Events and Conferences

ESnet Events

Upcoming

• ESCC Community Call, Monday, Jan. 12, 2026, 11:00-12:30PM Pacific (details coming soon)
• Confab26, the week of April 26 to May 2, 2026, in the Washington, D.C. metro area
  • ESCC at Confab26, Thursday, April 30, 2026, 8:00AM-5:00PM Eastern

 

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Conference Presentations, Demos, & Workshops

SC25, Nov. 16-21, St. Louis, Missouri

SUPPORTING SCINET: SC25’s temporary network, known as SCinet, will break records again this year, offering roughly 13.72 terabits per second of wide area network (WAN) bandwidth, up from last year’s already blazing 8.41 Tbps. The 215 volunteers who have spent many months building it include these ESnetters:

• SCinet Deputy Chair: Dylan Jacob
• SCinet Executive Director: Jason Zurawski
• Executive Advisor: Patrick Storm
• Automation Team Chair: Ryan Vredenburg
• Automation Team Member: Bill Stephens
• Contributor Relations Team Chair: Gizella Kapus
• DevOps Team Member: Andrew Lake
• DevOps Team Member: Katrina Turner
• INDIS Workshop Team Chair: Ezra Kissel
• Network Research Exhibition Team Chair: Cody Rotermund
• WAN Transport Team Member: Michael Blodgett
• SC25 Committee Member: David Martin  and 47 Contributors

SPEAKERS: These ESnet and QUANT-NET staff are also leading or participating in several presentations, panels, and demos.

Sunday, Nov. 16

• Streaming X-ray Detector Data to Remote Facilities Using EJFAT (XLOOP 2025 session): Yatish Kumar; 9:25am - 9:50am CST, Room 240
• INDIS Integrated Infrastructure (panel): Cody Rotermund and others; 10:30am - 11:30am CST, Room 266
• INDIS / SENSE in Practice: Quantifying the End-to-End Benefits of Intent-Based Bandwidth Reservation for Exascale Science Workflows, Inder Monga, Mazahir Hussain, Justas Balcas, Xi Yang, Cees De Laat; 2:15pm - 2:30pm CST, Room 266

Tuesday, Nov. 18

• IRI Interfaces at Work: Prototypes, Progress, and Community Feedback (BoF): John MacAuley, Eli Dart, others; 12:15pm - 1:15pm CST, room 130  
• Prototyping an IRI Agent for Multi-Facility Portable Computing Jobs (demo): Justas Balcas, Yatish Kumar, John MacAuley, and Xi Yang; 2pm - 3pmCST, DOE Booth #3802 Demo Station 1, and 4pm - 5pm CST, Station 2
• MetrANOVA: An Open Source Software Stack for Sharing Network Telemetry: Andy Lake and Katrina Turner; 2:20 - 2:40pm CST, NRE Theater
• IRI Multifacility Light Sources Pathfinder (demo): Eli Dart (ESnet), Valerio Mariani (LCLS), Hannah Paraga (APS), 3pm - 4pm CST, DOE Booth #3802, Demo Station 1 (repeats Wednesday)
• Terabit Scale Streaming from DOE Nuclear Physics Facilities to HPC (demo): Aaron Chester, FRIB, and Yatish Kumar, ESnet; 5pm - 6 pm CST, DOE Booth #3802, Demo Station 2 (repeats Wednesday)
• Student Poster: Analyzing Dataset Popularity for Optimizing In-network Storage, Gunwoo Kim (UC Davis), Alex Sim (LBNL), John Wu, Second Floor Atrium

Wednesday, Nov. 19

• Multi-Resource Cyberinfrastructure Services for Science Domain Workflows via SENSE (NRE demo): Tom Lehman, Xi Yang, Justas Balcas (ESnet); 11am-11:20am CST, NRE Theater
• Prototyping an IRI Agent for Multi-Facility Portable Computing Jobs (NRE demo):  Justas Balcas, Xi Yang, John Macauley, Yatish Kumar; 1:45pm - 2:30pm CST, NRE Theater
• From Hardware Pulses to Entangled Links: A Two-Level Control Design for Quantum Networking (featured booth talk): Inder Monga (ESnet/QUANT-NET), 1:45pm - 2:30pm CST, DOE Booth #3802 Main Stage
• IRI Multifacility Light Sources Pathfinder (demo): Eli Dart (ESnet), Valerio Mariani (LCLS), Hannah Paraga (APS), 3pm - 4pmCST, DOE Booth #3802, Demo Station 2
• Office Hours: Terabit-Scale Streaming with EJFAT for BES Light Sources (roundtable): Yatish Kumar, Eli Dart; 5pm - 6 pm CST, DOE Booth #3802
• Terabit Scale Streaming from DOE Nuclear Physics Facilities to HPC (demo): Aaron Chester, FRIB, and Yatish Kumar, ESnet; 5pm - 6 pm CST, DOE Booth #3802, Demo Station 1

 

