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  • The draft electronic letters of invitation for Sadia and Amber have been sen, however they had the old dates, we are working on a new pair. sent. Have the hard copies arrived? They have the other docs (DS2019 etc.) Current plan is for arrival April 1st. 
  • Sadia, Amber and Bilal have their SLAC computer and Wiki accounts. Amber had a problem with her Windows password. The new confluence went into operation. It is now working for Amber.
  • Zafar received his DS-2019 on Dec 10 (Fri). Applied for visa on Dec 13 (Mon). Interview date was Jan 3, delayed to Jan 24. Visa accepted now await clearance. He has not recieved his visa yet Any word on visa?. Hope to start mid march.

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  • Pakistani case study is done for the moment. Since I will not be visiting Pakistan in the near future, I have sent an email to Sohail Naqvi of HEC telling him of our case study of Pakistan.  Now we need to work with Arshad to decide how to present the results to PERN/HEC.  Anjum will talk to Arshad today and after today's meeting then will present the  Anjum talked to Arshad. They (who?) will present  the case study to the PERN folks to (when?)  to try and understand the problems. PERN are interested in losses, reachability, and RTT. 
  • They are also interested in perfSONAR throughput measurements. For NUST this was waiting on the 10Mbps link. This had to go thru NUST who rejected the idea. It is too expensive. There is another link for the research purposes which will be split into 2, part for perfSONAR. PERN will deploy perfSONAR at HEC/Quetta. Someone is working on this. The university is close by HEC/Quetta. Hope in 4 weeks to have PingER monitoring node in 4 universities. More of a research project than a deployment project. 
  • HEC wants the ability to view just the Pakistan results. Want a view of whatever we are recording. They can use the map to see the topology. Faisal will look at a new user interface with a Pakistan bias.
  • Zafar has started taking and archiving traceroutes between Pakistani monitoring hosts on a daily bases. We need a user interface to select and view these traceroutes.   I have sent some information.
  • The UETTAXILA to NUST report has been updated. However Zafar stopped the pings. He will re-start so we can get measuremens made when the university is in a stable state. During daytime until 3:30pm when the classes are on, internet access is blocked to the hostels. After 3:30pm it is enabled thus RTT increases. Amber will update her description of how this affects the RTTs.
  • Sadia is working on prm.pl to add alpha and MOS. I have fixed the creatpage.pl problem. An example of the output from the new Sadiahas finished MOS for prm.pl n_prm. pl is at: She is now working on adding alpha.

http://www-iepm.slac.stanford.edu/pinger/prmout/MOS-EDU.SLAC.STANFORD.N3-continent-allyearly.csv Sadia will start on alpha ASAP. Les will rename  Les has renamed n_prm.pl toprm.pl and try tried it out various config files. It works fine.

ICFA Report

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  • With the move to the new host Faisal had to get a new cookie to allow scriptroute to run scripts on the PlanetLab infrastructure. Still needs testing.
  • DESY has been restored to monitoring and a traceroute site. Faisal will add to the TULIP database.
  • Get the MatLab license at SEECS and put up a CGB server using it. Do not have license for MatLab will do on own machines to test and will migrate when have license. Zafar will contact Arshad and Ali. Basically the client will call the reflector with the target. The reflector will return the landmarks and RTTs. The client will then call the CBG/MatLab server with the relevant RTTs, lat/longs etc. Update
  • CBG Bilal went to home time after exams, so far changed CBG to integrate into TULIP. Hoped to get to him by end of last week, when he returns meet on Monday. Update

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  1. Faisal is working with Yee.## Porting backend from perl to python and django.
    1. Moving XML responses to json arrays (parsing)
    2. A Datagrid module to display tests from all the result set hosts for a selected
    3. Ability for datagrid module to share data and calls with map.
  2. Documentation available here https://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/display/IEPM/Google+Maps+for+PerfSONAR
  3. Zafar deployed PerfSONAR at SEECS. It was working and gathering data. However the Network Operations Center at SEECS had to shut it down since it was flooding the network and disrupting normal traffic (education/research). Sent an application to HQ NUST to approve 10 Mbps bandwidth link. The proposal was rejected. Now waiting to utilize 2 Mbps from a 10 Mbps research network link.

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