ESnet News
Science DMZ-Based Big-Science Pacific Research Platform Debuts at CENIC 2015 Annual Conference
LA MIRADA and BERKELEY, CA – Attendees at the CENIC 2015 Annual Conference, “Shaking Things Up,” will be introduced to the Pacific Research Platform, a cutting-edge research infrastructure which will link together the Science DMZs of dozens of top research institutions via three advanced networks: CENIC’s California Research & Education Network (CalREN), the Department of Energy’s… Read More
ESnet Opens 40G perfSONAR Host for Network Performance Testing
ESnet has deployed the first public 40Gbps production perfSONAR host directly connected to an R&E backbone network, allowing research organizations to test and diagnose the performance of network links up to 40 gigabits per second. The host, located in Boston, Mass., is available to any organization in the R&E (research and education) networking community. More and more, organizations… Read More
CENIC Honors ESnet's 100G SDN Testbed with 2015 Innovations in Networking Award
LA MIRADA and BERKELEY, CA – The Department of Energy’s Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) is being honored by the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC) as a recipient of the 2015 Innovations in Networking Award for High-Performance Research Applications for their 100-Gigabit Software-Defined Networking (100G SDN) Testbed. The ESnet 100G SDN Testbed provides network… Read More
perfSONAR Workshop Helps Network Engineers Improve Network Performance for Big Data
ESnet's Brian Tierney and Jason Zurawski were the featured speakers at “perfSONAR Deployment Best Practices, Architecture, and Moving the Needle,” organized by ESnet and Internet2 and hosted Jan. 21-22 by the Ohio Academic Resources Network. Read More
ESnet’s Tierney, Zurawski to Present at Workshop on perfSONAR Best Practices
ESnet’s Brian Tierney and Jason Zurawski will be the featured speakers at a workshop on “perfSONAR Deployment Best Practices, Architecture, and Moving the Needle.” The Jan. 21-22 workshop, one in a series of Focused Technical Workshops organized by ESnet and Internet2, will be held at the Ohio Supercomputer Center in Columbus. A joint effort between ESnet, Internet2, Indiana University, and… Read More
Register Now for Cross-Connects Workshop on Managing Cosmology Data
Registration is now open for a Feb. 10-11 workshop on “Improving Data Mobility and Management for International Cosmology” to be held in Berkeley. The workshop, one in a series of Cross-Connects workshops, is sponsored the by the Dept. of Energy’s ESnet and Internet2. Read More
ESnet Powers NRL’s 100 Gbps Remote I/O Demo at SC14
The Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), in collaboration with ESnet, the International Center for Advanced Internet Research at Northwestern University, the Center for Data Intensive Science at the University of Chicago, the Open Cloud Consortium and significant industry support, conducted a 100 gigabits per second remote I/O demonstration at SC14. Read More
IT Division’s Julie Petersen Attends Networking Conference with ESnet’s Diversity Support
Julie Petersen of Berkeley Lab's IT Division attended the 2014 Technology Exchange conference through support from ESnet. Read More
New perfSONAR Release Offers More Network Measurement Data, Increased Security
The latest release of perfSONAR, version 3.4, gives network engineers access to more data about network performance as well as increased security protections. Read More
Staff to Share Networking Expertise and Accomplishments at Tech Exchange Conference
Berkeley Lab staff from ESnet, NERSC and the IT Division will be among the presenters at the 2014 Technology Exchange, a leading technical event in the global research and education networking community. The annual meeting is co-organized by ESnet and Internet2. The conference will be held Oct. 27-30 in Indianapolis. Read More
ESnet Extends 100G Connectivity Across Atlantic
Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Energy Sciences Network is deploying four new high-speed transatlantic links, giving researchers at America’s national laboratories and universities ultra-fast access to scientific data from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and other research sites in Europe. Read More
Photon Speedway Puts Big Data In the Fast Lane
In experiments run at the Linac Coherent Light Source, scientists from Berkeley Lab and SLAC used ESnet and NERSC to more quickly achieve a breakthrough in photosynthesis research. Read More
SPOT Suite Transforms Beamline Science
Scientists from Berkeley Lab’s ALS, CRD and NERSC are teaming up to create new tools for reducing, managing, analyzing and visualizing beamline data. To facilitate this new workflow they tapped ESnet engineers to set up data transfer nodes between three ALS beamlines and NERSC. Read More
Weathering the Flood of Big Data in Climate Research
ESnet's Eli Dart moved 56 TB of climate data from 21 sites to NERSC, a task that took three months. In contrast , it took just two days to transfer the raw dataset using Globus from NERSC to the Mira supercomputer at Argonne National Laboratory. (Select image to enlarge.)Big Data, it seems, is everywhere, usually characterized as a Big Problem. But researchers at Lawrence… Read More
Computing Sciences Staff to Speak at Climate Data Best Practices Workshop
As climate models increase in resolution, the resulting simulations can generate terabytes of data. ESnet and Internet2 are co-organizing a Focused Technical Workshop (FTW) on Climate Science, in collaboration with Indiana University, the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA); and hosted by NOAA in Boulder, Colo. The July… Read More
Confirmed: Stellar Behemoth Self-Destructs in Type IIb Supernova
For the first time, astronomers have direct confirmation that a Wolf-Rayet star died in a violent explosion known as a Type IIb supernova. Using the iPTF pipeline, researchers caught supernova SN 2013cu within hours of its explosion. These observations are providing valuable insights into the life and death of the progenitor Wolf-Rayet. These stars are interesting because they enrich galaxies with the heavy chemical elements that eventually become the building blocks for planets and life. Read More
ESnet’s Mike Bennett Retiring after 26 Years of Making Key Connections
Since he started working at the lab back in 1988, Mike Bennett has found himself in the middle of a number of interesting transitions. But come April 30, he’ll make his last one – transitioning into retirement. When Bennett started as an engineering technologist at the Bevatron, one end of the control room was filled with analog equipment featuring knobs, dials, oscilloscopes and other… Read More
100 Gbps Test Link Sets Pace for Faster Trans-Atlantic Data Transfers
Data transfers from the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland to sites in the U.S. have historically taken different paths – 15 in all – via 10 gigabit per second (Gbps) links separately managed by three research networks in the U.S. and Europe. So what would happen if those massive datasets were instead transferred using a single 100 Gbps connection? That was the thinking behind an… Read More
ESnet Staff to Present at Internet2's 2014 Global Summit
About 800 networking experts from across the country and around the world are meeting April 6-11in Denver for Internet2’s annual “Global Summit,” a weeklong series of presentations, discussions and meetings aimed at improving the performance of research and education networks. The name of the conference, formerly the Internet2 Members Meeting, was chosen to reflect the increasingly… Read More
Democratizing Science With High Speed Networks
For the first time, data collected and analyzed by a very remote user of National Center for Electron Microcopy (NCEM) via the Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) has been published. As a result, many scientists are optimistic about the future of remote microscopy for DOE supported science. Read More
