo sent reminder recently, response below:
Sorry for the delay. Students are giving end semester exams. They are busy till dec 20th. They will get back to work as soon as the exams are done. Once the exam is over we will be setting up "PingER measurement agent at Amity"
Three students have each written a short paper for the 6th International Conference on Cloud System and Big Data Engineering at Amity Jan 14-15, 2016. I have reviewed and made some corrections
443: Analysis and clustering PingER network data
463: Application for the emulation of pinger on Android devices
432: Correlation analysis on Real Time Tab Delimited Network monitoring data
Btech computer science students would be graduating in May 2016. Their visas can be arranged after May 2016.
- Joao a Brazillian student identified by Renan is interested in a 3 month internship at SLAC similar to those completed by Renan and Thiago.
- Have letter of Support for Academic Training from his organization.
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- Saqib has a 5 MS students from the Database team
Farah Massoud
Sabah Massoumil working on Linked Open Data (please excuse spelling)
Aqsa Hameed working on big data/analysis of PingER data. The initial idea was to set up a big data/big analysis
Aqsa Hameed has been working with Anjum to look at a project to create a Hadoop/Cloudera PingER warehouse to enable easier, more powerful access to PingER historical data.
Thinking a bit on Aqsa her work appears to be related to the work done by Thiago on PingER warehouse using a cluster/Cloudera/HDFS/Impala earlier this year. In particular see the presentation at NETAPPS2015 (see https://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/download/attachments/123309267/NETAPPS_PRESENTATIONrevLuiza.pptx. Once the paper is published we can also provide her with that (Adib will let us know when this is OK).
Les emailed the relevant people to put them in contact with one another. It appears there is a lot of overlap between what Aqsa proposed as a Masters project and what Thiago has already done. However Thiago's system was mainly a proof of concept and not in production. We need to look at the next steps: Internet access, auto-updating of information in near realtime, production service, maintainable etc. With this in place one could really mine the data looking for all kinds of interesting correlations, clustering, event impacts, comparisons etc.
- Saqib has submitted a project with title "A Fundamental Active Internet Performance Monitoring Framework for Pakistan Education & Research Network (PERN) in University of Agriculture, Faisalabad"
Project is accepted.
working on a project to develop a node using Raspberry Pi 2 and IoT to measure the air and soil quality.
Currently, students are analyzing the project to develop a problem statement for their research project.Saqib has 5 students interested in PingER. In particular in Big Data, Data Mining and Geolocation.
For the GeoLocation Saqib should contact Anjum
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Hassaan reports: "There are total of 48 active nodes for Pakistan out of which 18 nodes are working properly whereas 4 nodes have configuration issues. Lahore college for Woman has changed its data center and they want to know what do have to do with the new one. Faisalabad PERN had some critical issues and burnt their power supply so they also wanted to know what can be done to overcome that damage. FAST University Karachi and Air University, Islamabad are not in a mood to help as they say that they will put the node up, but haven’t done that in past 2 months [I Hassaan would like to discuss this with Dr. Anjum for excluding them from the list]. Last but not the least Quetta HEC regional center wanted to change their static IP to 121.52.157.148."
Les has Disabled the following Pakistani monitors since they have no DNS name and are not responding by IP address. pinger.numl.edu.pk, pinger.uet.edu.pk, pinger.uob.edu.pk, pinger.usindh.edu.pk. We are still monitoring hosts at the site.
PingER at SLAC
Working on the following hosts to be able to gather data
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