ESnet News
WINS Has Built a Powerful Network of Women in Networking
Nine years after the Women in IT Networking at SC (WINS) program was first piloted in 2015 to increase gender diversity in the research and education community’s ranks of network and computer systems engineers, women remain a small minority in these skilled, well-paying careers. Just 9.4% of network engineers and 13.2% of computer systems engineers are women. This is why WINS has been both game-changing — and life-changing — for the 56 women who have participated. Read More
At SC24, ESnet Staff Will Be Presenting, Demo-ing — and Supporting SCinet
More than two dozen ESnetters will be presenting, volunteering, and/or attending SC24, the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis, in Atlanta Nov. 17-22. Here's what they're up to. Read More
ESnet Meets with High Energy Physics Scientists to Plan Future Networking Needs
ESnet provides fast and reliable data networking for DOE scientists, but how do we know what they need? We ask them! Recently ESnet staff met with a group of scientists who are supported by the DOE Office of Science High Energy Physics Program (HEP) to learn about their science plans for the next several years. Read More
California Streamin’: Jefferson Lab, ESnet Achieve Coast-to-Coast Feed of Real-Time Physics Data
EJFAT prototype demonstrates proof of concept for connecting scientific instruments with remote high-performance computing for rapid data processing. Read More
ESnet Celebrates 25 Years of Production IPv6 Networking
Twenty-five years ago today, on August 3, 1999, IPv6 history was made: ESnet was issued its first IPv6 production netblock (range of IP addresses), which is still in use today. This was the first production IPv6 address allocation in North America — and possibly the world. Read More
Self-Driving Network Researcher Arpit Gupta Joins Berkeley Lab’s Scientific Networking Division as a Faculty Scientist
Gupta, who is co-director of UC Santa Barbara's Systems and Networking Lab, will collaborate with ESnet and NERSC to continue his groundbreaking work with foundation models for networking. Read More
ESnet Veteran Joe Metzger Retires, Having Helped Build ESnet3 through ESnet6
Metzger's 27 years encompasses ESnet’s expansion across the Atlantic, into Europe, and its evolution from a fast and reliable network services provider to the innovative, multifaceted global research & education leader it is today. Read More
DIII-D National Fusion Facility, NERSC, AMCR, and ESnet Collaboration Speeds Nuclear Fusion Research
This "Superfacility" collaboration brings together high-performance computing at NERSC, DOE’s high-speed data network (ESnet), AMCR’s performance optimization capabilities, and DIII-D’s rich diagnostic suite to enable near-real-time analysis of massive quantities of important data during fusion experiments, allowing tailoring of the experimental process — and accelerating the pace of discovery. Read More
ESnet to Open New Office in Indiana
The lease has been signed to establish a new office for ESnet in Bloomington's Trades District, with space for a few other Berkeley Lab employees. Read More
ESnet Unveils Core Values
ESnet's values represent more than a year of careful work by ESnet’s all-volunteer Values Committee, engagement across the entire organization, and input from ESnet’s leadership. This process was informed by Berkeley Lab’s core values, and the end result is remarkably aligned in spirit. Read More
Collaboration Fuels High-Speed Data-Intensive Research to Understand How Nuclei Decay
Using ESnet, scientists at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams were able to send terabytes of data across the country, analyze it in real time using NERSC’s Perlmutter supercomputer time, and return results that enabled quicker, data-informed experimental choices. Read More
CANARIE, ESnet, GÉANT, and Internet2 Unveil Highest Capacity Transoceanic Connectivity for Research and Education
The Advanced North Atlantic (ANA) collaboration has added three 400-Gbps spectrum circuits between exchange points in the U.S., U.K., and France, boosting ANA's combined trans-Atlantic network capacity to 2.4 Tbps. Read More
New Consortium MetrANOVA to Create a Measurement and Analysis Toolbox for Research and Education Networks Worldwide
Leading research and education (R&E) networking organizations Energy Sciences Network (ESnet), GÉANT, GlobalNOC at Indiana University, Internet2, and Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) have joined forces to form MetrANOVA, a consortium for Advancing Network Observation, Visualization, and Analysis. MetrANOVA’s goal is to develop and disseminate common network measurement and analysis tools, tactics, and techniques that can be applied throughout the global R&E community. Read More
ESnet’s OSCARS Software Automation System Gets Major Upgrade to Meet Future Complex Data Challenges
The software automation system OSCARS, one of the key innovations powering ESnet’s high-speed network for Department of Energy–funded scientific research, has just gotten a major update: OSCARS 1.1, which is designed to take advantage of the capabilities offered by ESnet6, the latest iteration of the network. Read More
ESnet Announces First Trans-Atlantic Subsea Spectrum Agreement
ESnet has signed a long-term lease agreement with Aqua Comms for 25% of a fiber pair linking New York, Dublin, and London — ESnet's first trans-Atlantic spectrum acquisition. Read More
ESnet Releases New Version of iperf, Network Performance Measurement Tool
In late November, ESnet released iperf-3.16, a significant new version of the open-source network performance measurement tool iperf3. Part of perfSONAR, iperf3 can also be used as a stand-alone tool for measuring network performance in general. The new version gives better insights into high-speed network behaviors. Read More
ESnet’s Confab23 Takes a Deep Dive into the Integrated Research Infrastructure
At Confab23, Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)'s second annual user-community gathering, more than 160 domain scientists, computer scientists, network engineers, DOE program managers, and user facility staff came together for meaningful conversations, idea exchange, and collaboration. Read More
ESnet SCinet Volunteers Help Create World’s Most Powerful Temporary Network
In just a few days, the world’s fastest and most powerful volunteer-built network will go live at SC in Denver. SCinet will achieve record speeds of up to 6.71 Tbps. The goal of SCinet's nearly 200 volunteers is to push the boundaries of networking technologies by supporting leading-edge workshops, demos, and collaborations. Read More
ESnet Turns on 400G Circuits to Four DOE National Labs, Supercharging Multi-Site Scientific Research
Argonne, Oak Ridge, and Pacific Northwest National Laboratories and NERSC are first to have access to cutting-edge networking speeds — with more on the way. Read More
Berkeley Lab to Partner with Jefferson Lab to Build $300+ Million High Performance Data Facility Hub
The U.S. Department of Energy has announced the selection of Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab) as the lead for its new High Performance Data Facility Hub. Jefferson Lab will partner with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) to form a joint project team led by Jefferson Lab. Read More