PAST 2025

• ESCC Meeting, August 12-14, 2025
• Confab25, April 7-10, 2025, San Francisco,California
  • ESCC Meeting
  • EJFAT User Meeting
• Kate Robinson and Jason Zurawski, “Science Driven Requirements for 400Gbps Networking,” Quilt 2025 Winter Meeting, Feb. 5.
• Brian Tierney, “Recent Linux Improvements that Impact TCP Throughput: Insights from R&E Networks,” NANOG 93, Feb. 3
• Inder Monga,  “QUANT-NET: A Distributed Quantum Computing Testbed,” Cisco Quantum Summit, Jan. 30.
• Justas Balcas, “SmartNICs--What’s Working and What’s Next? ESnet, CERN Successes; AutoGOLE/SENSE Orchestration” and “Programmable Networking and Testbed Integration, Sixth National Research Platform (6NRP) Workshop, Jan. 28. 
• Jason Zurawski, “Science DMZ Overview: Practical Designs and Use Cases,” Edge’s  workshop on Science DMZ, Globus, and InCommon Federation, Jan. 8. 

2024

Internet2’s TechEX24 in Boston Dec. 9-13: Program

Monday 12/9

• Andrew Lake, Mark Feit/Internet2: “perfSONAR Tutorial,” 8 am - 4:30 pm, Simmons 
• Jason Zurawski + Jorge Crichigno, Ali Mazloum, Sergio Elizalde (University of South Carolina); Hans Addleman (Indiana University); Nathaniel Mendoza, Corey Eichelberger (TACC): "Border Gateway Protocol: Concepts and Implementation", 8:00am - 11:30am, Salon H/I (4th Floor)

Tues, 12/10:

• Kapil Agarwal: “Secure Development Practices for the Next-gen Automation Engineer,”  10:20 am, Salon H/I 
• Andy Lake + Mark Feit (Internet2), Lætitia Delvaux (PSNC): “20 Years of perfSONAR and the Road Ahead,” 2:05pm, Salon G 
• Kate Robinson + Jonah Keough (Pacific Northwest Gigapop), Hans Addleman (Indiana University), Chris Wilkinson (Internet2): “Dynamic Research Connections Across Borders - NA-REX,” 2:40pm Salon G
• Jason Zurawski + Corey Eichelberger, Jennifer Schopf, and Nathaniel Mendoza (TACC): “The Engagement and Performance Operations Center (EPOC) Office Hours,” 12:10 pm, Clarendon  
• Jason Zurawski + Nathaniel Mendoza (TACC): “Science Engagement Through Conversation: Meta Analysis of 7 years of EPOC Deep Dive Activities,” 3:10pm Salon G 

Wednesday, 12/11:

• Ed Balas: “MetrANOVA Update,” 8 a.m., Salon G 
• Kate Robinson + Brenna Meade (Indiana University), Karen Lopez (NREL), Deshon Miguel (Arizona State University): “Empowering Women in IT: Bridging the Gender Gap through Program Funding,” 10:20 am, Salon G
• Scott Campbell: “Getting a Second Chance to Redesign your Management Network,” 1:40pm Salon H/I
• Michael Sinatra: “The Path Taken Only 10% of the Time: Exploring a Method of Stop-Gap Traffic Engineering,” 2:05 pm, Salon G
• Fatema Bannat-Wala: “Zone-Hopping: Sensitive Information Leakage Prevention for DNSSEC-NSEC,” 4pm, Salon H/I 

Thursday 12/12

• Marc Körner + Karl Newell (Internet2): “Network Automation - Different Paths, Similar Results,” 9 am, Salon G
• Kapil Agrawal: “Secure Development Practices for the Next-Gen Automation Engineer,” 10:20 am, Salon H/I
• James Kafader, Katrina Turner + Thanos Karachalios (Grafana): “New Grafana Visualizations for Network Analytics and Beyond,” 3:05pm, Salon G
• Scott Campbell: “Developing Better Security Services,” 4pm, Salon H/I 

 

SC24, Atlanta, 11/17-22: Read story

• Eli Dart: Data, Data Everywhere panel, part of the annual Parallel Data Systems Workshop, 4:35 pm, 11/17 B309
• Eli Dart, Brian Tierney, Kiran Vasu, and others: Recent Linux Improvements that Impact TCP Throughput: Insights from R&E Networks (INDIS Workshop), 2 p.m. 11/18 B305
• ESnet staff were involved with this DIII-D collaboration and will be in attendance: IRI Fusion Pathfinder Multi-Facility (demo), 7 p.m. 11/18 at the DOE booth, #3401 in the exhibit hall 
• John Wu with Paul Lin, NERSC, on the DIII-D Fusion Pathfinder Project: Accurate in-situ in-transit analysis of particle diffusion for large-scale tokamak simulations (demo), 8 p.m. 11/18 at the DOE booth (#3401) 

