FABRIC Across Borders (FAB)

Global science relies on robust, interconnected components - computers, storage, networks and the software that ties them together - collectively called the scientific cyberinfrastructure (CI). Improvements to individual components are made at varying paces, often creating bottlenecks in the flow of information - the scientific workflow - and slowing down scientific discovery. FABRIC Across Borders (FAB) enables domain scientists and CI experts to jointly develop a more tightly integrated, flexible, intelligent, easily programmable workflow that takes advantage of rapid changes in technology to improve global science collaboration. FAB enables domain scientists to perform global, end-to-end experimentation of new CI workflow ideas on a platform with one of a kind capabilities. The project expands the NSF-funded FABRIC testbed to encompass four additional, International locations, creating an interconnected resource on which an initial set of scientists from High Energy Physics (HEP), Astronomy, Cosmology, Weather, Urban Science and Computer Science work with cyberinfrastructure experts to conduct cyberinfrastructure experiments. In addition to domain scientists, FAB collaborates in the area of Internet freedom and maintains strong partnerships with human rights groups, which serve to expand the results beyond domain sciences.

RENCI leads this project adding 4 international sites to FABRIC (at CERN, University of Bristol, University of Amsterdam and University of Tokyo) and supporting a number of critical use case applications.

• Energy Sciences Network
• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• University of Amsterdam Multiscale Network Systems (MNS) Group
• University of Bristol Smart Internet Lab
• University of Chicago
• University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign
• University of Kentucky
• University of Tokyo Nakao Lab

• National Science Foundation