====== CompF4: Storage and processing resource access (Facility and Infrastructure R&D) ======
===== Working Group Co-Conveners =====
^Name ^Institution ^email |
|Wahid Bhimji|LBL|wbhimji[at]lbl.gov|
|Meifeng Lin|BNL|mlin[at]bnl.gov|
|Frank Wuerthwein|UCSD|fkw@[at]ucsd.edu|

==== Topic leads ====
**Storage**: Carlos Maltzahn, Peter Van Gemmeren and Bo Jayatilaka

**Analysis facilities**: Oksana Shadura, Mark Neubauer and Gordon Watts

**Processing**: Meifeng Lin and Ian Fisk

**AI Hardware**: Javier Duarte and Nhan Tran

**Edge Services**: Ofer Rind and Benjamin Weaver 

**Networking**: Eli Dart, Chin Guok and Shawn McKee

==== Topical Report  ====
A draft of the report for this topical group is available! Please send comments directly to the co-conveners above
[[https://www.dropbox.com/s/b1uzzmajcfnt10u/SnowmassBook_CompF4_draft_v0.pdf?dl=0|Draft Report V0]]



===== Description=====
  * Functional areas
    * Provide access to data for large scale central workflows
    * Provide access to data for end user analysis
    * Access to Long term high latency storage (tape, etc.)
    * Access to Low latency storage (disk, ssd, nvme, … )
    * Access to CPU resources ➜ GRID, HPC, CLOUD
    * Access to Accelerator resources ➜ GRID, HPC, CLOUD
    * Access to Specialized AI Hardware (and/or other domain-specific architectures)
    * Interconnecting everything through Network
  * Mandate
    * What are the workflows related to storing and accessing data of the stakeholders?
    * What different storage solutions/technologies are used, will be used?
    * What is the technology evolution of storage solutions/technologies? What R&D is needed?
    * What are the storage and access needs of the stakeholders?
    * What are the storage resource needs of the stakeholders?
    * What is the role of the network in these workflows?
    * How are the solutions used by the community embedded/derived from solutions from industry/other science domains
    * Recruit community members to represent the physicist/analysis perspective.

===== Submitted LOI =====
Here is the list of submitted LOIs to this topical group.  First index before "/"  corresponds to the primary frontier used for the submission.
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