ESnet News
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
Meet Tony Ferrelli, ESnet's New Director of Networking
Tony Ferrelli, ESnet’s new director of Networking, has been running networks for 20 years. After the past 11 years at Google, he was ready for a new challenge: heading the network engineering and operations team for ESnet6. Read More
ESnet to Demo New Programmable Network Services at SC19
Richard Cziva, a software engineer with ESnet, will lead a demo of ESnet6’s new High Touch Services during SC19 in the RENCI booth. Read More
ESnet Staff Participate in First Global Research Platform Workshop
The GRP Workshop brought together nearly 100 researchers, scientists, engineers, and network managers from 13 countries to share best practices and advance the state of the art. Read More
The Technological Heavyweight You’ve Probably Never Heard Of: ESnet
Since first coming on line more than 30 years ago, ESnet has expanded to connect more than 40 major research institutions at speeds 15,000 times faster than a home network and acting as an early adapter of protocols that now run the internet. Read More
ESnet a Key Partner on Project to Build Novel Network Research Infrastructure
The National Science Foundation is funding a collaborative effort to create a nationwide research infrastructure that will enable the computer science and networking community to develop and test novel architectures that could yield a faster, more secure Internet. Read More
ESnet Welcomes New Hires in June/July
ESnet continues to grow. Read on to learn a little more about the new staff supporting our mission. Read More
Scott Mason Retires After 20 Years With ESnet
Scott Mason is retiring after 20 years with ESnet. Until Scott Mason joined ESnet in 1999, he’d never actually had a job interview, though he already had a long and interesting career behind him. Mason joined the Navy right out of high school and became a specialized saturation diver working on heavy salvage—sunken ships and fighter planes. After eight years in the Navy, Mason was recruited… Read More
ESnet Staff to Share Networking Expertise at 2019 TNC Conference
Several ESnet staff are participating in the upcoming TNC conference, to be held June 16-20 in Tallinn, Estonia. Read More
ESnet Welcomes New Hires in May
ESnet continues to grow. Read on to learn a little more about the new staff supporting our mission. Read More
ESnet6 Design Enters Homestretch
ESnet passed another major milestone on the way to building the Department of Energy's next-generation, exabyte-scale science network. Known as ESnet6, the project was put through a final design review by an independent panel of experts in networking, research, and science, held May 15-17 at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Read More
Superfacility Framework Advances Photosynthesis Research
For more than a decade, a team of international researchers led by Berkeley Lab bioscientists has been studying Photosystem II, a protein complex in green plants, algae, and cyanobacteria that plays a crucial role in photosynthesis. They’re now moving more quickly toward an understanding of this three-billion-year-old biological system, thanks to an integrated superfacility framework established between LCLS, ESnet, and NERSC. Read More
ESnet Welcomes New Hires for March and April
Meet a few of ESnet's new hires from March and April 2019. Read More
ESnet’s Networking Prowess on Display at Singapore Conference
At the Supercomputing Asia 2019 conference (SCA19), held March 11-14 in Singapore, ESnet’s expertise in network design and operation took center stage as ESnet Director Inder Monga delivered a keynote address and the winner of the Data Mover Challenge (DMC) used an approach honed on ESnet's network. In his presentation "Cracking open the network ‘black-box’," Monga discussed an emerging… Read More
ESnet Honored for Innovations in Networking
CENIC has selected ESnet to receive the 2019 CENIC Innovations in Networking Award for R&E Network Partner in recognition of ESnet’s contributions to a number of collaborative initiatives with CENIC, including cybersecurity strategy, network design, and technology adoption. Read More
