:Draft:IThena
{{Short description|BOINC based volunteer computing project}}
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{{Infobox distributed computing project
| name = iThena
| logo = iThena Logo.png
| logo_size = 300px
| developer = Cyber-Complex Foundation
| released = {{start date |2019|09|26}}
| operating system = Microsoft Windows, Linux
| platform = Cross-platform (BOINC)
| programming language = ANSI C / C++ / Python / PHP
| genre = Computer science, Computer network
| language = English
| status = Active
| performance = 5098.07..{{cite web |url=https://www.boincstats.com/stats/186/project/detail/ |title=iThena.Measurements: Credit overview |publisher=de Zutter W., boincstats.com |accessdate=February 4, 2022}} + 2159.78{{cite web |url=https://www.boincstats.com/stats/197/project/detail/ |title=iThena.Computational: Credit overview |publisher=de Zutter W., boincstats.com |accessdate=February 4, 2022}} GFLOPS
| total users = 465,700 = 360,568{{cite web |url=https://root.ithena.net |title=iThena.Measurements official website |publisher=iThena, ithena.net |accessdate=June 4, 2022}} + 105,132{{cite web |url=https://comp.ithena.net |title=iThena.Computational official website |publisher=iThena, ithena.net |accessdate=June 4, 2022}}
| total hosts = 110,707 = 107,029 + 3,678
|logo_alt=iThena Project|website=https://ithena.net|screenshot=}}
iThena is a volunteer computing{{cite arXiv |title=The Distributed Computing Model Based on The Capabilities of The Internet |last=Swierczewski |first=Lukasz |authorlink=Swierczewski Lukasz (computer science) |date=October 4, 2012 |eprint=1210.1593 |class=cs.NI}} project running on Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC).
Introduction
File:IThena Project in BOINC Manager.png - adding the project to the client from the official BOINC project list]]
The goal of the iThena project is to model the infrastructure of networks of the global Internet as real as possible. This modelling can be done on many levels: routers, PoPs (point of presence) and AS (autonomous systems). The model may have characteristics such as latency, bandwidth, packet loss and others.
The first initiated test activity of the iThena project took place on August 29, 2019. First official message about the project was sent September 26, 2019{{cite web|url=https://root.ithena.net/usr/forum_thread.php?id=5|date=September 26, 2019|title=September 26, 2019: Planned changes in virtualization - First News|website=ithena.net|accessdate=June 21, 2020}}.
On September 10, 2020 the iThena project was placed on the official BOINC project list{{cite web|url=https://boinc.berkeley.edu/projects.php|title=Choosing BOINC projects: Official list of BOINC projects|website=boinc.berkeley.edu|accessdate=September 11, 2020}} of the University of California, Berkeley. On September 11, 2020, David Anderson publishes "Welcome iThena" news on the official BOINC forum{{cite web|url=https://boinc.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=13966|title=BOINC forum news: Welcome iThena|website=boinc.berkeley.edu|accessdate=September 12, 2020}}.
Origin of the project name
Architect & System Administrator
The main architect and system administrator is Lukasz Swierczewski, who was previously the administrator of many other large scale systems (e.g. OProject@Home{{cite web|url=https://www.boincstats.com/stats/138/project/detail|title=BOINCStats: Detailed stats OProject@Home|website=boincstats.com|accessdate=June 21, 2020}}). He graduated from Lomza State University of Applied Sciences in Łomża (Engineer's degree{{cite web|url=https://depot.ceon.pl/bitstream/handle/123456789/1923/praca_inzynierska.pdf|date=2013|title=Engineering Thesis [in Polish]: Symulacja funkcjonalnego systemu kwantowego na równoległych komputerach klasycznych IV generacji|website=depot.ceon.pl|accessdate=June 21, 2020}}), Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin (Master's degree{{cite web|url=https://depot.ceon.pl/bitstream/handle/123456789/13350/praca_magisterska_Swierczewski_Lukasz.pdf|date=2015|title=Master Thesis [in Polish]: Testowanie przypuszczenia Beal'a z wykorzystaniem superkomputerów oraz platformy do obliczeń rozproszonych BOINC|website=depot.ceon.pl|accessdate=June 21, 2020}}) and National Defence University of Warsaw (Postgraduate education). Computer scientist{{cite web|url=https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1091-0257|title=ORCID iD Page|website=orcid.org|accessdate=June 21, 2020}} and programmer supporting open-source software initiatives. Previously mainly programmer in the area of high performance computing systems (HPC) and supercomputers. A member of the Polish Mathematical Society.
