The two-day workshop will take place October 14 – 15, 2025 in Salt Lake City, UT
KNIT11, the next FABRIC Community Workshop, will take place October 14 – 15, 2025 in Salt Lake City, UT. This engaging two-day event offers a dynamic mix of activities designed to deepen your knowledge of FABRIC, connect with fellow researchers, and contribute to the future of this innovative platform. The theme of the workshop is “Powering Discovery: FABRIC Across the Sciences.”
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.
The event offers a unique opportunity to connect with FABRIC users from across the world, find pathways to collaborate, and help shape the future of the testbed. KNIT workshops are ideal for a wide range of users and stakeholders:
- Researchers exploring networking, distributed computing, storage, cyberinfrastructure, machine learning, or related fields who want to leverage FABRIC’s scale and flexibility.
- Newcomers curious about what FABRIC offers and how to get started with experiments.
- Experienced experimenters looking to share their work, get feedback, and discover new collaboration opportunities within the FABRIC community.
The agenda includes a panel featuring researchers working across multiple scientific domains, a demo night spotlighting live experiments from current users, and multiple tutorial and talk tracks that attendees can choose from depending on their experience level.
Notable sessions include:
- Catalyzing an Innovation Ecosystem for Responsible AI (Manish Parashar, University of Utah): Artificial intelligence (AI) has become an essential engine for innovation and scientific discovery. However, realizing this positive and transformative potential requires a transdisciplinary innovation ecosystem that can ensure research and development progress responsibly. In this talk, Manish will discuss innovation ecosystems for responsible AI and our efforts within the State of Utah towards catalyzing such an innovation ecosystem. Specifically, he will introduce the University of Utah’s One-U Responsible AI Initiative, as well as the vision and architecture of the National Data Platform project, as key elements of these efforts.
- SPECTRUM: Architecturing Evolutionary Rapid-Prototyping Testbed for Low Latency Multi-Domain Computing (Peipei Zhou, Brown University): The project team has recently launched SPECTRUM, the first open testbed that integrates GPUs and FPGAs with embedded tensor cores to accelerate low-latency AI systems. By combining heterogeneous accelerators, SPECTRUM will enable researchers to explore new system designs for real-time, safety-critical domains such as autonomous vehicles, healthcare, and robotics. As the project begins, the team aims to grow a broad user community and establish SPECTRUM as a new frontier for AI hardware and software co-design innovation, lowering barriers to entry and shaping the next generation of intelligent systems.
- Unlocking Real-Time Network Telemetry Insights: Deploying AtlanticWave-SDX for Enhanced Cybersecurity in Research Environments (Jeronimo Bezerra & Luis Marin Vera, FIU): Building on our successful experience during FABRIC KNIT 10, the project team is excited to share their expertise in harnessing the power of AtlanticWave-SDX with a FABRIC facility port to enable seamless integration of FABRIC with research networks and instruments across Florida, Latin America, and South Africa. In this tutorial, the speakers will delve into the strategic use of AtlanticWave’s resources by cybersecurity researchers seeking to tap into real-time In-band Network Telemetry (INT) from the AmLight network. By leveraging this rich dataset, attendees will gain a deeper understanding of how to effectively deploy network telemetry analytics to enhance DDoS detection and security monitoring in high-performance research environments.
More information is available on our website: https://knit.fabric-testbed.net/#/.
About FABRIC
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.
If you are interested in learning more about KNIT11 or connecting with FABRIC team members, please contact Jayasree Jaganatha.