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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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- 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."
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Fatima presented her work at NetApps. Adib is Fatima still with us?
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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| Host | State | last seen | Status |
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| web.hepgrid.uerj.edu | emails 12/2/2014, 12/8/2014, 2/26/2015, 4/30/2015, 6/1/2015 | Oct 23, 2014 | traceroute.pl works but no response from ping_data.pl |
| pinger.stanford.edu | email 3/14/2015 | Feb 18, 2015 | Works |
| pinger.unesp.br | email 11/28/2014, 5/22/2015, 6/1/2015. | Nov 3, 2014 | Host is pingable from SLAC. |
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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