Request for participation: Internet measurement tool at ISI

Hi all,

I got a request from a colleague of mine if I knew sites in the working
area of RIPE (note: not just Europe) that might be willing to participate
in research regarding Internet measurements that ISI is conducting.
Please contact Grig Gheorghiu grig@localhost directly if you are
willing/interested to participate by running their Internet measurement
tool as described below. Also, feel free to forward this mail to people
that you know that might have an interest in this,

David K.
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Grig Gheorghiu writes:
> To: davidk
> Cc: katia@localhost
> Subject: Internet measurement tool
> From: Grig Gheorghiu grig@localhost
> 
> Hi, David
> 
> This is a short desciption of what the tool, called
> topologyd, does:
> 
> The tool, which runs as a daemon, estimates available network
> bandwidth and delay among participating sites. Based on these
> estimates, the tool computes a logical topology connecting the
> participating sites. Logical link costs are currently set to be the
> ratio between estimated bandwidth and delay. The tool has an interface
> that allows the estimates, topology, etc. to be displayed using a web
> browser, such as Netscape. The initial motivation for the tool was to
> propagate updates among replicated sites efficiently and in a
> network-friendly way.
> Software requirements are SunOS and perl. No special privileges
> are required for the account.
> 
> We already have a group of machines across USA running this tools.
> The "master" of the group can be found at http://excalibur.usc.edu:9000.
> It would be very interesting to have some machines in Europe, too.
> Currently there is only one machine in Europe, in Greece (Crete actually).
> 
> Thank you very much,
> Grig Gheorghiu
> 
> P.S. The leader of this project is Dr. Katia Obraczka here at ISI.
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