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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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Atlanta, GA | Posted: January 29, 2009
Google, New America and PlanetLab have joined with academia to launch Measurement Lab (M-Lab), an open platform for researchers to deploy Internet measurement tools. Computing faculty Nick Feamster andConstantine Dovrolis are on the steering committee and are developing tools for the site.
M-Lab was announced during a panel discussion yesterday on "BroadbandTransparency: Network Research, Empowered Users, and Sound Policy" at the New America Foundation in Washington D.C. Theplatform, which promises "Tools for Users, an Open Platform forResearchers and Better Open Data for Everyone," can be found athttp://www.measurementlab.net/.
Initially three tools will be available, running on three servers atone location, and they will be able to support only a limited number ofsimultaneous users. M-Lab organizers say the program will expandquickly, however, and promise a total of 36 servers to be deployedacross 12 locations early in 2009.
Feamster and computing Professor Mostafa Ammar are developing a toolfor the site. Nano will help users automatically detectdiscrimination/neutrality violations in their access ISPs. Dovrolis isworking on DiffProbe, a tool that tries to detect if an Internet accessprovider is classifying certain kinds of traffic as "low priority,"providing it with an inferior level of service. Both Nano and DiffProbewill be available on the M-Lab site soon.
