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Hassaan Khaliq?,  Kashif, Raja,  Samad Riaz (SEECS); Johari+, Nara, Adnan Khan (UNIMAS); Abdullah, Badrul, Anjum,  Ridzuan, Ibrahim? (UM); Hanan,  Saqib (UTM); Adib, Fatima (UUM); Fizi Jalil (MYREN);  Thiago, Les+, Bebo- (SLAC).

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? Individual emails sent

Actual attendees:

 Anjum, Les

Administration

• Membership of pinger-my in https://groups.google.com

• Hassaan reports "I have received revisions on my proposal and these days I am revising my proposal. 

  • IN In the meantime he has also added another student (Anas Abrar) on this project. He is in learning phase and will follow the nodes which are not working. He shall give us an update very soon. 

  • He is  very hopeful that if the proposal is accepted then we can easily have a full time RA for the project.

  • However, Anjum points out it may take a while to get acceptance and funding (e.g. 6 months)

• NETAPPS2015 1-3 December 2015 was very successful, five papers were presented in the PingER session 
  
  • PingER Malaysia-Internet Performance Measuring Project: A Case Study, Saqib Ali, R. Les Cottrell, Anjum Naveed, presented at NetApps2015, Dec 2015 
  • Applying Data Warehousing and Big Data Techniques to Analyze Internet Performance, Thiago Barbosa, Renan Souza, Sergio Serra, R. Les Cottrell presented at NetApps2015, Dec 2015 
  • Worldwide Internet performance measurements using a Raspberry Pi, presented at NetApps2015, Dec 2015.  Also a video.
  • Adaptive Geolocation of Internet Hosts, Raja A. A. Khan, Anjum Naveed, R. Les Cottrell presented at NetApps2015, Dec 2015
  • Survey on Big Data Indexing strategies, Fatima Bintu Adama, Adib Habbal, Suhaidi Hassan, R. Les Cottrell. Bebo White, Ibrahim Abdullahi.

• 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. 

  • Three students have written a short paper for confluence. I will send it as early as possible.

  • Once the exam is over we will be setting up  "PingER measurement agent at Amity"
    

• Joao a Brazillian student identified by Renan is interested in a 3 month internship at SLAC similar to those completed  by Renan and Thiago.
  • "IIE took some time to send me the information I asked, but now I think I have all I need. They sent me an e-mail two days ago with the informations about academic training and they will send me another e-mail as soon as my Letter of Support is avaiable. The academic training verification form is already avaiable, however they asked the students to wait for the upcoming webinar where they will give instructions about the academic training and how to fill the academic training form. As soon as my form is complete, I will need your signature in it. Also, I´m sending you my health insurance document attached in this e-mail." 

Geolocation Anjum, 

• This is a proposed project for one of the Indian students.

Android - Bebo 

Bebo has set up a Github codebase  as a new project. It contains the PingER MA (pinger2.pl and the traceroute/ping server).Anyone  needs to sign up for a Github account (if you don't already have one), so you can be added as a project member.

• slac-pinger/pinger created by topherwhite.  PingER project https://github.com/slac-pinger/pinger
• Now we have it we can share with Amity to check it works.

Saqib

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• • Anjum reports there was a huge crowd from 15 countries, it provided good publicity for PingER. In particular there was interest from Jordan and Sri Lanka and a person in UUM
    • After NETAPPS, Adib received several requests from undergraduate students to do their internship (practicum) on PingER related projects.  Hopefully, at least two of them will get the school approval and they will be placed in UUM InterNetWorks lab under my supervision. The internship will start in Feb and the proposed project is PingER IPv6. In addition, one network engineer from HP was very interested in PingER. After a short discussion with him, he has decided to pursue his master study and work on project related to PingER. I have shared PingER future projects link with him and currently he is waiting for an official letter of admission as a master student. The topic is not yet decided and open to our group to suggest.
      
  • Unfortunately Anjum and Saqib were unable to link up since Saqib was only able to be present on the last day.
  • 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 written a short paper for confluence. 

    • Analysis and clustering PingER network data

    • Application for the emulation of pinger on Android devices

    • 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.

