[Popcon-developers] Data set

[Jan Sacha]

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,