[Popcon-developers] Data set
Jan Sacha
jsacha at cs.vu.nl
Thu Dec 4 10:35:36 UTC 2008
Hi,
I would be very grateful if someone could direct me further. I don't
know who is the right person to talk to about the popcon data sets.
These data sets will help a lot in our research if we could get them.
Thanks,
Jan
On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 12:01 +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> Forwarding this to the popularity-contest developer list, as I do not
> have time left to assist you, in the hope that someone on the list got
> time to help.
>
> [Jan Sacha]
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm writing to you in connection with the Debian Popularity Contest.
> >
> > At Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, we are doing research on an operating
> > systems for the Grid (www.xtreemos.eu), and we are very interested in
> > the software configurations of nodes in large-scale distributed systems.
> > In particular, we are interested in the correlations between libraries
> > installed at individual nodes.
> >
> > We would be very grateful, if we could use the traces of machine
> > configurations collected in the Debian Popularity Contest for our
> > research.
> >
> > We understand that such traces contain sensitive information, and we
> > are happy to sign any required non-disclosure ageements. We are also
> > happy to work with fully anonymised traces, as we are not interested in
> > any notion of identity. We are open to any additional conditions that
> > may be required for this cooperation.
> >
> > I'm looking forward to hearing from you.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Jan
> >
> > --
> > Jan Sacha - Postdoctoral Researcher
> > Department of Computer Science
> > Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
> > Tel: +31 20 598 7834 Office: FEW P4.40
> > Fax: +31 20 598 7653 E-Mail: jsacha at cs.vu.nl
> > Web: http://www.cs.vu.nl/~jsacha
>
> Happy hacking,
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