Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)

ESnet is heartbroken to report that our beloved coworker Daniel Doyle passed away suddenly on July 25. Dan joined ESnet’s Measurement and Analysis group in October 2022 from IU’s GlobalNOC. He has been a wonderful colleague and friend to so many since his first days with us. We will all miss him terribly — as will the entire R&E networking community. 💔 Dan’s obituary: https://lnkd.in/g6hfeetR A celebration of life will be held for him Saturday, August 3, at 3 p.m. at the Day & Deremiah-Frye Funeral Home in Bloomington. Dan's family asks that you honor Dan’s memory by donating to Tippecanoe County’s Court-Appointed Special Advocate program (https://lnkd.in/gifgUnHh), of which Dan was a longtime supporter, or to the American Kidney Fund (https://lnkd.in/gss_FPSs) — Dan was a kidney donor.

In honor of #NationalInternDay, we’re featuring someone very special in our ⚡#energybehindesnet ⚡ series — Sartaj Baveja, a software engineer in ESnet’s Measurement and Analysis group! Sartaj was a summer intern with ESnet back in 2015, when he was an undergraduate majoring in Electronics and Communications Engineering at Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology. As a summer intern, he analyzed the use of InfluxDB, a time series database to store and process network data collected at ESnet, and was able to achieve a 60% performance improvement by parallelizing and batching database writes. Those three months at ESnet (and Berkeley Lab changed his career trajectory, he says: he coauthored an IEEE paper, (https://lnkd.in/gRiG_k5j) won a hackathon (read more: https://lnkd.in/gucPbdB9), learned so much about software engineering that he was able to get a similar internship at CERN the following summer, and made such  strong connections at ESnet that he was hired full time right after he graduated! As an intern turned staff member, Sartaj believes in giving back. He has mentored around 10 high school and undergraduate student interns through Berkeley Lab Computing Sciences' summer program, and tries to present annually on career paths to the entire group of interns. The most important piece of advice he shares? “Grab every opportunity that comes your way. Make the most of your internship by being proactive and curious. Reach out to people, network, and build connections — they can be invaluable for your future,” he urges them. “Plus, understanding different roles and perspectives can help you find your own career path and broaden your skills.” U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) #internships #interns #softwareengineering #mentoring

Attention #cybersecurity folks! Are you going to the 2024 DOE Cybersecurity and Technology Innovation Conference in Dallas next week? Look for our CSO Adam Slagell and Community Threat Hunter and Security Engineer Romain Wartel! They'll be presenting a Mission Spotlight talk on ESnet, "Serving Science at the Speed of Light," on the Trinity Exhibit Hall Stage from 12 p.m. - 12:30 p.m. Tuesday July 30. You can also stop by ESnet's Mission Technology table to chat with them and learn more about ESnet's security engineering and participation in SAFER. Thanks for organizing #DOEInnovates24, DOE's Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO)!

Next in our ⚡#energybehindesnet ⚡ series is Sally Forbes, who joined ESnet in April as an administrator, currently supporting the Security & Business teams. Sally received her bachelor’s in Communications & Broadcasting at San Francisco State University, then worked as a teleprompter and graphics operator for NBC Sports Bay Area before determining that broadcasting was not for her. She switched gears to recruiting and administration, working for Faire and Airbnb before checking out roles at Berkeley Lab at the suggestion of her mother, a longtime DOE lab employee.  An avid reader but also a self-proclaimed people person, Sally has enjoyed getting to know her colleagues at ESnet and connecting with the larger Berkeley Lab community. “I’m excited to be growing in my career at a national lab that does such impressive and important work,” she says.

Interested in #IPv6? ESnet'sJason Zurawski Kate Robinson and Argonne National Laboratory's Thomas Costello just published a paper, "Designing, Constructing, and Operating an IPv6 Network at SC23" for #PEARC24 Proceedings for the PEARC Conference Series next week. Their case study shares the challenging experience of implementing the IPv6 protocol to support more than 15,000 SC Conference Series users in 2023, each with multiple devices of different operating environments and ages. Kate will be presenting the paper's findings at #PEARC24 on Tuesday, July 23, from 3:50-4:15 PM ET in Room 550 A&B (more info: https://lnkd.in/gbg_yK9B)

⏰ On July 22 at 8 a.m. PT, ESnet Senior Information Security Engineer Mike Dopheide will give a webinar on the automated building and deployment testing of security services, using Zeek as an example, for Trusted CI, the National Science Foundation (NSF) Cybersecurity Center of Excellence. Dop will focus on the care and feeding of ESnet's Zeek installation footprint, not the use of Zeek itself. Register now: https://lnkd.in/gmk4B_tc

🙌 Congratulations to our friends at the Advanced Photon Source and Argonne National Laboratory! Such massive upgrades are never easy. ESnet is excited to support the even more data-rich science that will be flowing through #ESnet6. 🌊

We're very excited to share that Arpit Gupta, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara and co-director of UCSB’s Systems and Networking Lab, has joined Berkeley Lab Computing Sciences' Scientific Networking division as faculty scientist! He'll continue his groundbreaking work developing and validating foundation models for use in networking in collaboration with Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) and National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC). “I am convinced that network foundation models will have a similarly transformative effect on networking as software-defined networking did in the past decade,” said Gupta. “Leveraging the untapped potential of abundant, yet unlabeled, telemetry data can liberate us from the limitations of sparse, noisy, and skewed datasets that have hindered us for decades. Working with NERSC, we hope to swiftly develop a robust and performant network foundation model and, more importantly, democratize its access for all. This model can be fine-tuned for numerous existing and unexplored learning tasks in networking, significantly advancing the goal of developing ‘self-driving networks’ that enable safe and performant network connectivity with minimal human intervention.” 👉 Read more: https://lnkd.in/g3JwN8nn U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Berkeley Lab Inder Monga Chin Guok John Wu

👋 Say hello to Derek Howard, our next ⚡ #energybehindesnet ⚡ subject! Derek is a software engineer in ESnet's Pilots and Prototypes Group, where he's currently developing the control plane for a hardware-accelerated load balancer — a key component of the EJ-FAT prototype that ESnet and Jefferson Lab have been collaborating on. (Feature story coming soon!) Before joining ESnet, Derek worked as an #HPC system administrator, where he first encountered ESnet through tools like fasterdata.es.net and #iperf3. Derek’s interest in computers started in early childhood, when his grandparents purchased a family iMac. “I grew up in rural Missouri in an area without broadband,” he explains. “I think it’s funny that I would go from growing up without the Internet to helping build what is arguably the best network in the world!” #networkingcareers #highspeednetworking U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)

Very exciting to see ESnet’s #P4 #smartNIC open source project being used by our collaborators at #FABRIC and Nik Sultana, Illinois Institute of Technology Computer Science Professor! Check out this Renaissance Computing Institute talk on July 16 from 2-3 pm ET, "Stitching Together Innovation with FABRIC Users": https://lnkd.in/gnCsA67Q Learn more about the ESnet SmartNIC: https://lnkd.in/g-_CfRNh There's also a "FABRIC 101: Hello FABRIC" webinar featuring Komal Thareja on Monday, July 15, 2024 from 3-4:30pm ET, designed specifically for new users wanting to learn about the powerful capabilities of the FABRIC testbed and start using it: https://lnkd.in/gVueFHfU