Hi Nitinder. 

If you haven’t already contact the ripe atlas team and they can lift the limit on the number of nodes used and other restrictions to better allow point in time and frequent testing so if you wanted to see the impact of events that occur in routing during your testing. 

They have been very responsive when I made a similar request and it’s a great use of the resource. 

Regards
Alexander

Alexander Neilson
Neilson Productions Limited
021 329 681
alexander@neilson.net.nz

On 27/09/2019, at 00:59, Mohan, Nitinder <nitinder.mohan@helsinki.fi> wrote:


Dear all,

Greetings from Finland!

I am a Ph.D. student at the University of Helsinki, Finland. I am currently involved in a research project which is taking a critical look at the availability and reachability of datacenters from all (or most of) cloud providers operating worldwide. The project requires me to conduct large-scale PING measurements to compute servers hosted in these datacenters. However, I am a new RIPE ATLAS user and do not have any credits to set up a measurement. Also, unfortunately, the tight timeline of the project makes earning credits over time infeasible.

My only option is now to ask the community to help our research. I would highly appreciate if anyone can generously offer us RIPE ATLAS credits to kickstart our measurements (e.g. 1 million).

My RIPE NCC account is <nitinder.mohan at helsinki.fi>.

Any help would be highly appreciated. 

Best Regards


Nitinder Mohan

Ph.D. student

Department of Computer Science

University of Helsinki

https://www.nitindermohan.com/