ESnet News
Machine Learning to Add Another Dimension to ESnet's Toolbox for Predicting Data Patterns
A research project called DAPHNE, led by ESnet’s Mariam Kiran, is exploring how artificial intelligence can be used to design and efficiently manage distributed network architectures to improve data transfers, guarantee high-throughput, and improve traffic engineering. Read More
ESnet Summer Students Make the Most of Their Remote Internships
Like many organizations adjusting to a changing work environment amid the COVID-19 pandemic, all of ESnet’s summer students did their internships remotely this year. As their internships draw to a close, we talked with a few of our students about their experiences. Read More
ESnet Applying Global Networking Expertise to GRETA Spectrometer for Experiments at Michigan Facility
A team of ESnet engineers is helping to create a specialized network that will transport and organize data for the Department of Energy's Gamma Ray Energy Tracking Array (GRETA) experiment. Read More
New DOE Blueprint to Pave the Way for a Nationwide Quantum Internet
In this Q&A with ESnet Director Inder Monga, he discusses ESnet's role in efforts to build scalable quantum communication networks and what it will take to create the first quantum Internet. Read More
Supercomputing Pipeline Aids DESI’s Quest to Create 3D Map of the Universe
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument is combining high-speed automation, high-performance computing, and high-speed networking to produce the largest 3D map of the universe ever created. Starting in late 2020, DESI's five-year mission is to capture light from 35 million galaxies and 2.4 million quasars and transmit that data to NERSC - DESI’s primary computing center - for data processing and analysis. Read More
Meet Todd Anderson, ESnet’s Newest Director
Meet Todd Anderson, ESnet's New Director of Systems and Software Engineering Read More
ESnet’s iperf3 Tool Helps Comcast Meet Customer Demand During COVID-19 ISP Surge
A network performance measurement tool developed by engineers at ESnet and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is being widely used by Comcast, which operates the largest residential Internet network in the United States, to ensure that its services remain up and running at top speed during the COVID-19 crisis. Read More
ESnet, NERSC Continue to Deliver Supercomputing, Networking Support for Nation’s Scientists during Pandemic
While people around the world hunker down in their homes to try to slow the advance of the COVID-19 virus and many services have decreased or stopped, NERSC and ESnet continue to provide critical computing and networking resources to thousands of scientists, including some who are exploring ways to fight the pandemic. Read More
ESnet cybersecurity staff awarded the first-ever “ESNET"
Three members of the Energy Sciences Network’s Cybersecurity team – Michael Dopheide, Vlad Grigorescu, and Sam Oehlert – were recently honored with an Extra Special Noteworthy Exemplary Trophy Award for their SANS 2019 Holiday Hack Challenge entry. Read More
Patty Giuntoli: Learning at the Speed of Life
After 11 years ar Berkeley Lab and a 30+ career in networking, Patty Giuntoli will be retiring on February 25. Read More
Quantum Internet Workshop Begins Mapping the Future of Quantum Communications
Building on multiple research efforts across the U.S., some 70 representatives from government agencies and universities gathered in New York City Feb. 5-6 at the first Quantum Internet Blueprint Workshop to discuss building a nationwide entangled quantum Internet. Read More
ESnet Staff Contribute to CERN Meeting
Several ESnet staff participated in the joint Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG) and LHC Open Network Environment (LHCONE) worldwide meeting, held January 13-14 at CERN, home to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment in Geneva, Switzerland. Read More
