KWSN Orbiting Fortress

Blurf · Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 4:23 pm Post subject: New Project--Surveill@Home

Just to mention a new project: Surveill@Home (http://surveill.dei.uc.pt/surveill)

Surveill@Home is a research project that uses Internet-connected computers to conduct end-to-end fine-grained monitoring of web sites.
The aim of the project is to deploy a large infrastructure to support thousands of probes monitoring the Internet.
Each probe repeatedly performs a pre-defined set of web transactions on web-sites, performing active web monitoring from the last mile.

The proposed approach allows us to obtain important results on end-user visible failures and performance statics.
With the help of the volunteer community we will achieve this ambitious goal.

We are welcoming BOINC users who want to participate in our initial monitoring effort.

Thanks for your support.
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Plomos · Prince Joined: 26 Apr 2011 Posts: 859

their upload/download server is currently disabled according to http://surveill.dei.uc.pt/surveill/server_status.php

So the point of this project is to spy on websites? Shocked

EDIT: Also there is not a Knights team for this yet
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Killerrabbit · Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 11:18 pm Post subject:

Sounds hunky and not in the good way.

Ni
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Sir Papa Smurph · Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 11:22 pm Post subject:

umm..............Pass Confused

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Altivec · Knight Joined: 13 Aug 2003 Posts: 88 Location: Hawaii

Same here, don't think so. Moving on.
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Killerrabbit · Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2011 9:37 am Post subject:

Wow even a project the Knights will not attempt. Then that mean it must be really kinky and not in a good way.

Ni
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Clark · Prince Joined: 07 Mar 2006 Posts: 1448

Sounds a bit Big Brother-ish to me.

Maybe someone should sign up, create a KWSN team, crunch one WU and quit.
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Blurf · Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2011 3:22 pm Post subject:

It's down already
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Gemjunkie · Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2011 5:01 pm Post subject:

Being mentored by Milkyway?

I suppose whoever's in charge of such things should form a KWSN team there to prevent someone else from preempting it.

#ni-1

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Clark · Prince Joined: 07 Mar 2006 Posts: 1448

Hope you don't mind but I just created a team there.

No plans on doing any crunching though - not that I can. upload/download server isn't working
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Plomos · Prince Joined: 26 Apr 2011 Posts: 859

Not to worry, i got like 9 credits and then detached from the project. Just added myself to the team so we could say we tried it. Although at this point it won't even show on the stats because the admins have not made the required files public so people like Bok can add them to stats sites
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PhastPhred · Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2011 1:19 pm Post subject:

Is this kinda like Majestic 12, but for BOINC? What's the deal?

As for RADIOACTIVE@home, I grow tired of WUs and no credits...

:GrumbleMumbleGripe:
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Gemjunkie · Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2011 5:02 pm Post subject:

Killerrabbit · Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2011 9:30 pm Post subject:

For Radioactive@Home you only get credit two ways. You detect radiation. Or you someone grunt force the WU back and getting credit.

I do not suggest the second way it is not fun.

Ni
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Nuadormrac · Prince Joined: 13 Sep 2009 Posts: 506

Clark · Prince Joined: 07 Mar 2006 Posts: 1448

It's as bad as the ones generating rainbow tables for password hacking.
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