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- Hafizi Jalil of MYREN joined the meeting. He introduced himself. He has been at MYREN for 1.5 years. He maintains developments for the MYREN network. He has PingER installations at Cyberjaya and UNIMAS. He has more machines, currently running perfSONAR at UMP, UTM, UM and another site. This week he will install PingER and the traceroute servers on these machines. A goal would be to compare and contrast the benefits of perfSONAR and PingER.
- Anjum and Raja have been working on a paper on Geolocation as developed for TULIP. Using an exponential relation between the Directivity (Alpha) and RTT for Pakistan the accuracy is ~ 18Km. Now Raja needs to run for Europe and the US. Meanwhile Raja has got a job and has less time to work on this so it was stalled. Les contacted Raja and Raja agrees it is important to finish the measurements and the paper, and will endeavor to do so. Anjum is currently working on another paper. Once he finishes that, If Raja didn’t find time to complete the results, he will try to see if he can take over and run the code him-self.
- Anjum's contract has been extended for 1 year
- Saqib's contract expired last month, he is back in Pakistan.
- The 2015 ICFA/SCIC report is completed. It is available at http://www.slac.stanford.edu/xorg/icfa/icfa-net-paper-jan15/report-jan15.docx
- Hafizi Jalil will send Les his email address. Les will ask Badrul to add it to the pinger-my email list. Done 2/5/2015, now awaits Badrul.Badrul has added Hafizi and added the ability for Les to manage the list. LA copy of the list is at: Membership of pinger-my
- Johari will add Ibrahim to the PingER contacts list. Done 2/5/2015
Johari has got the OK from the conference organizing committee to hold a colocated PingER/BigData workshop on August 3rd the day before the CITA 2015 (see http://www.cita.my/ an International Conference 4th - 6th August 2015, on transforming Big Data into Knowledge. Johari will provide relevant information to Bebo. Bebo will be able to make a presentation. Also Ridzuan or Ibrahim or Renan have interest in submitting a full paper by March 2nd 2015.
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Bebo arranged a meeting with the Colombia RENATA NREN folks and the minister of IT to discuss the use of PingER in Colombia. There is a web page at: Colombia. Les has sent an email asking them to install pinger2.pl at at least one site in Columbia.
Next meeting
Next meeting: Wednesday Mar 4th 2015 8:00pm Pacific Standard Time, Thursday Mar 5th 2015 9:00am Pakistan time, Thursday Mar 5th 2015 noon Malaysian time, Thursday Mar 5th, 2015 02:00am Rio Standard Time.
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