• Yatish Kumar (and Vardan Gyurjyan, Jefferson Lab): Practical Hardware Accelerated Real-Time Multi-facility Streaming Workflow (EJFAT) demo, 11 a.m. 11/19 at the DOE booth (#3401)   
• Eli Dart (and others): Birds of a Feather: Real-Time Scientific Data Streaming to HPC Nodes: Challenges and Innovations, 12:15 p.m. 11/19, B213
• Justas Balcas: Network control that makes SENSE (part of SC24-NRE-022 PDF and SC24-NRE-023 PDF), 11/19, 4:20 pm, SCinet Theater (#2049)
• Eli Dart (with Debbie Bard, NERSC, and others): IRI Outreach and Engagement committee office hours, 2 pm 11/19 and 11/20 in the DOE booth (#3401) 

• Yatish Kumar (and Vardan Gyurjyan, Jefferson Lab): Demo: Practical Hardware Accelerated Real-Time Multi-facility Streaming Workflow (EJFAT), 2 p.m. 11/20 at the DOE booth (#3401) 
• Tom Lehman, Xi Yang, Justas Balcas: Presentation — SENSE Services for Data Movement Systems (XRootD, dCache), 11/20, 3:40 p.m., SCinet Theater (#2049) 
• Yatish Kumar (with Ilya Baldin, Jefferson Lab: Featured Booth Talk: Implementing Time-Critical Streaming Science Patterns Using Distributed Computational Facilities, 4 p.m. 11/20 at the DOE booth (#3401)  

• John MacAuley, Xi Yang, and others: Birds of a Feather: IRI: What novel interfaces will HPC expose for cross-facility workflows?, 12:15 p.m. 11/21, B311
• Eric Pouyoul (with Raj Kettimuthu/Argonne and Mario Cromaz, Berkeley Lab): Demo: GRETA/DELERIA integration with SciStream, 12:40 p.m. 11/21, SCinet Theater (#2049)
• Justas Balcas: FABRIC Research Infrastructure Lightning Talk — Traffic Steering Without the Switch: Offloading Big Flows to the NIC, 1:40-1:50 p.m. (RENCI Booth #3923)

 

TNC24, June 10-14, Rennes, France

• Ed Balas, “Introducing MetrANOVA: a consortium to advance the tools, tactics, and techniques of network measurement” 
• Marc Koerner, “Network Automation - Different Paths, Similar Results”
• Scott Richmond and Chris Cummings, “Going Beyond Network Automation Towards Service Orchestration”
• Chris Cummings, “Using ESnet SmartNIC for Line Rate IPv6 Translation on FPGAs” (lightning talk)
• Andy Lake, perfSONAR Grafana Workshop
• Eli Dart, speaker and co-organizer, Global Science Network Forum side meeting  

 

Ken Miller, Enhancing Performance with Globus and the Science DMZ, Globusworld 2024, May 7-9  

Eli Dart, “Use of Overlay Networks,” Special Interest Group for Next Generation Networks (SIG-NGN), April 8-9, Catania, Sicily 

LHCONE Meeting, April 9-11, Catania, Sicily

• • Kate Robinson, Eli Dart, and Dale Carder, “ESnet Transatlantic Engineering”
  • Kate Robinson, Eli Dart, and Dale Carder, “DC24 from the ESnet perspective”
  • Eli Dart and Brian Tierney “BBRv3 Preliminary Results”
  • Tom Lehman, “LHC Workflow R&D/Testing using AutoGOLE, SENSE, and FABRIC” 

Inder Monga, Plenary Session: "Networking Alchemy: Transforming Science Through Connectivity," OFC24, San Diego, March 26

CENIC 2024, Monterey, CA, March 25-27, 2024

• Panel: "A Community of Innovation: National Research and Education Networks in North America," with Kathryn Anthonisen, Inder Monga (ESnet Executive Director), Howard Pfeffer, Moisés Torres Martínez, and Sylvie Cosgrove, 3/25 9:10-10:10 a.m. (Ballroom)
• Talk: "ESnet's OSCARS Modernization for LHC Data Challenge and IRI," Evangelos Chaniotakis, 3/25, 3:35-4:05 p.m. (Ballroom)
  
• Discussion: "Network Orchestration," with Johannes Houen, Marc Koerner, Markus Krog, and Karl Newell, 3/26 4:15 - 5 p.m. (Ballroom)
• Panel: "Leveraging Private Networks for Campus Future Data and Networking Requirements," (Panel), with Bill Britton, Jonathan Polly, Carl Temme, Andrew Wiedlea, 3/27 10:45-11:45 a.m. (Ballroom)
• Panel: "EPOC’s Network Assistance Assessment, and How it Impacts CENIC Users," with with Nathaniel Mendoza, George Robb, and Jason Zurawski, March 27, 10:45-11:45 a.m. (Regency 1/2)
• Talk: "Towards an Interoperable Wireless Environment for Field Science," Andrew Wiedlea, March 27, 11:45 a.m.-12:30 p.m. (Regency 1/2)

Supercomputing Asia (SC2024), Sydney, Feb 19-22

• Inder Monga, "If Data is the new Gold, what are the prospects of the network?" Feb. 21.

Internet2 Community Exchange (CommEx24), Chicago, March 4-7

• Ed Balas, Introducing MetrANOVA: A neutral, trusted, and open consortium for Advancing Network Observation and Analysis, March 5
• George Robb, What Breaks a Network? An EPOC Analysis, March 5

 

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