“Great networks by their nature fade into the background, allowing science to take center stage. But at ESnet we are not just a network, we are also a partner to all the scientific enterprises across the Department of Energy — and we actively collaborate with them to accelerate their scientific research,” says ESnet Executive Director Inder Monga. “ESnet is the fabric through which they access HPC, including our new real-time raw-data streaming capabilities. We’re building infrastructure like in-network caching and gathering large data sets to support the increasing demand for AI — and we’re experimenting with AI to improve our own operations. We’re also providing the practical networking expertise to QUANT-NET’s effort to move quantum networking from the physics lab into production.”

If you would like to hear more Berkeley Lab podcasts, become part of our trial of a new podcast platform exclusively for Berkeley Lab staff.  Send a note saying you want to try it to elements@lbl.gov from your Lab email address and you can be one of the first to hear all the Lab news in “It’s Elemental.”