[atlas] Request for credits for research - Followup results

Sent 10 million credits.  Good luck.


Darin --

On 4/20/2021 5:19 AM, Nitinder Mohan wrote:
> Dear RIPE community,
>
> I hope you are all safe and sound.
>
> This email is a follow-up to our request for Atlas credits back in 
> September 2020. Following our request, we received an overwhelming 
> response from the community to assist our research by transferring us 
> credits and giving us best wishes for project completion. Today, I am 
> elated to let you all know that we have successfully concluded our 
> project and I would be happy to share the results with all of you.
>
> Our project focused on analyzing the availability and reachability of 
> cloud datacenters across the globe. The motivation for our work 
> stemmed from the lack of any recently conducted global cloud 
> measurement study which can be used for assessing the growth of cloud 
> networks in the past decade. We feel that such an impartial study is 
> not only useful for researchers working in domains such as edge 
> computing, 5G/6G, cloud computing etc. but can also be valuable for 
> folks from industry and for the general public.
>
> Back in 2019 we launched our cloud reachability study, targeting 10 
> major cloud operators (189 compute cloud regions) across the globe. We 
> collected ICMP and TCP pings along with Traceroutes periodically over 
> the Atlas platform. The results from this project has been 
> successfully published in top-tier venues such as ACM HotNets 2020, 
> The Web Conference (WWW) 2021 and IFIP Networking 2021. We release all 
> collected dataset and associated code for public and community use. 
> You can browse/play with our results learn more about the project 
> objectives and download our datasets from here: 
> https://cloudreachability.github.io/ 
> <https://cloudreachability.github.io/>
>
> I would like to thank the RIPE community for being so supportive to 
> our (and generally to) research endeavours. If you have any questions 
> regarding our work, I will be very happy to answer them.
>
> Thanks and Regards
>
> Nitinder Mohan
> Postdoctoral Fellow
> Technical University Munich (TUM)
> https://www.nitindermohan.com/ <https://www.nitindermohan.com/>
>
>> *From:*ripe-atlas <ripe-atlas-bounces at ripe.net> *On Behalf Of *Mohan, 
>> Nitinder
>> *Sent:* 23 September 2020 23:02
>> *To:* ripe-atlas at ripe.net
>> *Subject:* [atlas] Request for credits for research
>>
>> Dear RIPE community,
>>
>> I hope you are all safe and sound.
>>
>> I am a Postdoctoral fellow at the Technical University of Munich, 
>> Germany. We are currently working on an ongoing research project 
>> which aims to analyze the availability and reachability of cloud data 
>> centers globally. The first work of our work will appear in ACM 
>> HotNets 2020 titled "Pruning Edge Research with Latency Shears" 
>> (http://conferences.sigcomm.org/hotnets/2020/program.html 
>> <http://conferences.sigcomm.org/hotnets/2020/program.html>). We are 
>> currently preparing the camera-ready version of the paper and will 
>> share it with the community by hosting it (and the associated 
>> dataset) publicly soon.
>>
>> We are currently planing to submit the second leg of our work to a 
>> conference with submission deadline a month. In order to complete all 
>> set of measurements for required analysis, we are scheduling very 
>> large-scale measurements over the platform which has burned through 
>> almost all our credits and left us in need. I have always found the 
>> RIPE Atlas community to be helpful and generous towards research and 
>> I am hoping that you could support our research by donating us some 
>> of your spare credits. Your help will be highly appreciated.
>>
>> My RIPE account is nitinder.mohan at helsinki.fi 
>> <mailto:nitinder.mohan at helsinki.fi>
>>
>> Thanks and Regards
>>
>> Nitinder Mohan
>>
>> Postdoctoral Fellow
>>
>> Technical University of Munich, Germany
>>
>> https://www.nitindermohan.com/ <https://www.nitindermohan.com/>
>>
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