Frequently Asked Questions
Over the last ten months, the FABRIC Leadership Team has fielded a few questions from the many members of the community during calls, webinars, conferences, and the FABRIC Community Workshop. View the compiled list of the frequently asked questions at your convenience.
Round Tables
Based on the feedback from the Community Workshop, the FABRIC Leadership Team is scheduling a series of round tables designed to foster idea exchange. Read more about the two upcoming Round Tables below.
Hackathon
July 27, 2020
Fabric leadership will discuss ideas and best practices for using students to do pen testing and software black box testing on FABRIC.
Industry
October 2020
We will convene industry experts in AI, Machine Learning, IoT, Networking and InfoSec to gather their input about the usefulness of FABRIC for future experimentation.
2nd FABRIC Workshop: Facility Partners
Dec. 2020
Mark your calendars – the 2nd FABRIC Workshop: Facility Partners Workshop will be held virtually in December 2020. Our target audience includes campus IT, regional, national and international research & education networks, major experimental facilities, and supercomputing centers. Our focus will be on the logistics of federation, connectivity, operation, and user support.
FABRIC: Creating a Testbed of Testbeds at PEARC20
July 31, 2020 at 8 AM PST (11 AM EST)
Catch members of the FABRIC team at this year’s virtual PEARC20 conference. Joined by four additional panelists, hear about plans to develop and experiment on the FABRIC testbed; then, ask questions during the Q&A session. Learn more about the session on our website.
Malathi Veeraraghavan
Dr. Malathi Veeraraghavan, member of the FABRIC team, passed away in May of this year. Malathi’s career included many accomplishments and many lives touched. In particular, Malathi made deep contributions to GENI and helped shape the vision for FABRIC; we plan to create a system that would make her proud.