OSRN at the KNIT11 Workshop

At the KNIT11 Workshop, the National Research Platform (OSRN) collaborated with FABRIC to present a comprehensive tutorial on cross-testbed experimentation. The session, “Joint FABRIC and National Research Platform Experiments,” demonstrated how to connect FABRIC slices with OSRN Kubernetes pods to enable experiments that extend beyond the capabilities of either platform alone.

Presenters: Mohammad Firas Sada & Justas Balcas
Location: University of Utah

The National Research Platform (OSRN) provides diverse edge resources such as GPUs, FPGAs, TPUs, and DPUs, while FABRIC offers similar computational components embedded into a programmable wide-area network. This tutorial demonstrated how to connect FABRIC slices with OSRN Kubernetes pods to enable experiments that extend beyond the capabilities of either platform alone. Using ESnet SENSE for dynamic, high-performance network provisioning together with the SensePath Kubernetes Operator (featuring a GUI, REST API, and custom CRD), participants learned how to create network experiments with wider topologies, broader access to heterogeneous hardware, and larger experimental scales than FABRIC-only or OSRN-only setups.

🔗 Reproducible Code: OSRN FABRIC Integration Tutorial