Currently, the project is developed by the Cyber-Complex Foundation{{cite web|url=https://www.cybercomplex.net|title=Official website: Cyber-Complex Foundation|website=cybercomplex.net|accessdate=March 14, 2021}}{{cite web|url=https://rejestr.io/krs/866262/fundacja-cyber-complex|title=KRS (National Court Register) Information|website=rejestr.io|accessdate=March 14, 2021}} (place of institution registration: Europe/Poland). The Foundation is also registered as a publisher with the National Library of Poland{{cite web|url=https://e-isbn.pl/IsbnWeb/start/publisher.html?publisherId=38566|title=Contact database ISBN: PL/e-ISBN/38566: Fundacja Cyber-Complex|website=e-isbn.pl|accessdate=January 13, 2022}}{{cite web|url=https://e-isbn.pl/IsbnWeb/onix/summary.html?record_id=10323612|title=Detailed information about the publication with ISBN 978-83-960621-0-9|website=e-isbn.pl|accessdate=April 18, 2022}}{{cite web|url=https://e-isbn.pl/IsbnWeb/onix/summary.html?record_id=10323613|title=Detailed information about the publication with ISBN 978-83-960621-1-6|website=e-isbn.pl|accessdate=April 18, 2022}}. The Digital Library of the National Library of Poland and the general-purpose open-access repository Zenodo{{cite web|url=https://zenodo.org/search?page=1&size=20&q=keywords:%22Cyber-Complex%20Foundation%22|title=Zenodo: Keywords: "Cyber-Complex Foundation"|website=zenodo.org|accessdate=January 13, 2022}} make available the open datasets that result from the iThena project.
Predecessors and similar projects
Historically, the predecessor of iThena is DIMES. DIMES analysed the topology of the Internet. CAIDA (Center for Applied Internet Data Analysis) and RIPE Atlas also has a great contribution to the mapping of the network structure.
Nature of the project
The project has an experimental and research character.
iThena in its area is largely consistent with MASINT (Measurement and Signature Intelligence) - intelligence, which is the analysis of data and information obtained through distributed measurement systems in order to determine all characteristics and other information about the recognized object. However, in this case, the project activity space is cyberspace.
File:IThena Project SectionA Graph 1000x1000.png|Graph - result of distributed measurments performed in iThena Project
File:IThena kiosk Animation (minimal).gif|Simplified iThena Project visualization (animation) available at the address: https://vi.ithena.net
The BOINC clients applications that are launched mapping the network structure of the Internet. The iThena applications{{cite web |url=https://root.ithena.net/usr/apps.php|title=iThena official applications|publisher=iThena, ithena.net |accessdate=June 21, 2020}} in the initial phase of the project are only in NCI (CPU Non-Intensive) mode. They do not make much use of computing resources (CPU time, RAM memory). However, the computer network traffic can be used to a much greater extent. iThena NCI applications map and/or check the availability of individual network nodes using generally known and legal technologies (e.g. ping, traceroute, Iperf, OWAMP{{cite journal|url=https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4656|title=RFC4656: A One-way Active Measurement Protocol (OWAMP)|website=ietf.org|year=2006 |doi=10.17487/RFC4656 |accessdate=June 21, 2020|last1=Shalunov |first1=S. |last2=Teitelbaum |first2=B. |last3=Karp |first3=A. |last4=Boote |first4=J. |last5=Zekauskas |first5=M. }}{{cite web|url=https://software.internet2.edu/owamp/details.html|title=One-Way Ping (OWAMP)|website=internet2.edu|accessdate=June 21, 2020}}).
