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• Adib is blessed with a baby girl (Maryam) on Sunday 18, August. Currently on parental leave.

• Adib enquired about the status of his request to visit SLAC. After the meeting Les followed up with SLAC's international services, they said requests are taking 3-9 months to process.

• Adib asked a student (Jaafrau)  to explore  “Creative visualization of PingER data, including rich interaction;”.  He has come up with a good design, yet the development part needs a lot of work. Adib will ask him to upload his interface and share the link. No update 8/24/2016

• Adib has another student starting in September. Adib will look at directing him to PingER.

• Adib had a meeting with Mr. Chaisit Choosong <chaisitc@gmail.com>, from Rajamangala University of Technology Srivijaya last week. Adib  gave him a brief about PingER project, aim, objectives, and its installation requirements.  He is interested to setup a PingER monitoring node at his site. Adib sent another email to introduce Chaisit to Dr. Les and hopefully, Les has followed up with an email on 8/21/2016 with an invitation and information on how to set up the monitor. Adib  will follow  up.

• Adib has written a case study on the Internet performance in ASEAN countries and its implication on the Socio-Economic Indexes.

  Following Prof. Bebo suggestion to find  one of the IEEE journals that have good exposure in Asia. Adib used IEEE Publication Recommender tool and  got a long list of journals within our article scope. However. They have page limits or # words limit. We do not have many choices; here is a short list of most potential ones:
   
  IEEE Technology and Society Magazine: “the scope of IEEE Technology and Society Magazine overlaps most IEEE Publications since we are concerned with the social implications of technology across the wide range of IEEE fields of interests.” http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/aboutJournal.jsp?punumber=44
  Editor-in-Chief
  Katina Michael 
  School of Information Systems and Technology 
  University of Wollongong
  NSW 2522 Australia 
   
  IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/aboutJournal.jsp?punumber=9739
  Editor-in-Chief 
  Ekram Hossain, Ph.D., P.Eng.
  Professor
  Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
  University of Manitoba

UNIMAS

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• Aqsa has completed her research work on "visualization on pingER data" and now working on to publish a conference paper. Here are few details of the research work.

  • The query results can be exported as CSV file. I use the CSV file of Query results from Impala to draw Line and Bar charts by using Google API.

  • She has created a Data warehouse on pingER data. First we transform the pingER text files into CSV files. Then i upload these CSV files on HDFS and populate Impala Tables and queries.

  • Line and Bar charts are created on a webpage running or executed by localhost server. it can be updated as the query results varies.

• Aqsa and Saba are working together. Their goal is focusing on visualization of PingER historical data using warehouse.  The idea is to develop a warehouse in UAF university and make it publicly available. 

• Aqsa has put together an  abstract of a conference paper and submitted to "The 3rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data Science, Engineering and Applications (BDSEA 2016)" (http://computing.derby.ac.uk/bdcat2016/).  "Applying Big Data Warehousing and Visualization Techniques on pingER Data",  Aqsa Hameed, Dr. Saqib Ali, Dr. Les Cottrell and Bebo White, submitted to BDSEA 2016. Authors can access it via:   https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bdsea2016  . Aqsa updated the paper and submitted, the last date for submit is 31st August, 2015. The conference is 6-9 Shanghai.

• Sara Masood - See PingER on Android above

• Saqib will proceed to install Pinger in UAF Pakistan 6/22/2016.There used to be an MA at UAF Les will send sent the information to Saqib. it is below (Is there an update?):

  Code Block

  NODENAME: uaf.seecs.edu.pk IPADDRESS: 121.52.152.22 SITENAME: seecs.edu.pk NICKNAME: PK.UAF.SEECS.EDU.N1 FULLNAME: University of Agriculture, Faisalabad LOCATION: Faisalabad COUNTRY: Pakistan CONTINENT: South Asia LATANDLONG: 31.433741 73.070476 PROJECTTYPE: D PINGSERVER: http://uaf.seecs.edu.pk/cgi-bin/traceroute.pl?function=ping TRACESERVER: http://uaf.seecs.edu.pk/cgi-bin/traceroute.pl? DATASERVER: http://uaf.seecs.edu.pk/cgi-bin/ping_data.pl? URL: http://www.uaf.edu.pk CONTACTS: Ahsan Raza Sattar , COMMENTS: Add by Cottrell 11/5/2012. Host not working as a monitor and not pingable. There is another Monitor in faisalabad, so Disabled by Cottrell 6/26/2014.

MYREN

• He has the userid and password, The IP address will change

MYREN

• pingersonar-usm.myren.net.my was restored to a working state August 4thpingersonar-usm.myren.net.my was restored to a working state August 4th.  pingersonat-utm.myren.net.my is having problems, email sent to Fitzi.

PingER at SLAC

Joao has provided a cronjob to automatically update the PingER hourly data onin tne FTP space. He has also provided for a client to get new data via the web. Needs documenting.

Also has a 4 node cluster with Cloudera manager for Hadoop, Next step are to get impala working for queriesfor Hadoop, Data is also accessible via jdbc. Requires SQL  but Joao will provide an application.

He has been scrubbing date looking at the space and time saved. Looking at nanocubes to study visualization, The hope is to speed up the response time. There have been meeting with various professors in Brazil. He plans to continue work when he returns to Brazil. We need to ensure his account at SLAC is preserved.

 Working on the following hosts to be able to gather data

NUST

• Currently it does not respond to ping pingerqta.pern.edu.pk

  • 271cottrell@pinger:~$ping pingerqta.pern.edu.pk
    ping: unknown host pingerqta.pern.edu.pk

  • [cottrell@pinger ~]$ nslookup pingerqta.pern.edu.pk

    272cottrell@pinger:~$nslookup pingerqta.pern.edu.pk
    Server: 134.79.111.111
    Address: 134.79.111.111#53

    ** server can't find pingerqta.pern.edu.pk: NXDOMAIN

• 274cottrell@pinger:~$ping 121.52.157.157
  PING 121.52.157.157 (121.52.157.157) 56(84) bytes of data.
  ^C
  --- 121.52.157.157 ping statistics ---
  6 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 5625ms

• http://121.52.157.148, responds with the default Apache web page
• http://121.52.157.148//cgi-bin/ping_data.pl? responds (albeit very slowly) with Get Ping Data from sharedw228.b2bhosting.net  Also there is data. 
  • This is a funny hostname. It comes from the system response to the perl commands:

    • use Net::Domain qw(hostname hostfqdn hostdomain);
      my $hostname = hostfqdn();

• The following needs to reflect the new IP address at 121.52.157.148. It is very easy to change the IP address once the Measurement Agent is up and running and responding, in fact the PingER meta data at SLAC was changed in February 2015. However the DNS still points to:

  • Output from: /bin/cat /etc/hosts # Do not remove the following line, or various programs # that require network functionality will fail. 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 121.52.157.157 pingerqta.pern.edu.pk 

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