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

Wahid Bhimji (NERSC/LBNL), Frank Wuerthwein (UCSD), Meifeng Lin (BNL)

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Initial brief (“Functional areas”)

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  • Provide access to data for large-scale central workflows
  • Provide access to data for end user analysis
  • Hierarchical storage
    • Access to long-term high-latency storage
    • Access to low-latency storage
    • Computational Storage, DPUs and other new ideas
  • Access to
    • CPU resources -> GRID, HPC, