Date: March 17, 2026
Time: 3:00-4:30 pm ET
Join us on March 17, 2026, at 3:00 PM ET for a FABRIC Tips & Tricks webinar exploring how FABRIC’s Distributed Storage Service helps researchers preserve, access, and reuse experiment data across the platform.
As FABRIC experiments grow in scale and complexity, so does the amount of data they generate. Yet, when a slice expires, that valuable data is often lost, forcing researchers to recreate experiments or manage ad hoc storage solutions. FABRIC’s Distributed Storage Service was designed to solve this challenge by providing a resilient, portable, and user-friendly way to retain and reuse experiment data.
In this session, Komal Thareja will introduce FABRIC’s Distributed Storage Service and explain how it enables researchers to preserve experimental results even after a slice is torn down. Unlike FABRIC’s earlier persistent storage options, which limited data to specific sites, the distributed storage service allows users to run the same experiment across multiple FABRIC locations while maintaining continuous access to their data.
Participants will learn how the service is built and deployed within FABRIC, how it leverages Ceph to maintain three copies of every dataset for resilience, and how this architecture protects data even when individual nodes fail. The session will also walk through a practical example showing how users can request storage, attach it to their experiments, and easily retrieve their data across runs.
Whether you are running long-term experiments, iterating on workflows, or moving between FABRIC sites, this session will show you how distributed storage makes your data persistent, portable, and protected, so your research doesn’t disappear when your slice does.