Łukasz ŚwierczewskiChairman of the Board
Co-Founder
Cyber-Complex
Foundation
lswierczewski@cybercomplex.net

www.cybercomplex.net

DISTRIBUTED MEASUREMENTS AND ANALYSISOF THE GLOBAL INTERNET - BOINC (BERKELEY
OPEN INFRASTRUCTURE FOR NETWORKCOMPUTING) AND BIG DATA ENVIRONMENTLVEE 2020 ONLINE EDITION
19.12.2020

Presentation program:
1. BOINC➢ What is BOINC? What projects do we have? What initiatives do wehave? Old topic...
➢ The idea of volunteer cooperation.
2. iThena – Distributed BOINC Project
3. Internet Analytics
4. Elastic Ecosystem – BIG data solutions
5. Howfaster.Net portal as result
6. Summary. Questions?

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BOINCThe Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing(BOINC) is an open-source middleware system for volunteer
computing and grid computing. Originally developed to support
the SETI@home project, it became generalized as a platform forother distributed applications in areas as diverse as mathematics,
linguistics, medicine, molecular biology, climatology,
environmental science, and astrophysics, among others. BOINC
aims to enable researchers to tap into the enormous processing
resources of multiple personal computers around the world.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Open_Infrastructure_for_Network_Computing
BOINC project website: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/
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BOINCLVEE and FOSS Lviv presentations (historical - years: 2012-2015 ):1. Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing - an open distributed computing system
2. International system of nuclear gamma-ray detection using dedicated hardware sensors - Radioactive@Homeproject3. Simulation of Grover's algorithm on parallel computers with shared memory and using the Olib library
4. OProject@Home - distributed computing
5. Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing — an open distributed computing system
6. Steganography - coding and intercepting the information from encoded pictures in the absence of any initialinformation
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4BOINC - Community
BOINC Stats: https://www.boincstats.com
Free-DC Stats: https://stats.free-dc.org/stats.php?page=index
Many, many open projects
List of BOINC projects on the official UC Berkeley website:
https://boinc.berkeley.edu/projects.php
And many other projects that are not on the official list...

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5iThena Project - part of the global BOINC platform
The iThena distributed project concerns experimental mapping of network structures
included in the Internet. The project is in closed beta phase. Currently, the only
application available in the project (iThena CNode) performs a sequence of tracerouteprocedures from client computers. The resulting data is sent back to the server andsubmitted to the main database, where it can be further analyzed.

Total no. of users: 28398 (date: 19.12.2020)
Total no. of hosts: 37495 (date: 19.12.2020)
Project website: https://ithena.net
Simple data visualisation: https://vi.ithena.net/
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6Website: ithena.net
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Simple data visualisation:
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Simple visualization of the distribution (geo) of iThena Project users
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9Project - simple flow schema

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10Elasticsearch and Elastic Stack - BIG Data environment
Elasticsearch is a search engine based on the Lucene library. It provides a distributed,
multitenant-capable full-text search engine with an HTTP web interface and schemafree JSON documents. Elasticsearch is developed in Java. Following an open-corebusiness model, parts of the software are licensed under various open-source licenses(mostly the Apache License), while other parts fall under the proprietary (sourceavailable) Elastic License. Official clients are available in Java, .NET (C#), PHP,Python, Apache Groovy, Ruby and many other languages. According to the DBEngines ranking, Elasticsearch is the most popular enterprise search engine followed
by Apache Solr, also based on Lucene.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elasticsearch
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Website: https://howfaster.net

Number of:
AS: 6396
Country: 238
Regions: 3078
City: 6307
Measurments: 27632107
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