We had a wonderful time hearing from FABRIC users and connecting with attendees at SC24 in November.
Paul Ruth presented FABRIC updates at SC24, twice in RENCI’s booth and once at the SC Theater. If you missed his talk, we invite you to review the slides here.
User Presentations
Thank you to all users who worked with our team to share how FABRIC is used in their projects. We had a wide variety of topics and can’t wait to learn more about these experiments in the coming months.
- Using AI/ML with P4 on Baric for intelligent routing | Mariam Kiran, ORNL
- Using CREASE Tooling to smoothen your Testbed Experiment experience | Nik Sultana, Illinois Institute of Technology
- FABRIC And Data Intensive Science Prototype Services | Joe Mambretti, Northwestern University and StarLight
- Multi-Domain Experiments Using ESnet SENSE on the National Research Platform / PacWave / FABRIC | Mohammad Firas Sada, San Diego Supercomputer Center
- Traffic Steering Without the Switch: Offloading Big Flows to the NIC | Justas Balcas, ESNet
- Status of FABRIC integration with the National Research Platform (NRP) | Frank Wuerthwein, UCSD
- Global P4 Lab | Marcos Schwarz, RNP
Additionally, it was great to hear from teams led by Phuong Cao, Paola Grosso, and Praveen Rao about how their projects use FABRIC at the INDIS 24 workshop.
Powered By FABRIC
There were FABRIC facility ports at SCinet at several booths this year in addition to RENCI, including:
- StarLight | Booth #2551
- California Institute of Technology / CACR | Booth #845
- CIENA | Booth #1940
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.
At SC24, this Traveling Ciena built FABRIC node was located in the Ciena booth on the SC24 Exhibit floor. This deployment included connections thru SCinet and leverage the extensive wide area connectivity engineered into SC24 to connect back to the FABRIC terabit core and associated globally distributed infrastructure. This provided an opportunity for FABRIC users to demonstrate innovative research/experiments which can span the FABRIC core infrastructure and resources at the SC24 Exhibit Venue, including to other SC24 participant booths.
Thanks again to all who attended our talks and connected with our team. We look forward to seeing you at SC25.