Date: November 11, 2025
Time: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM ET
Join us on November 11, 2025, from 3:00–4:00 PM ET for the next session in the Stitching Together Innovation with FABRIC Users webinar series. This session will feature Elie Kfoury, who will lead a technical deep dive into Bluefield NICs Experimentation on FABRIC.
Data Processing Units (DPUs) are programmable processors designed to offload and accelerate workloads and data processing, freeing up CPU resources and improving system performance. This webinar will highlight how researchers can leverage DPUs within FABRIC to accelerate experimentation and enable innovative approaches to distributed computing and networking research.
Participants will gain insight into how FABRIC supports DPU integration across testbeds, offering tools for managing high-performance, programmable hardware. The session will explore the role of DPUs in enhancing experiment flexibility, performance, and scalability.
The webinar will include a live demonstration introducing the NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPU and examining its programming models, including the DOCA SDK, P4, and DPDK. Elie will showcase how to set up, run, and monitor DPU-based experiments on FABRIC, providing guidance for configuring resources, managing experiments, and applying the workflow within your own experiment. The session will conclude with a live Q&A segment that will provide participants with an opportunity to engage directly with the presenter, ask questions, and explore how FABRIC can advance their research.
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Presenter
Elie Kfoury
Elie Kfoury is an Assistant Professor in the College of Engineering and Computing at the University of South Carolina (USC). His research lies at the intersection of network programmability, performance, and security, with a focus on P4 programmable data planes, Data Processing Units (DPUs)/SmartNICs, and accelerated packet-processing architectures. As a member of the CILab at USC, Dr. Kfoury develops virtual laboratories and training materials that enhance education and research in high-speed networking, TCP congestion control, programmable switches, software-defined networking, and cybersecurity. He earned his Ph.D. in Informatics from USC in 2023.