The FABRIC team hosted three webinars in Q3 and two webinars in Q4 2025 for its user base across two series. Each series is aimed at FABRIC users at different stages in their FABRIC journey.
In this blog, you’ll find descriptions for each series and links to recordings from all of our webinars from July through November. Please stay tuned for upcoming webinars next year, and subscribe to the FABRIC YouTube to ensure you see recordings as soon as they’re uploaded.
Stitching Together Innovation with FABRIC Users
The Stitching Together Innovation webinar series provides a platform for FABRIC users to showcase their projects and share insights into why FABRIC was selected to achieve their goals. This series aims to inspire collaboration, foster knowledge sharing, and illustrate the potential benefits of integrating FABRIC for various experiments.
Low Latency 5G Core Experiments on FABRIC — Stitching Together Innovation Webinar
July 15, 2025
Presenters: K.K. Ramakrishnan (University of California, Riverside), Shixiong Qi (University of Kentucky), Jyh-Cheng Chen (National Chiao Tung University)
The webinar offered an accessible overview of L25GC+, a high-performance 5G core built on the team’s NFV platform, OpenNetVM, showcasing how its shared-memory architecture dramatically reduced control-plane latency and improved overall performance. The session highlighted L25GC+’s 50% reduction in control-plane event times and 2x improvement in data-packet performance during paging and handover, emphasizing its impact on scalability and user experience. With L25GC+ deployed on the FABRIC testbed, the webinar provided initial results from this integration and concluded with an interactive Q&A to help attendees explore how these capabilities can advance their own research.
Programmable Data Plane — Stitching Together Innovation with FABRIC Users Webinar
September 16, 2025
Presenter: Dagim Mindaye, Alfred University
The webinar offered an accessible look at how programmable data planes can extend Kubernetes, with presenter Dagim Mindaye showcasing his work on implementing a Kubernetes load balancer and exploring the QUIC protocol for data center environments. The session highlighted practical use cases and demonstrated how FABRIC’s capabilities make it possible to prototype, test, and refine advanced networking solutions. It concluded with an interactive Q&A, giving attendees the opportunity to engage directly with the presenters and consider how these approaches could strengthen their own research and educational projects.
Bluefield NICs | Stitching Together Innovation with FABRIC Users
November 11, 2025
Presenter: Elie Kfoury, University of South Carolina
The webinar offered an accessible deep dive into BlueField NIC experimentation on FABRIC, with Elie Kfoury demonstrating how Data Processing Units (DPUs) can offload workloads, accelerate data processing, and open new possibilities for distributed computing and networking research. The session highlighted how FABRIC’s support for high-performance, programmable hardware enables researchers to integrate DPUs into their experiments, improving flexibility, scalability, and overall performance. Through a live demonstration of the NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPU—covering programming models such as the DOCA SDK, P4, and DPDK—participants learned how to configure, run, and monitor DPU-based workflows on FABRIC.
Mastering FABRIC: Tips and Tricks
The Mastering FABRIC: Tips and Tricks webinar series is designed to offer existing users information on updates on special features, showcase the latest capabilities, and highlight key features for effectively utilizing FABRIC infrastructure. This series aims to empower existing users with in-depth knowledge and practical insights to optimize their experience with FABRIC.
Exploring FabFed for Cloud Integration — Mastering FABRIC: Tips and Tricks
August 19, 2025
Presenter: Xi Yang, ESNet
This engaging session offered a comprehensive look at how FabFed is transforming multi-platform experimentation by enabling seamless resource instantiation and management across FABRIC, CloudLab, and Chameleon. The presentation highlighted how FabFed’s growing support for NSF cloud and public cloud integration is expanding what researchers can deploy, underscoring its increasing value for those designing diverse and scalable experiments. Xi Yang then guided attendees through a live demonstration using a shared artifact package, showcasing step-by-step deployment workflows and novel cloud integrations, before concluding with key resources to help FABRIC users take full advantage of federated testbed capabilities.
GPU Nodes on Federated Testbeds Workflow – Mastering FABRIC: Tips and Tricks Webinar
October 21, 2025
Presenter: Benjamin Formby, Clemson
This engaging session offered a comprehensive look at how FABRIC enabled testbed administrators and AI researchers to connect and scale GPU resources across multiple platforms. The presentation highlighted how FABRIC’s seamless integration capabilities supported efficient, adaptable workflows for AI research, underscoring its critical role in resource orchestration and GPU-based experimentation. Ben Formby led a live demonstration of the GPU Nodes on Federated Testbeds Workflow, providing an in-depth walkthrough of deployment steps, management techniques, and advanced integrations that helped participants understand how to apply these tools within their own projects.