Fabric Testbed is open and Release 1.7 is available

Dear experimenters,

FABRIC is open for business again. The maintenance is complete.

 The following sites will be showing in maintenance for now:

• UCSD, GPN, CLEM, FIU, EDC

Please read the release notes for Release 1.7 for details but some of the highlights include:-

Control Framework:

• Advanced Scheduling – Users can now schedule their slices in future.
• Explicit Route Options – Users can now specify the exact network path for their Network Services.
• Sub Interfaces – Users can not create VLAN tagged sub interfaces for Smart NICs enabling them to be connected to multiple Network Services.
• Port Mirroring – Port mirroring has been enhanced to support mirroring Basic NICs.
• List Resources enhanced to filter the resource information per host and based on time.

Portal:

• Project related enhancements: added funding, community and matrix link support; added public project list for unauthenticated users to view.
• Resources enhancements: added level-2 data to site detail page to show resource availabilities per worker; added time filter to view future resource data.
• Slice Builder/ Viewer enhancements: users can specify lease start time for future slice creation; FPGA support is added.
• New external tools: Artifact Manager app is available on the Experiments page -> Artifact Manager tab; Public Metrics, Infrastructure Metrics, Optical Data and Latency Monitor are available on the Resources page -> Measuring and Monitoring Tools.

NOTE: Fablib – if you are still using Release 1.6 or older, please update fablib using the command:

pip install fabrictestbed-extensions==1.7.1

Also, if you face issues running notebooks on JH, please ensure there are no entries for fabrictestbed-extensions  in fabric_config/requirements.txt. If you have any entries there, Please remove them and restart your JH container.

Thanks,

Komal

• This topic was modified 4 months ago by Komal Thareja.