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Hassaan Khaliq?, Kashif, Raja, Samad Riaz (SEECS); Saqib+, Aqsa (UOA); Johari+, Nara, Adnan Khan? + (UNIMAS); Abdullah, Badrul, Anjum+, Ridzuan, Ibrahim (UM); Hanan (UTM); Adib+, Fatima (UUM); Fizi Jalil (MYREN); Thiago, Les+, Bebo? + (SLAC).
Note returned to original time on the hour since no longer need to accomodate Johari.
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- Membership of pinger-my in https://groups.google.com
- Aqsa Hameed has been added as of Dec 20, 2015.
- Huffington Post article on PingER and African Internet performance, see http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-tereshchuk/a-giant-leap-in-2016-africa_b_8901556.html
Hassaan reports "I have received revisions on my proposal and these days I am revising my proposal.
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
- Currently, NetApps organizers are in the process of sending NETAPPS2015 proceedings to be indexed in the major indexing services.
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. Once the exam is over we will be setting up "PingER measurement agent at Amity"
Three students have each written a short paper for the 6th International Conference on Cloud System and Big Data Engineering at Amity Jan 14-15, 2016. I have reviewed and made some corrections
443: Analysis and clustering PingER network data
463: Application for the emulation of pinger on Android devices
432: Correlation analysis on Real Time Tab Delimited Network monitoring data
Btech computer science students would be graduating in May 2016. Their visas can be arranged after May 2016.
- Joao a Brazillian student identified by Renan is interested in a 3 month internship at SLAC similar to those completed by Renan and Thiago.
- Await Have letter of Support for Academic Training from his organization.
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- Saqib has a 5 MS students from the Database team
Farah Massoud
Sabah Massoumil working on Linked Open Data (please excuse spelling)
Aqsa Hameed working on big data/analysis of PingER data. The initial idea was to set up a big data/big analysis
Aqsa Hameed has been working with Anjum to look at a project to create a Hadoop/Cloudera PingER warehouse to enable easier, more powerful access to PingER historical data.
Thinking a bit on Aqsa her work appears to be related to the work done by Thiago on PingER warehouse using a cluster/Cloudera/HDFS/Impala earlier this year. In particular see the presentation at NETAPPS2015 (see https://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/download/attachments/123309267/NETAPPS_PRESENTATIONrevLuiza.pptx. Once the paper is published we can also provide her with that (Adib will let us know when this is OK).
Les emailed the relevant people to put them in contact with one another. It appears there is a lot of overlap between what Aqsa proposed as a Masters project and what Thiago has already done. However Thiago's system was mainly a proof of concept and not in production. We need to look at the next steps: Internet access, auto-updating of information in near realtime, production service, maintainable etc. With this in place one could really mine the data looking for all kinds of interesting correlations, clustering, event impacts, comparisons etc.
- Saqib has submitted a project with title "A Fundamental Active Internet Performance Monitoring Framework for Pakistan Education & Research Network (PERN) in University of Agriculture, Faisalabad"
Project is accepted.
working on a project to develop a node using Raspberry Pi 2 and IoT to measure the air and soil quality.
Currently, students are analyzing the project to develop a problem statement for their research project.Saqib has 5 students interested in PingER. In particular in Big Data, Data Mining and Geolocation.
For the GeoLocation Saqib should contact Anjum
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We have been unable to gather data from pingersonar-utm.myren.net.my since September 11th, 2015 pingersonar-utm.myren.net.my. It is pingable however there is no response from http://pingersonar-utm.myren.net.my/cgi-bin/traceroute.pl?function=ping&target=www-wanmon.slac.stanford.edu&options=-i%200.2
NUST
Hassaan reports "I have received revisions on my proposal and these days I am revising my proposal. In the meanwhile, I have also added another student (Anas Abrar) on this project. He is in learning phase and will follow the nodes which are not working. I shall give you an update very soon. "
- Hassaan is very hopeful that if the proposal is accepted then we can easily have a full time RA for the project.
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: "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 [I 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."
Les has Disabled the following Pakistani monitors since they have no DNS name and are not responding by IP address. pinger.numl.edu.pk, pinger.uet.edu.pk, pinger.uob.edu.pk, pinger.usindh.edu.pk.
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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 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.
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| , 5/22/2015, 6/1/2015, 1/4/2016 | Nov 3, 2014, | Host is pingable from SLAC. |
Next Meeting
Next meeting: Wednesday 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
Jan 5, 2015
Hassaan reports "I have received revisions on my proposal and these days I am revising my proposal. In the meanwhile, I have also added another student (Anas Abrar) on this project. He is in learning phase and will follow the nodes which are not working. I shall give you an update very soon. "
- Hassaan is very hopeful that if the proposal is accepted then we can easily have a full time RA for the project.
Hassaan has re-submitted the proposal after revisions. He would like to get Anas Abrar more trained on monitoring operation and then will inform us to add him to the mailing list at http://pinger.unimas.my/pinger/contact.php.
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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