%ABaldin, Ilya%ANikolich, Anita%AGriffioen, James%AMonga, Indermohan%AWang, Kuang-Ching%ALehman, Tom%ARuth, Paul%BJournal Name: IEEE internet computing; Journal Volume: 23; Journal Issue: 6 %D2020%I %JJournal Name: IEEE internet computing; Journal Volume: 23; Journal Issue: 6 %K %MOSTI ID: 10132161 %PMedium: X %TFABRIC: A National-ScaleProgrammable ExperimentalNetwork Infrastructure %XFABRIC is a unique national research infrastructure to enable cutting-edge andexploratory research at-scale in networking, cybersecurity, distributed computing andstorage systems, machine learning, and science applications. It is an everywhere-programmable nationwide instrument comprised of novel extensible network elementsequipped with large amounts of compute and storage, interconnected by high speed,dedicated optical links. It will connect a number of specialized testbeds for cloudresearch (NSF Cloud testbeds CloudLab and Chameleon), for research beyond 5Gtechnologies (Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research or PAWR), as well as productionhigh-performance computing facilities and science instruments to create a rich fabric fora wide variety of experimental activities. %0Journal Article