The data obtained under the iThena project comes from open sources to a key extent. The whole open society of Internet users (including BOINC users) contributes to the implementation and development of the system. The data aggregated within the project will be partially classified as open and made available under an open licenses.
On the basis of data aggregated in the system it is possible to detect network anomalies. This area contains anomalies concerning manipulation of data transmission routes{{cite journal|url=https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/mca/vol3/iss1/7/|title=China's Maxim – Leave No Access Point Unexploited: The Hidden Story of China Telecom's BGP Hijacking|journal=Military Cyber Affairs|date=October 21, 2018|doi=10.5038/2378-0789.3.1.1050 |accessdate=June 21, 2020|last1=Demchak |first1=Chris |last2=Shavitt |first2=Yuval |volume=3 |s2cid=53587672 }} - IP Hijack Attacks and other issues.
It is planned to use distributed nodes for typical computing tasks.
By 24 April 2020, iThena has made about 250 billion distributed measurements.
Project statistics are available, among others, in Free-DC{{cite web|url=https://stats.free-dc.org/proj/ith|title=Free-DC: iThena Project Stats|website=Free-DC|accessdate=June 21, 2020}} and BOINCStats{{cite web|url=https://www.boincstats.com/forum/11/12353|title=BOINCStats Forum thread: New projects :: New (nci) project: iThena|website=BOINCSTats Forum|accessdate=September 11, 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://www.boincstats.com/stats/186/project/detail/|title=BOINCStats: Detailed stats iThena|website=BOINCSTats|accessdate=June 21, 2020}} services.
Although the iThena Project currently mainly implements distributed network measurements, there are modules that are typically computational. A subsystem using OpenHPC technology is such a module. The High-performance computing cluster (installation type: Research) of the Cyber-Complex Foundation was officially registered on March 19, 2021{{cite web|url=https://github.com/openhpc/ohpc/wiki/System-Registry|title=Open HPC: System Registry|website=Open HPC: System Registry|accessdate=May 17, 2021}}. The computing modules are an integral part of the whole system and are fed by measurement data.
iThena in the media
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Information about the project is available in many information resources of many communities (including BOINC teams): seti-germany.de{{cite web|url=https://www.seti-germany.de/wiki/IThena|title=SETI.Germany Wikipedia: iThena project|website=SETI.Germany|accessdate=July 12, 2020}}, bc-team.org{{cite web|url=https://wiki.bc-team.org/index.php?title=IThena/en|title=BC-Team Wikipedia: iThena project|website=BC-Team|accessdate=July 12, 2020}}, and others. A directory page for the project and other resources related to this project is also available in the official CAIDA resource catalog{{cite web|url=https://catalog.caida.org/details/software/ithena|title=CAIDA Catalog Details - iThena|website=CAIDA Resource Catalog|accessdate=April 25, 2021}}.
An Australian programmer, technologist, blockchain expert Delta described in an article{{cite web|url=https://steemit.com/boinc/@delta1512/project-brief-ithena-explained|title=Project brief - iThena Explained|website=steemit.com|date=29 January 2020 |accessdate=January 7, 2022}} on Steemit the measurement principle implemented by the iThena distributed system.
