Research Infrastructure: FABRIC Operations - Accelerating Innovation and Research

Information

  • NSF Award
  • 2330891
Owner
  • Award Id
    2330891
  • Award Effective Date
    10/1/2023 - 8 months ago
  • Award Expiration Date
    9/30/2027 - 3 years from now
  • Award Amount
    $ 4,057,868.00
  • Award Instrument
    Cooperative Agreement

Research Infrastructure: FABRIC Operations - Accelerating Innovation and Research

The FABRIC project has deployed a state-of-the-art programmable world-wide network infrastructure during the commissioning phase funded through the NSF Midscale research infrastructure-1 program. This infrastructure connects research facilities globally, enabling groundbreaking distributed applications and services using while more than 30 interconnected FABRIC sites already deployed. FABRIC enhances research capabilities in wide-area networking protocols, Internet-of-Things (IoT), Big Data, machine learning, mobile technologies and high-performance computing, fostering scientific discoveries and cross-disciplinary collaborations.<br/><br/>The FABRIC project, now in its operations phase, aims to further grow user communities, foster operational excellence, develop new features, and demonstrate success to its stakeholder communities. Expanding the user base amplifies the impact of FABRIC and other NSF testbeds on science. By providing reliable services, FABRIC ensures reproducibility of complex experiments. The development of new features attracts users from various communities, helping address their specific needs. Demonstrating success through measured outcomes informs the funders and reinforces FABRIC's impact on stakeholder communities. Its intellectual merits lie in infrastructure programmability and interconnectivity, enabling experimentation with distributed systems at unprecedented scales. It supports scientific reproducibility and is a crucial component of the scientific cyberinfrastructure ecosystem. Its impact spans diverse domains, such as high-energy physics, astrophysics, cybersecurity, and scientific instrument streaming services, empowering researchers to achieve breakthrough discoveries.<br/> <br/>FABRIC's broader impacts extend to researchers in computer science, engineering, and domain sciences such as genomics, astronomy and climate research. It actively engages the research community through KNIT workshops and the ambassador program designed to expand FABRIC’s reach to researchers from all disciplines and institutions, regardless of background. FABRIC provides educational resources to faculty, and develops collaborations with minority-serving institutions, simplifying access to advanced research tools and infrastructure for many communities.<br/> <br/>The project website, [https://www.fabric-testbed.net], serves as a central repository for project updates, data, code, and resources, fostering collaboration and accessibility worldwide.<br/><br/>This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

  • Program Officer
    Deepankar Medhidmedhi@nsf.gov7032922935
  • Min Amd Letter Date
    9/22/2023 - 9 months ago
  • Max Amd Letter Date
    9/22/2023 - 9 months ago
  • ARRA Amount

Institutions

  • Name
    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • City
    CHAPEL HILL
  • State
    NC
  • Country
    United States
  • Address
    104 AIRPORT DR STE 2200
  • Postal Code
    275995023
  • Phone Number
    9199663411

Investigators

  • First Name
    Indermohan
  • Last Name
    Monga
  • Email Address
    imonga@es.net
  • Start Date
    9/22/2023 12:00:00 AM
  • First Name
    Anita
  • Last Name
    Nikolich
  • Email Address
    anitan@illinois.edu
  • Start Date
    9/22/2023 12:00:00 AM
  • First Name
    James
  • Last Name
    Griffioen
  • Email Address
    griff@netlab.uky.edu
  • Start Date
    9/22/2023 12:00:00 AM
  • First Name
    Ilya
  • Last Name
    Baldin
  • Email Address
    ibaldin@renci.org
  • Start Date
    9/22/2023 12:00:00 AM
  • First Name
    Kuang-Ching
  • Last Name
    Wang
  • Email Address
    kwang@clemson.edu
  • Start Date
    9/22/2023 12:00:00 AM

Program Element

  • Text
    CISE Research Resources
  • Code
    2890

Program Reference

  • Text
    CISE Research Resources
  • Code
    8002