Routing Working Group please see important information for SC25!

To better understand SC25 Conference network needs, the SCinet team would like to get this email out as far and wide as possible, please forward this to your colleagues!

Each year at the SC Conference, researchers, experimenters, and exhibitors plan large scale demonstrations that connect the host convention center to remote HPC resources around the world. In order to support these often groundbreaking demonstrations, the conference builds SCinet: a highly sophisticated, cutting edge, high-capacity network. This year the conference will be held in St. Louis at the America’s Center.

The Network Research Exhibition (NRE) and Experimental Networks (XNet) teams, in conjunction with the Wide Area Network (WAN) Team and the Routing Team are collaborating with networks providers around the world to plan for the requested WAN and LAN connectivity for SC25 demonstrations and experiments.

We are planning potential bandwidth to regional, national, and international exchange points including:

North Atlantic Research and Education Exchange (NA-REX)

Washington Internet Exchange (WIX)

NetherLight

StarLight

TransPAC

CENIC

Pacific Wave

Pacific Northwest Gigapop (PNWG)

AMPath

Potential 100G or 400G circuits to the following cities:

Seattle, WA (Westin, 2001 6th Ave)

Sunnyvale, CA (1380 Kifer Road)

Los Angeles, CA (818 W. 7th (6th floor))

Miami, FL (Nap of the Americas)

Chicago, IL (Starlight)

Boston, MA (Markley - One Summer St)

Atlanta, GA (56 Marietta or 180 Peachtree)

McLean, VA

New York, NY (32 Avenue of the Americas)

This is in addition to possible planned connectivity to MOREnet, Internet2 (including AL2S), ESnet, and FABRIC.

We depend on exhibitors and network entities to identify their network bandwidth/resource needs between the SC conference and remote locations.

This year we will be using Linklings for all submissions, including this preliminary Network Research Infrastructure request. Please fill out the following form with your initial estimated WAN connectivity requirements (or any remote connectivity to the SC25 exhibit floor):

https://submissions.supercomputing.org/?page=Submit&id=SCinetNetworkRese...

Please have your responses in by May 16thhttp://airmail.calendar/2025-05-16%2012:00:00%20CDT.

If you have any questions feel free to email http://nre-leads@scinet.supercomputing.org/ nre@supercomputing.orgmailto:nre@supercomputing.org. For more information about SC25 visit https://SC25.supercomputing.org/https://sc25.supercomputing.org/.

All the best,

M. Cody Rotermund SC25 SCinet NRE Team Chair