The FABRIC team is excited to announce upcoming programming from PI Paul Ruth and FABRIC users at 2025 Supercomputing conference (SC25).
FABRIC is an infrastructure designed to explore impactful new ideas that are impossible or impractical with the current Internet. FABRIC’s goal is to enable rapid prototyping and validation of new network and distributed computing methods and applications that leverage novel technologies that are not accessible, programmable, or at sufficient levels elsewhere.
Those interested in learning more about FABRIC will be able to visit RENCI’s booth (#4424) and hear updates to the project. FABRIC PI Paul Ruth will present talks at the booth on November 18 and 19, accompanied by various FABRIC users. User presentations will vary by day, and include:
- Joint NRP and FABRIC Kubernetes Experiments with FabFed and SENSE | Mohammad Sada, San Diego Supercomputer Center
- Policy-aware distributed Vertical Federated Learning infrastructure | Alexandros Koufa, University of Amsterdam
- LLM-Based Optimization Algorithm Selection for High-Performance Networks Orchestration | Anestis Dalgkitsis, University of Amsterdam
- Bluefield-3 Data Processing Units (DPUs) on FABRIC | Elie Kfoury and Jorge Crichigno, University of South Carolina
- Examples of FABRIC extensions: by researchers, for researchers | Nik Sultana, Illinois Institute of Technology
FABRIC at INDIS 2025: Panel on Integrated Infrastructure
FABRIC will be represented on November 16 at 10:30 AM ET at the SC Theater on the exhibit floor as part of the 2025 INDIS Workshop. PI Paul Ruth will share FABRIC updates from the past year and explore the network innovations needed for the emerging AI, Super- and Quantum Computing facilities in the context of the mission infrastructures and American Science Cloud with other panelists.
FABRIC Facility Ports and NRE Demos
Beyond Booth #4424, we’re excited to announce that there will be FABRIC facility ports at SCinet at several booths this year in addition to RENCI, including:
- StarLight | Booth #3131
- California Institute of Technology / CACR | Booth #3224
- CIENA | Booth #3330
Network researchers and professionals from government, education, research, and industry were invited to submit proposals for Network Research Exhibition (NRE) demonstrations and experiments that display innovation in emerging network hardware, protocols, and advanced network-intensive scientific applications. A number of them will be using FABRIC services, including:
- Multi-Resource Cyberinfrastructure Services for Science Domain Workflows via SENSE
- Prototype 1.2 Tbps WAN Services: Architecture, Technology and Control Systems
- In-network payload classification on streaming scientific data
- IRI Compute Job Portability
- Real-Time In-Network Machine Learning and P4 Testbed Deployment on FPGA SmartNICs, DPUs, and Switches
- Advanced capabilities in high-bandwidth research networks
- A Next Generation Multi-Terabit/sec Campus and Global Network System for Data Intensive Sciences// The Global Network Advancement Group Data Intensive Science and AutoGOLE/SENSE Working Groups
- GP4L – Global Platform For Labs
Traveling Ciena Node
Ciena has worked in partnership with FABRIC to construct a mini-FABRIC node, known as a “Traveling Fabric Node”. This FABRIC node is designed to be mobile and will be used to support demonstrations, presentations, and experiments at various events and conferences such as Supercomputing, Optical Fiber Conference, and others.
This Traveling Ciena FABRIC node will be located in the Ciena booth (#3330) on the SC25 Exhibit floor. This deployment will include connections thru SCinet and leverage the extensive wide area connectivity engineered into SC25 to connect back to the FABRIC terabit core and associated globally distributed infrastructure. The node provides high-speed connectivity, delivering compute and R&E routed connectivity at 400Gb/s, making it possible for researchers and experimenters to conduct large-scale projects. Nine network research exhibitions (NREs) from institutions including Caltech, ESnet, Northwestern University, University of Chicago, and University of California San Diego will utilize tfNode resources for demos, including high-speed connectivity and compute resources.
Additionally, researchers from the University of Amsterdam will be conducting demonstrations that run on FABRIC at the Ciena Booth throught the week. These demonstrations will show how privacy-preserving orchestration and policy driver data sharing lead to higher SLA (Subscriber Agreement) compliance and enhanced federated Machine Learning computations.
If you are interested in learning more about FABRIC at SC25 or connecting with FABRIC team members or users, please contact Jayasree Jaganatha.