Events and Conferences

Conference Presentations, Demos, & Workshops

UPCOMING

At the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (aka SC26) in Chicago, IL, from Nov. 15 to Nov 16, ESnet staff will be wearing many, many hats. 

Core Routing and Optical Network Group Lead Dylan Jacob is the first African-American Chair of SCinet, leading the team of 250+ volunteers who are building the fastest temporary network in the world! SCinet is on track to break records once again, offering 19.6  terabits per second or more of wide area network (WAN) bandwidth, up from last year’s already blazing 13.72 Tbps.

ESnet is also providing or supporting 6 Tbps of capacity into SC26 across 13 circuits from Chicago, Berkeley Lab, Los Angeles, and McLean, plus supplying 15 volunteers (8 in leadership roles; see full list at right), earning us a Diamond Contributor award.

And of course, we’re celebrating our 40th anniversary! Join us in the DOE Booth Monday, 11/16, from 7:30-8:30pm. See www.es.net/40 for the full list of speakers. 

Don’t miss these many demos, panels, and workshops featuring ESnet staff (and many more featuring our colleagues at Berkeley Lab):

Sunday, 11/15

• INDIS Workshop: "Security Panel," Adam Slagell, 10-11:30 am, Sun., 11/15, W175a
• XLOOP Workshop: "Navigating the Spectrum of Science Workloads with ESnet JLab FPGA Accelerated Transport (EJFAT)," Harinarayan Krishnan, 11-11:15 am, Sun., 11/15, W179b
• INDIS Workshop: "ORBIT: An AI-Powered Assistant for NOC Operations in a Data-Intensive Science Network," John Wu, 2:30-2:45 pm, Sun., 11/15, W175a

Monday, 11/16

• Demo: "IRI 2.0: A Common Language for DOE Research Infrastructure," John MacAuley (ESnet/LBL) and Justas Balcas, 7 pm, Mon., 11/16, DOE Booth 4829, Demo Station 1
• "ESnet's 40th Anniversary Celebration," Inder Monga, Dylan Jacob, and many others (see www.es.net/40 for full list), 7:30-8:30 pm, Mon., 11/16, DOE Booth 4829, Front Theater
• Demo: "ESnet on AWS: A Cloud Facility Behind the IRI API," Justas Balcas and John MacAuley, 8 pm, Mon., 11/16, DOE Booth 4829, Demo Station 2

Tuesday 11/17

• Presentation: "SCinet 2026 - Technical Overview," Cody Rotermund, 10:20 am, Tues., 11/17, SC Theater
• Roundtable: "IRI Developer & User Community Work Session," John MacAuley and Paul Rich (ANL), 11 am, Tues., 11/17, DOE Booth 4829, Roundtable
• Roundtable: "EJFAT Streaming Technology and User Feedback," Yatish Kumar and Eli Dart, 1 pm, Tues., 11/17, DOE Booth 4829, Roundtable
• Presentation: "ESnet & GPN," Mohammad Firas Sada, 2:30-3 pm, Tues., 11/17, GPN Booth 5050
• Poster (ACM SRC): "Predictive Modeling of Effective Peak Throughput for Regional In-Network Caching," Sunmin (Annie) Eom, Alex Sim, and John Wu, Tues., 11/17, Skyline Ballroom North Pre-Function

Wednesday 11/18

• Presentation: "Customized End-to-End Services for Science Workflows via SENSE," Tom Lehman, 11-11:20 am, Wed., 11/18, NRE Theater
• Presentation: "The National Research Platform & SCinet," Mohammad Firas Sada, 11:20-11:40 am, Wed., 11/18, NRE Theater
• BoF: "Navigating Complexity: Achieving Performance Portability in the Evolving Landscape of Accelerated HPC Systems," David Martin, 12-1:15 pm, Wed., 11/18, W185abc
• Demo: "IRI 2.0: A Common Language for DOE Research Infrastructure," John MacAuley and Justas Balcas, 1 pm, Wed., 11/18, DOE Booth 4829, Demo Station 2
• Roundtable: "Streaming Workflows to ASCR Supercomputers," Yatish Kumar and Eli Dart, 1 pm, Wed., 11/18, DOE Booth 4829, Roundtable
• Demo: "ESnet on AWS: A Cloud Facility Behind the IRI API," Justas Balcas and John MacAuley, 4 pm, Wed., 11/18, DOE Booth 4829, Demo Station 1
• Presentation: "ORBIT: An AI-Powered Assistant for NOC Operations in a Data-Intensive Science Network," John Wu, 4:40-5 pm, Wed., 11/18, NRE Theater

Thursday 11/19

• BoF: "Real-Time Scientific Data Streaming to HPC Nodes: Challenges and Innovations VI," Eli Dart, 12:15-1:15 pm, Thurs., 11/19, W176abc

PAST CONFERENCES FEATURING ESNET

TechEX 2026, Minneapolis, MN, Oct 26-30

• "MetrANOVA User Hands-On Tutorial," Edward Balas (ESnet), Andrew Lake (ESnet), AJ Ragusa (GlobalNOC), David Ripley (GlobalNOC), Monday, Oct. 26, 8:00-11:30 am, Marquette VIII
• "Beyond the Core: Deploying IPv6 to Users," Nick Buraglio (ESnet), Eric Brown (Virginia Tech), James Harr (Internet2), Monday, Oct. 26, 8:00 am-4:30 pm, Marquette IX
• "GitOps with ArgoCD - Declarative Kubernetes Cluster Management," Shawn Kwang (ESnet), Monday, Oct. 26, 1:00-4:30 pm, Marquette VII
• "ACME Proxy - Certificate Automation in Restricted Enterprise Environments," Kapil Agrawal (ESnet), Tuesday, Oct. 27, 10:20-11:10 am, MB Salon G
• "MetrANOVA: An Open-Source Network Measurement Stack for R&E Networks," Andy Lake and Ed Balas, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 1:40-2:05 pm, MB Salon E/F
• "Networking on 128 bits - Moving Beyond Legacy IP," Kapil Agrawal (ESnet), James Harr (Internet2), Jeffry Handal (Cisco), Eric Brown (Virginia Tech), Tuesday, Oct. 27, 4:25-4:50 pm, MB Salon E/F
• "Network Ontology, Redefined: ESnet's Discovery Service," Marc Körner (ESnet), Thursday, Oct. 29, 9:00-9:20 am, MB Salon E/F
• "Wiring Science at Scale: ESnet, Enabling the Genesis Mission with the American Science Cloud," Dale Carder (ESnet), Thursday, Oct. 29, 10:45-11:10 am, MB Salon E/F

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