Events and Conferences

ESnet Events

Upcoming

• ESCC Community Call, Wednesday, January 21, 2026, 11:00-12:30PM Pacific
• 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

TechEX25, Dec. 8-12, Denver, CO

See the program for full descriptions  

Monday, Dec. 8

• "A Hands-on Tutorial on BGP,” Jason Zurawski (ESnet), Corey Eichelberger (TACC), Jorge Crichigno and Ali AlSabeh (University of South Carolina) Mon. 12/8, 8-11:30am MT, Governor’s Square 12 (Concourse Level)      
• “Beyond the Core: Deploying IPv6 Networks to End Users,” James Harr (Internet2), Nick Buraglio (ESnet), Eric Brown (Virginia Tech), Mon. 12/8, 8am-4:30pm MT, Director’s Row J (Lobby Level)
• “Hands-on perfSONAR Tutorial,” Andy Lake (ESnet), Mark Feit (Internet2), Szymon Trocha (PSNC), Mon. 12/8, 8am-4:30pm MT, Director’s Row E (Lobby Level)

Tuesday, Dec. 9

• “Kubernetes in IPv6-Only Networks - Challenges, Lessons, and Design Patterns,” Kapil Agrawal, Tues. 12/9, 10:45-11:10 am CT, Advanced Networking Track - Plaza D/E (Concourse Level)
• “MetrANOVA Datasource Benchmarking,” Ed Balas, James Kafader, Tues. 12/9, 2:05-2:30 pm MT, Plaza D/E (Concourse Level)
• “SOLAR-Q: An Off-Grid Wireless Monitor,” James Kafader, Tues. 12/9, 3:05-3:30 pm MT, Plaza D/E (Concourse Level)

Wednesday, Dec. 10

• “Solving Secret Zero: Bootstrapping On-Premises Kubernetes Clusters using SealedSecrets and ArgoCD,” Shawn Kwang, Wed. 12/10, 9-9:50 am, Plaza D/E (Concourse Level)
• “Celebrating 20 years of Network Measurement with perfSONAR,” Andrew Lake (ESnet), Mark Feit (Internet2), Lætitia Delvaux Poznań (Supercomputing & Networking Center), Wed. 12/10, 4:25-4:50 pm MT, Plaza D/E (Concourse Level)

Thursday, Dec. 11

• “Out-of-Band: Your Forgotten Second Network,” John Amerkhanian, Thurs. 12/11 9-9:25 am MT, Plaza D/E (Concourse Level)
• “SCinet: The Most Powerful and Advanced Temporary Network on Earth,” Jason Zurawski and Dylan Jacob (ESnet), Nathaniel Mendoza and Corey Eichelberger (TACC), and Debbie Fligor (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign), Thurs. 12/11, 11:20-11:40 am MT, Advanced Networking Track Room  

 

PAST 2025

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

• Streaming X-ray Detector Data to Remote Facilities Using EJFAT (XLOOP 2025 session): Yatish Kumar, 11/16
• INDIS Integrated Infrastructure (panel): Cody Rotermund and others, 11/16
• 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, 11/16

• IRI Interfaces at Work: Prototypes, Progress, and Community Feedback (BoF): John MacAuley, Eli Dart, others, 11/17  
• Prototyping an IRI Agent for Multi-Facility Portable Computing Jobs (demo): Justas Balcas, Yatish Kumar, John MacAuley, and Xi Yang, 11/17
• MetrANOVA: An Open Source Software Stack for Sharing Network Telemetry: Andy Lake and Katrina Turner, 11/17
• IRI Multifacility Light Sources Pathfinder (demo): Eli Dart (ESnet), Valerio Mariani (LCLS), Hannah Paraga (APS), 11/17 and 11/18  
• Integrated Streaming Workflow with EJFAT for Nuclear Physics (demo): Aaron Chester, FRIB, and Yatish Kumar, ESnet, 11/16 and 11/17
• Student Poster: Analyzing Dataset Popularity for Optimizing In-network Storage, Gunwoo Kim (UC Davis), Alex Sim (LBNL), John Wu, Second Floor Atrium

• Multi-Resource Cyberinfrastructure Services for Science Domain Workflows via SENSE (NRE demo): Tom Lehman, Xi Yang, Justas Balcas (ESnet), 11/18
• Prototyping an IRI Agent for Multi-Facility Portable Computing Jobs (NRE demo):  Justas Balcas, Xi Yang, John Macauley, Yatish Kumar, 11/18
• From Hardware Pulses to Entangled Links: A Two-Level Control Design for Quantum Networking (featured DOE Booth talk): Inder Monga (ESnet/QUANT-NET), 11/18
• Office Hours: Bluesky Integrated Streaming with EJFAT for BES Light Sources (roundtable): Yatish Kumar, Eli Dart, 11/18

• 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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