In the Polish magazine Forum Akademickie No. 5/2020{{cite web|url=https://miesiecznik.forumakademickie.pl/czasopisma/fa-05-2020/|title=Forum Akademickie No. 5/2020|website=forumakademickie.pl|accessdate=September 25, 2020}} dealing with research and higher education issues an article was published describing the problems of the iThena project research area. The content of the entire issue of the magazine is available in Polish for free (PDF{{cite web|url=http://doc.ithena.net/FA-05-2020.PDF|title=PDF document: Forum Akademickie No. 5/2020|website=doc.ithena.net|accessdate=September 25, 2020|pages=59–61}} or online website{{cite web|url=https://miesiecznik.forumakademickie.pl/czasopisma/fa-05-2020/globalna-%E2%80%A8siec-komputerowa-przed-i-po-pandemii%E2%80%A9/|title=Forum Akademickie No. 5/2020 - Art: "Globalna sieć komputerowa przed i po pandemii"|website=forumakademickie.pl|accessdate=September 25, 2020}}).The official information about free access to the article was published in September 2020{{cite web|url=https://root.ithena.net/usr/forum_thread.php?id=87|title=Article in the magazine "Forum Akademickie" No. 5/2020: "Globalna sieć komputerowa przed i po pandemii" (only in Polish language)|website=root.ithena.net|accessdate=September 25, 2020}}
A talk entitled "iThena Project: Distributed measurements and analysis of the global Internet – BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing) and Big Data environment"{{cite web|url=https://root.ithena.net/usr/forum_thread.php?id=109|title=LVEE 2020 ONLINE EDITION Conference and iThena Project|website=root.ithena.net|accessdate=January 30, 2021}}{{cite web|url=http://cybercomplex.net/docs/LVEE_2020_ONLINE_EDITION_SWIERCZEWSKI.pdf|title=Presentation: iThena Project: Distributed measurements and analysis of the global Internet – BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing) and Big Data environment|website=root.ithena.net|accessdate=January 30, 2021}} was presented at the LVEE 2020 Winter Edition conference on December 19, 2020.
The project has been mentioned several times on BOINC Radio{{cite web|url=https://boinc.network|title=BOINC Network Official Website|website=boinc.network|accessdate=January 30, 2021}}. Sample broadcast: BOINC Radio - BOINC Network EPISODE 3, 29th January 2021: Sensor Projects{{cite web|url=https://player.captivate.fm/episode/b0554629-2a36-49e1-9965-655c71074bd4|title=Audio: BOINC Radio - BOINC Network EPISODE 3, 29th January 2021: Sensor Projects|website=player.captivate.fm|accessdate=January 30, 2021}}{{cite web|url=https://root.ithena.net/usr/forum_thread.php?id=116|title=iThena Project News: BOINC Radio - BOINC Network EPISODE 3, 29th January 2021: Sensor Projects|website=root.ithena.net|accessdate=January 30, 2021}} and others{{cite web|url=https://boinc.network/boinc-radio/the-private-parts-of-boinc/|title=EPISODE 11, 31st March 2021: The Private Parts of BOINC|website=boinc.network|accessdate=August 1, 2021}}{{cite web|url=https://boinc.network/boinc-radio/boinc-on-vps/|title=EPISODE 9, 18th March 2021: BOINC on VPS|website=boinc.network|accessdate=August 1, 2021}}{{cite web|url=https://boinc.network/boinc-radio/what-isnt-boinc/|title=EPISODE 2, 21st January 2021: What Isn't BOINC|website=boinc.network|accessdate=August 1, 2021}}. On October 24, 2022, an entire radio episode{{cite web|url=https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/boinc-radio-978495/episodes/boinc-radio-project-brief-ithe-150721872|title=BOINC Radio - Project Brief - iThena|website=podchaser.com|accessdate=November 23, 2022}}{{cite web|url=https://podcasts.apple.com/lu/podcast/boinc-radio-project-brief-ithena/id1492837872?i=1000580505988&l=de|title=BOINC Radio - Project Brief - iThena|website=podcasts.apple.com|accessdate=November 23, 2022}} was dedicated to the iThena project.
In the Polish magazine Nowoczesna Myśl Narodowa{{cite web|url=https://www.nowoczesnamysl.pl|title=Nowoczesna Mysl Narodowa Official Website|website=nowoczesnamysl.pl|accessdate=February 7, 2021}} (ang. Modern National Thought) No. 4-5 December 2020 - January 2021 an interview{{cite web|url=https://www.nowoczesnamysl.pl/?smd_process_download=1&download_id=882|title=Nowoczesna Mysl Narodowa No. 4-5 December 2020 - January 2021 - full content in PDF|website=nowoczesnamysl.pl|accessdate=February 7, 2021}} with Lukasz Swierczewski appeared. The interview was conducted independently by the journal's Editorial Board. This interview also touched on the distributed and global iThena project. The creator of the project also mentioned other initiatives related to this project.
