CompF4: Storage and processing resource access (Facility and Infrastructure R&D)

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

A draft of the report for this topical group is available! Please send comments directly to the co-conveners above Draft Report V0

• 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.

Here is the list of submitted LOIs to this topical group. First index before “/” corresponds to the primary frontier used for the submission.