Derek Weitzel

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FabAID

National fabric of open data services for data-intensive and AI-driven research.

FabAID is an NSF-funded project building a fabric of services to accelerate data-intensive and AI-driven science — federating storage, caching, discovery, and workflows into an open service layer.

My work focuses on cybersecurity and operations for the FabAID service fabric: token-based authorization between services, and the operational practices that keep federated data delivery reliable.

A fabric that spans institutions cannot rely on a shared perimeter, so authorization has to travel with the request. That is the same capability-based model as SciTokens, applied to a data layer that is still being built.

Technologies

  • OSDF — Open Science Data Federation
  • XRootD — XRootD distributed data access framework
  • Ceph
  • Kubernetes
  • SciTokens — SciTokens capability-based authorization
  • JWT — JSON Web Tokens
  • Go
  • Python

NSF Awards