Supporting Scientific Research with the Energy Sciences Network

<!--HTML--><p style="text-align: justify;">The Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) is a high-performance, unclassified national network built to support scientific research. Funded by the U.S. Department of Energy&rsquo;s Office of Science (SC) and managed by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, ESnet provides services to more than 40 DOE research sites, including the entire National Laboratory system, its supercomputing facilities, and its major scientific instruments. ESnet also connects to 140 research and commercial networks, permitting DOE-funded scientists to productively collaborate with partners around the world.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">ESnet Division Director (Interim) Inder Monga and ESnet Networking Engineer David Mitchell will present current ESnet projects and research activities which help support the HEP community. ESnet&nbsp; helps support the CERN community by providing 100Gbps trans-Atlantic network transport for the LHCONE and LHCOPN services. ESnet is also actively engaged in researching connectivity to cloud computing resources for HEP workflows and Named Data Networking (NDN) to help scientists manage large science data.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>About the speakers</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Inder Monga provides research and technology direction, actively leads research projects and manages software engineering efforts for ESnet. He focuses on advancing networking services for accelerating collaborative and distributed science, as well as contributes actively to efforts in the industry related to Software-Defined Networking, Science DMZ, performance management as well as the Advanced Network Testbed Initiatives. He is appointed as the chair of ONF&#39;s Research Associates, and contributes actively to the Global Network Architecture activity. Monga&rsquo;s research interests include network virtualization, software-defined networking, grid/cloud computing and sensor networking, and he holds 17 granted patents. His work experience in the private sector has included software development, research and network engineering for Wellfleet Communications and Nortel, where he focused on application and network convergence. Monga earned his undergraduate degree in electrical/electronics engineering from Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur, India, before coming to the U.S. to pursue his graduate studies in Boston University&rsquo;s Electrical and Electronics Communication Systems Department.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">David Mitchell has been a network engineer for ESnet since 2013 and is currently stationed at CERN. Prior to starting at ESnet he worked as a network engineer for the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado for 15 years. He received his B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 1993 and worked at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) during his time in Illinois.</p> <hr> <p><strong>Organised by:</strong> <em>Edoardo Martelli and <a href="http://consult.cern.ch/xwho/people/412742">Miguel Angel Marquina</a> - <a href="http://cern.ch/it-dep" target="_blank">IT Department</a><br /> <a href="http://cern.ch/Computing.Seminars" target="_blank">CERN Computing Seminars and Colloquia</a></em></p>