Fabric Testbed is open and Release 1.7 is available

[Komal Thareja]

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 5 months ago by Komal Thareja.

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