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Telekom Malaysia, tested the 500 MBps line from 3rd to 9th of Dec. Hopefully we can gather some info once the data is collected from the PingER monitoring host. No major effect was seen (about a 10-14% improvement in RTT). It is not possible to turn off the traffic shaping. A performance  test would be to set upiperf at NUST and UNIMAS and measure the TCP performance memory to memory. Other measures can be made: using Speedtest (to a Speedtest site as close to UNIMAS as possible to eliminate long RTT challenges again from a browser at UNIMAS.) from a browser at UNIMAS; using an NDT server. 

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Grants

Abdullah raised a question on grant applications. Anjum has sent 3 proposals with significant research components as examples. These need to be reviewed by Nara, Johari, and Abdullah to see how they may be appropriate for the Malaysian eScience program. We will discuss discussed potential research directions . on the last day of the workshop. Notes from the meeting are available. The action items are:

• We will pursue the Exploratory Research Grant for Initial data in order to support setting up three or more PingER monitoring hosts in Malaysia. Potential sites are UM, MYREN, UTM, and UNIMAS. This will the basis of a larger deployment in Malaysia. This in turn will provide end-to-end active current and archival monitoring data. This can be mined for research in:
  • understand the intra-Malaysia end-to-end Internet performance, identifying
    • bottlenecks,
    • poor performance and reasons
    • making recommendations for better performance
  • comparing Intra-Malaysian Internet performance with other regions
  • looking for correlations across multiple routes
  • Identifying anomalies

The infrastructure can also be used to provide landmarks for measuring RTT to target hosts for geolocation research.

Anjum will join by Skype.shared proposals from NUST can be used as input to various proposals.

Johari will review the proposals and put together a draft.

UM

Abdullah has passed the information on PingER to colleagues. There are 2 people who are interested in pursuing. One will be at the MYREN workshop making a presentation. Abdullah will send email introducing the UM KL person. Is there an update?

NUST

From Arshad: Rector has agreed to support one person visit to SLAC. Raja has been nominated. He has sent a cv to Les and has filled out the DoE form. Les is working on the invitation lettercrafted the invitation and it has been sent to upper management for signature Dec 21, 2012.

PingER at SLAC

Les is working on a high level paper on PingER to be included in the IEEE Spectrum, February issue.

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