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Wednesday Feb 10 8Mar 9  8:00pm Pacific Standard Time, Thursday Feb 11Mar 10, 2016  9:00am Pakistan time, Thursday Feb 11 Mar 10 2016 12:00noon Malaysian time, Thursday Feb 11  mar 10 2016 02:00am Rio Standard Time.  

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Attendees

Invitees:

Hassaan Khaliq-,  Kashif Kashif, Raja,  Samad  Samad Riaz (SEECS); Saqib+, Aqsa+ (UOAUAF); Johari+, Nara, Adnan Khan? (UNIMAS); Abdullah, Badrul, Anjum,  Ridzuan, Ibrahim (UM); Hanan (UTM); Adib+, Fatima (UUM); Fizi Jalil- (MYREN);  Thiago Thiago, Les+, Bebo- (SLAC).Note returned to original time on the hour since no longer need to accomodate Johari.

+ Confirmed attendance

- Responded but  Unable to attend: 

? Individual emails sent

Actual attendees:

Saqib, Johari, Les

Aqsa was unable to connect due to network connections

Administration

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

• NETAPPS2015 1-3 December 2015 was very successful, five papers were presented in the PingER session 
  •   Good news from NETAPPS TPC that some of our Pinger team papers are recommended for possible publication in journal JICT (Scopus Index). However, requires 40% new information and to be done by April.
    • Saqib is working on the Malaysian case study and will submit

• 9 students from Amity University near New Delhi in India interested in coming to SLAC.

  • They have gone through the installation instructions for traceroute.pl, ping_data.pl and pinger2.pl. pinger2.pl.   Problem that their web  server appears to be local, see Setting up PingER servers at Amity. No progress 3/9/2016

• Joao a Brazillian student Brazillian student: He has a visa. Letter of invitation is signed and sent to him. Start mid May end Aug 2016

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• Fatimah: she has decided to take one semester off before she pursues her PhD. She is planning to use this semester to explore the area more and finalize her PhD topic. Any suggestions or ideas are welcomed.
• PINGER IPv6: I have one  Practicum student interested to work on PingER IPv6. Based on the information provided in PingER site, “(pinger2.pl) will work with both IPv4 and IPv6”  while “ping_data.pl will need some mods also.” Following our today’s meeting, the student is expected to create ping6_data.pl which will work on flat file (just to be specific). Dr. Les, has suggested to provide an account for us at SLAC to be able to test. In addition, it would be great if we can get some documentation about . Also one for Adib. We are working on this.  Documentation on ping_data.pl so  sent so the student will get clear understanding on how the current system work and this will help him to progress faster.
  
  

UNIMAS

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UAF (Saqib)

Name: Aqsa Hameed

Title: visualization of PingER historical data using warehouse

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Title: PingER Internet Performance Monitoring Agent On Android Device

Status: She sent you & Dr Bebo the mockup screens of the proposed Android Monitoring Agent. She is waiting for your review. Further, she requires web services to get and save PingER data.

Name: Saba Muzamil

There has been a discussion to pin down more closely what is needed, i.e. a PingER Measurement Agent running on an Android making measuremenst to the Beacons, and the ability to upload the data nightly. We will set up a skype group with Topher, Sara, Saqib, Bebo and Les to move forward. See Discussion on porting PingER to Android.

Name: Saba Muzamil

Title: She Title: She is interested to work on Environment that supports the execution of analytical distributed queries in Hadoop Cluster.

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UTM 

Saqib's old supervisor Dr. Md Asri i is agreed to appoint a master student to take of PingER in UTM. Saqib has emailed  3/9/2016?

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 also was looking at RDF. the next step is to use MapReduce to organize and reduce the output of data so can visualize 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. No update 1/6/2016

MYREN

No update 8/12/2015, no Update 9/2/2015. No update Jan 2016. Should we try and revive?  The hosts all look fine. Johari will send email to Fitzi. Adib has a meeting with MYREN will see if he can make contact

NUST

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 [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."

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Adib talked to Fitzi: Basically, all PingER myren monitoring nodes are working properly according to Fizi. nothing much to be done from his side at the moment. Currently, he is fully occupied with some running projects that takes most of his time. But, he is ready to help, in case we need his support.

perfsonar-unimas.myren.net.my is down at the moment, router down (Waiting for RMA.) Fizi is aware of this. 

NUST

Hassaan's student (Mian Anas Abrar <anas.abrar@gmail.com>) reports: "Sir haven't disabled any of them which i told earlier and actually can't even get back to them because of their wrong contact numbers or their numbers not responding since then. I have tried contacting Dr.Les earlier  few time as per your instructions but don't know why i wasn't able to email him. rest the status is actually same nodes being down". We believe we have solved the mail problem.

No responses for over 30 days from

• npm.neduet.edu.pk
• pinger.uettaxila.edu.pk
• pingerisl-qau.pern.edu.pk
• pingerlhr-pu.pern.edu.pk
• pingerpwr.pern.edu.pk
• pingerqta.pern.edu.pk
• quest.seecs.edu.pk
• Sent email to Hassaan 3/1/2016 reqquesting whether we diisable them

PingER at SLAC

Put together a web page on the Fertility Rate and PingER measured Internet performance. The concern is the high Fertility rate in Sub-Saharan which is dominating the global growth in population and could result in over 6B people in Africa and 11B people on the planet by 2100. This puts a huge strain on resources. To reduce the Fertility Rate one needs education and information which is greatly enabled by the Internet. Unfortunately Internet performance is generally at its worst in West, Middle and East Africa where the Fertility Rates are highest. 

• .pk
• pingerqta.pern.edu.pk
• quest.seecs.edu.pk

PingER at SLAC

Preparing a presentation for an NREN conference (BDREN) in Dhaka Bangladesh. Declined invitation to attend after I looked at the time to get there and back and recover. Will present remotelyAlso put together a web page on ways of providing Internet access in hard to reach places, e.g. weather balloons, drones, low earth satellites.

The 2016  annual report on network monitoring is almost ready, it includes a section on PingER.large section on PingER. It is available at: http://www.slac.stanford.edu/xorg/icfa/icfa-net-paper-jan16/report-jan16.docx

 Working on the following hosts to be able to gather data

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Next Meeting

Next meeting:  Wednesday Mar 9th 8Apr 7th 9:00pm Pacific Standard Time, Thursday Mar 10thApr 8th, 2016  9:00am Pakistan time, Thursday Mar 10th 2016 Apr 8th  2016 12:00noon Malaysian time, Thursday Mar 10th 2016 02:00am Rio Standard Time.  

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