The Hubble Project at Gnomedex!
Arvind Krishnamurthy and Ethan Katz-Bassett were at Gnomedex today talking about the Hubble Project. No not the telescope, but the Hubble is designed to find Black holes in the Internet. Here is a little about it below
“Hubble is a system that operates continuously to find persistent Internet black holes as they occur. Hubble has operated continuously since September 17, 2007. During that time, it identified 1,260,822 black holes and reachability problems. In the most recent quarter-hourly round, completed at 13:49 PDT, 08/23/2008, Hubble issued 57,163 traceroutes to 1,816 prefixes it identified as likely to be experiencing problems (of 78,772 total prefixes monitored by the system). Of these, it found 911 prefixes to be unreachable from all its vantage points and 872 to be reachable from some vantage points and not others.”
Source: http://hubble.cs.washington.edu/
Ethan Katz-Bassett spoke at the coference talking about how this project works, and what the Hubble has done or had influence to in the Georgia/ Russia Conflict. He also explained that the internet “Is Not a Truck”
You can watch Ethan and more famous/ intelligent speakers at Chris Pirillo’s Website live.pirillo.com. If you would like more information on how you can watch some of your favorite speakers you can go to the Gnomedex website by clicking here. At this website you can also read a full bio on all of the speakers presenting at the conference.
Thanks, Brad
