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- Les is trying to clear space to visit SEECS in February. Current plans are to arrive 2/13/2011, and leave the on the 2/22/2011. He has all the info for visa request, needs to send it in.
- The draft letters of invitation for Sadia and Amber have been submitted to upper management at SLAC.
- Sadia, Amber and Bilal should have their SLAC computer accounts
- What about Wiki accounts?
- They need to learn to learn Perl. Zafar explained PingER and PerfSONAR projects in a nutshell to Amber and Sadia.
- Zafar received his DS-2019 on Dec 10 (Fri). Applied for visa on Dec 13 (Mon). Interview date was Jan 3, it has been delayed to 26 Jan.
- Adnan Kiani has just been introduced to the PingER project. .
- Arshad is at SLAC. he will meet SLAC's director, OCIO and team, communications people, Yee, Faisal, Les
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- Amber is working on the Pakistani Case study.
- We need to start taking and archiving traceroutes between Pakistani monitoring hosts on a regular bases. This is still pending, will set this up asap, PROGRESS?
- There is an explanation for differences at the end of the year. A summary of the case study will go in the ICFA report.
- Large RTTs seen between Islamabad and UETTaxila. See https://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/display/IEPM/SEECS+to+UET+Taxila+link Amber makimg gar[h 24-30 Dec 14 plots (7 plots for RTT and 7 for loss for SEECS to UETaxilapacket loss on on 1 fig, the x - axis and y- axis values are overwriting. The graph data is read. Using MatLab, Excel not able to do. Will post on the Wiki.
- Running long series of pings (1 week, 10 pings every 10 minutes). Amber will generate graphs to uncover the trends. UPDATE?Zafar has written some script and has some data, he needs to put into a format for Amber.
- Amber will need to get up to speed on Linux. She knows something about
- Need to get TCP configuration parameters for transmit and receive buffer lengths at end sites, and also at edge routers. UPDATE?. Adnan talking to Zishan to get an update to see if he has talked to people.
- Need table of monitors vs remote sites for Pakistan. Do for a typical month, e.g. November. Amber will include this in the case study.
- Need a trend plot Jun-Dec 2010. - PROGRESS?
- Need number of hosts etc, see https://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/display/IEPM/Results+for+2010. Add this to Pakistani case study.
- Look at NUST trends over last year, who has improved PERN,
- Look at RRD event detection based on thresholds and how to extend, maybe adding plateau algorithm. Umar's algorithm not work in a predictable manner.
- Sadia is looking at adding MOS and alpha into pingtable.
ICFA Report
- Progress on ICFA Report 2011, next steps - Zafar
- Amber has already a summary of the Pakistani Case stuidy
PingER
- I have extended ping_data.pl to provide more debugging capabilities, based on experience with UERJ, AMPATH and ACME.
- No progress on a monitor in Sarawak. It was using Linux selinux that blocks pings & traceroutes. That has been disabled. Now the webserver is down
- Fahad made some small changes to http://www-wanmon.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-wrap/checkremote.cgi. He will add some help and also an allyearly tick. It looks quite useful.
- I am putting together a talk on "Quantifying the digital Divide: the emergence of Africa" for the American Physical Society in April.
- PingER archive site: Database ERD being currently designed and tested. This is given to a couple of students, Zafar is looking after them. About a month back they were given the task. Adnan will look into a provide feedback. Umar talked to the 3 students. One is interested in taking it up as a final year project. Would require revising the scripts that work with the flat files.
Visualization pinger map - Faisal
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