ESnet News
From AI to Quantum: ESnet’s 2025 Summer Interns Explore Networking’s Frontiers
What happens when super-smart students team up with innovative ESnet engineers and researchers? This summer, the answer includes machine learning models that can forecast network demand, quantum computing resource simulations, IPv6 testing, and in-network caching systems that will help influence how scientists use data. Read More
Confab25: Codesigning the Integrated Research Future of Scientific Networking and Innovation
More than 180 scientists, networking and software engineers, and DOE leaders convened for Confab25, ESnet’s largest user meeting. They came together to share ideas, solve problems, and forge new partnerships in the service of "innovaction" (putting innovation into action). Read More
Building a Data Pipeline to Accelerate Discovery
Researchers at Berkeley Lab and Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed an accelerated data pipeline called DELERIA, a new software platform for streaming large amounts of data at very high speeds — from experiment data acquisition to a high-performance computing facility and back — for analysis in near-real-time, interactive timescales. Read More
Inder Monga on Redefining Network Infrastructure
In a new podcast and cover story, Inder Monga shares how ESnet works to support the nation's scientists. Read More
Networking for the Future: Five Ways ESnet Accelerates the Nation’s Science
Large-scale scientific collaboration depends on the seamless flow of information from its source to where it can be analyzed and understood—like a vast circulatory system transporting vital knowledge. ESnet keeps this system running and enables breakthroughs that shape our world. Read More
perfSONAR Celebrates 20 Years of Simplifying Global Research Collaboration Through Standardized Network Measurement and Testing
The global research and education (R&E) community is celebrating a major milestone in high-performance networking and collaboration: the 20th anniversary of perfSONAR. With a vibrant user community and more than 2,000 registered instances deployed by over 1,000 organizations worldwide — on all seven continents — it enables real-time identification of data transmission issues and supports seamless connectivity for scientific discovery. Read More
Networking for Integrated Science: ESnet Convenes Users for Confab25, April 7-10, 2025, in San Francisco
Confab25, the user meeting of the DOE user facility Energy Sciences Network (ESnet), will bring together DOE-funded domain scientists, network and software engineers, program managers, and user-facility staff in person to co-design the future of integrated science. Read More
Can You Read Me Now? New Private Cellular Tower Prototype Helps Field Researchers Connect Remote Sensors
The ESnet/EESA Greenfield Wireless team has successfully field-tested an affordable, flexible private cellular system that can dramatically simplify data collection and transfer for sensors in remote areas. Read More
