Date: November 16-20, 2025
Location: St. Louis, MO
Event Website: https://sc25.supercomputing.org/
Presenter: Paul Ruth
FABRIC: Current Capabilities and Stories from our Users
Those interested in learning more about FABRIC at Supercomputing 2025 will be able to visit RENCI’s booth (#4424) and learn about 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
As part of the 2025 INDIS Workshop, FABRIC will be represented on November 16 at 10:30 AM ET at the SC Theater on the exhibit floor. PI Paul Ruth will share FABRIC updates from the past year.
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.
FABRIC Facility Ports and Traveling Node
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
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 built FABRIC node will be located in the Ciena booth 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. This provides an opportunity for FABRIC users to demonstrate innovative research/experiments which can span the FABRIC core infrastructure and resources at the SC25 Exhibit Venue, including to other SC25 participant booths.