Part of the International Open Data Day initiative was an event: "Open.Data HowFaster.NET: Open Internet network measurement datasets"{{cite web|url=https://opendataday.org/events/2021/#open-data-howfaster-net-open-internet-network-measurement-datasets-otwarte-zb|title=Open.Data HowFaster.NET: Open Internet network measurement datasets / Otwarte zbiory danych pomiarów w sieci Internet|accessdate=March 10, 2021}}. The event was held on March 6, 2021, and presented the open data available from the HowFaster.NET project, which is the result of network measurements obtained from the iThena project.
The iThena project is rapidly growing with open-source and advanced Kernel-based Virtual Machine / OS-level virtualization (LXC) environments. The website of major virtualization technology developer Proxmox mentions the iThena project story{{cite web|url=https://www.proxmox.com/en/proxmox-ve/testimonials/item/cyber-complex-foundation|title=Proxmox official websie: Story: Cyber-Complex Foundation|website=www.proxmox.com|accessdate=March 14, 2021}}{{cite web|url=https://www.proxmox.com/images/proxmox/testimonials/2021_03-Cyber-Complex-Foundation-runs-Proxmox-VE.pdf|title=Proxmox official document (PDF): Story: Cyber-Complex Foundation|website=www.proxmox.com|accessdate=March 15, 2021}}
As of early 2022, the iThena project is classified as a marathon in Formula BOINC competition{{cite web|url=https://formula-boinc.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=333|title=Suggested Marathon Projects for 2022|website=formula-boinc.org|accessdate=January 7, 2022}}
As of Q3 2021, the iThena project is integrated into the Open Observatory of Network Interference platform and implements distributed censorship measurements over the Internet{{cite news|url=https://ooni.org/post/2021-ithena-boosts-ooni-measurement-coverage/|title=iThena integration of OONI Probe boosts censorship measurement coverage worldwide|website=ooni.org|date=20 December 2021 |accessdate=January 7, 2022}}. The iThena platform regularly performs measurements on censorship surveys and transfers the analysis results to the OONI systems.
Statistics on the iThena project are also officially, regularly published in the National Library of Poland. The information is stored digitally and on optical media also in the form of legal deposit copies{{cite news|url=https://katalogi.bn.org.pl/discovery/search?query=creator,contains,Cyber-Complex%20Foundation&tab=LibraryCatalog&search_scope=NLOP_IZ_NZ&vid=48OMNIS_NLOP:48OMNIS_NLOP&lang=en&offset=0|title=Catalog of the National Library of Poland - Cyber-Complex Foundation|website=bn.org.pl|date=12 February 2025 |accessdate=February 12, 2025}} at the National Library and the Jagiellonian Library.
See also
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- BOINC
- List of volunteer computing projects
- Virtual volunteering
- Computer network
- Internet backbone
- Computer security
- Computer and network surveillance
- Critical Internet infrastructure
- Global issue
- World community
- Berkeley SETI Research Center
- Open Observatory of Network Interference
- OSU Open Source Lab}}
References
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Sources
- {{cite web|title=iThena|url=https://everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/ithena|author=ithenasystem |website=Everipedia|date=2020-06-21|accessdate=2020-09-27}} [https://everipedia.org/faq/terms-of-service CC-4.0 license]. [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Draft:IThena&oldid=963720429 First revision in Wikipedia] based almost entirely on the 2020-06-21 version of this web site.
External links
- [https://ithena.net Official website]
- [http://boinc.berkeley.edu/ BOINC website]
- [https://cybercomplex.net Cyber-Complex Foundation - Official website of the project developer (NGO)]
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