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Tan and Imran at Unimas and Les & Bebo in the Bay Area. Nara was unable to be present he was in KL on an official assignment.

UNIMAS PingER host name

Can we get a DNS name for 49.50.236.98? It is possible, UNIMAS have to talk to person in charge of DNS. They hope to do this next week. The suggested name is pinger.unimas.my.

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See https://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/display/IEPM/ePingER+Project

In the longer run there There is also interest in ePingER, e.g. for other major sites in Malaysia and even the Kelabit highlands where its low power requirements and low cost together with the ability to host applications such as a web accessible PingER monitoring station, could be very advantageous to quantitatively study the network performance, and provide reports for decisions makers and funding agencies on how to improve the network.

Les will provide provided information on the hardware to purchase. Looking at https://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/display/IEPM/ePingER+Project it says:

The initial two machines were alix2d2 (see http://www.pcengines.ch/alix2d2.htm) modelsImage Removed purchased from PCEngines (see http://www.pcengines.ch/alix.htm) locatedImage Removed in Switzerland. The cost is about $110/machine. The machines purchased each have 256MB RAM, on a 500MHZ AMD Geode CPU, with 128KB L2 cache, and a 4GB Flash memory. They have 2 USB and 2 Ethernet interfaces. there is more information at the PCEngines site.

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Since Nara was not available we left this agenda item to a future meeting. Nara reported by email he will provide feedback on funding when he gets back and meet with his VC. He hopes to do so by next week.

From previous notes:

Students have a local superviser in Kuching. We start with a couple of graduate students interested in network monitoring.

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  • A next step is to further engage the UNIMAS vice chancellor. Nara has already talked with the VC, The VC was unable to make this Skype meeting, but we will need to set one up for him to meet with the SLAC end. this would be a good time to discuss resources etc.
  • Les has sent some ideas for projects/tasks. A first cut is available.

Next meeting

Proposal: in In 2 weeks time on Thursday 19th July 8pm Pacific Daylight Time, Friday 630th 20th July 11am.

Future

Are there resources and what for:

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