  • Jahin Majumdar ( Btech computer science student) already has an 5 year F1 student Visa for University of Florida since he will be completing his 8th semester in that university. He will be completing his semester at Florida in May as well

• Joao a Brazillian student identified by Renan is interested in a 3 month internship at SLAC similar to those completed  by Renan and Thiago.
  • "IIE took some time to send me the information I asked, but now I think I have all I need. They sent me an e-mail two days ago with the informations about academic training and they will send me another e-mail as soon as my Letter of Support is avaiable. The academic training verification form is already avaiable, however they asked the students to wait for the upcoming webinar where they will give instructions about the academic training and how to fill the academic training form. As soon as my form is complete, I will need your signature in it. Also, I´m sending you my health insurance document attached in this e-mail." 

Geolocation Anjum, 

• This is a proposed project for one of the Indian students.

Android - Bebo 

Bebo has set up a Github codebase  as a new project. It contains the PingER MA (pinger2.pl and the traceroute/ping server).Anyone  needs to sign up for a Github account (if you don't already have one), so you can be added as a project member.

• slac-pinger/pinger created by topherwhite.  PingER project https://github.com/slac-pinger/pinger
• Now we have it we can share with Amity to check it works.

Saqib

• 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

  • 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). 

      Further we are working on repeating the interns at SLAC of Renan and Thiago with another Brazilian student Joao this coming year.  Thus maybe we can provide some continuity of effort.

    •  Les will email the relevant people to put them in contact.

• 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

• 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  presented her work at NetApps.

UUM

Fatima  presented her work at NetApps. Fatima has passed her master oral examination (Viva) with minor correction and she is submitting her final dissertation coming Sunday to UUM school of computing. Indeed, we are very grateful to PingER team members support and help. Currently, Fatima is planning to pursue her PhD and possibly on a topic related to her master dissertation. We need PingER team suggestion and advice before we can decide on the topic. I will attend next meeting to further discuss on this.

UM

Ibrahim has extracted the  PingER Zip manually. He is reconstructing 11Gb of data, has 15GBytes of data there. He is trying to use SPAR to classify the data. He alsop was looking at RDF. the next step si to use MapReduce to organize and reduce the output of dataso can vizualize it. He will be using a the same techniques he used for looking at 1996-2006 weather data.  However at the moment he cannot access his  VMs from myren for the last two weeks, even for the myren site, He has emailed  them but till now they have not fixed the issue.  He has updated all his data in their cloud. 

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UTM

Johari has had no respond response from UTM so far. Not sure whether they still want to be in the project. Last straw, need to contact someone from the network group so that they understand and appreciate the Pinger project

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Next Meeting

Next meeting:  Wednesday Jan6th Jan 6th 8:00pm Pacific Standard Time, Thursday Jan 7th, 2016  9:00am Pakistan time, Thursday Jan 7th 2016 12:00noon Malaysian time, Thursday Jan 7th 2016 02:00am Rio Standard Time.  

Old Items

• Oct 2015. Following the last meeting, Anjum, Hassaan and Les met to discuss the way forward. 

  • "Adnan currently is unable to find resources for handling the project. Similarly, there is no progress on hiring of a full time RA by NUST HQ. 
  • However, I (Hassaan) checked from HEC about the proposal that I submitted last year. They have informed me that 2 reviewers have asked for revisions while they are waiting for the third review. I am very hopefull about it. If the proposal is accepted then we can easily have a full time RA for the project. I have plans to talk to Dr. Zaidi about hiring an RA on assuming that our proposal will be accepted by HEC. We can then get his salary deducted later from the HEC project. I shall update you very soon in this regard." 

  • Hassaan is  waiting to hear from HEC about the comments on the proposal. 

  • Moreover, he has asked a student to work on the project for the time being. His name is Mian Anas however he will need few weeks to understand the project. 

• Thiago completed setting up the  PingER data SQL Impala warehouse running on a Nebula/Cloudera cluster using the Hadoop File System (HDFS). Unfortunately it is not currently accessible from outside SLAC. There have been several attempts to provide outside access, but no success yet, we need to engage the subject matter experts. Thiago is now a SLAC associate so he still has an account at SLAC. There was a cyber security alert on the version of java installed with Cloudera. Les has replaced the cloudera version of java which should fix the vulnerability. However the new version has not been tested.

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