Date: November 11, 2025
Time: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM ET
This session featured Elie Kfoury, who led 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 gained insight into how FABRIC supports DPU integration across testbeds, offering tools for managing high-performance, programmable hardware. The session explored the role of DPUs in enhancing experiment flexibility, performance, and scalability.
The webinar included a live demonstration introducing the NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPU and examining its programming models, including the DOCA SDK, P4, and DPDK. Elie showcased how to set up, run, and monitor DPU-based experiments on FABRIC, guiding configuring resources, managing experiments, and applying the workflow within your own experiment. The session concluded with a live Q&A segment that provided 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.