Preparing annual ICFA report

In progress, due January 2010.

• Case study on Pakistan: assisting with getting monitoring hosts on line, provided table of Pakistani monitoring site to monitored site at SLAC and SEECs
• Case study on sub-Saharan Africa updated

TULIP

• New front page for TULIP
• Provided management of landmarks: map, enable/disabled, laundering (to overcome instability of landmarks), added landmarks from perfSONAR
• Submitted paper: evaluation of various geometric methods, effectiveness by region, variable alpha, landmark requirements

PingER

• Increased number of active PingER monitoring hosts from about 45 to 55 with about 8 more about to come online. This is partly to add extra monitoring hosts for the Pakistani case study and to provide added TULIP landmarks. Adding hosts in Pakistan, Egypt, Malaysia.
• Case studies: updated sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and TEIN3 (India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka), Chilean Earthquake
• Case study for Pakistan: setting up monitoring hosts, defining a front page, added a matrix of Pakistani monitoring to monitored hosts at SLAC and SEECs

perfSONAR

• Two year DoE funding for eCenter project
• Google maps for perfSONAR

Presentations

• Monitoring the World's Networks, Harvey Newman and Les Cottrell, Slides prepared for CHEP10, in Taipei, Taiwan October 2010
• Collaborative DOE Network Monitoring, Yee-Ting Li, DoE Annual Review, LBNL, October 5-6 2010.
• African Internet Performance, Fibres and the Soccer World Cup, Les Cottrell, lecture presented at SPACE Weather School: Basic theory & hands-on experience, University of Helwan / Egypt, Sept 18 – Oct 3, 2010
• International Committee for Future Accelerators - Standing Committee on Inter-Regional Connectivity (ICFA-SCIC) 2010 Report on Networking, compiled by Les Cottrell, Fahad Satti, Shawn McKee and Umar Kalim on behalf of the working group, January 2010.