Snowmass 2021 Computational Frontier CompF4 Topical Group Report Storage and Processing Resource Access
W. Bhimji, Dale W. Carder, Eli Dart, Javier Mauricio Duarte, I. Fisk, Robert W. Gardner, Chin P. Guok, B. Jayatilaka, T. Lehman, M. Lin, Carlos Maltzahn, S. P. Mc Kee, Mark S Neubauer, O. Rind, Oksana Shadura, Nhan Viet Tran, P. van Gemmeren, Gordon T. Watts, Benjamin Alan Weaver, Frank Würthwein · Computing and Software for Big Science · 2023
The Snowmass 2021 CompF4 topical group’s scope is facilities R&D, where we consider “facilities” as the hardware and software infrastructure inside the data centers plus the networking between data centers, irrespective of who owns them, and what policies are applied for using them. In other words, it includes commercial clouds, federally funded High Performance Computing (HPC) systems for all of science, and systems funded explicitly for a given experimental or theoretical program. However, we explicitly consider any data centers that are integrated into data acquisition systems or trigger of the experiments out of scope here. Those systems tend to have requirements that are quite distinct from the data center functionality required for “offline” processing and storage.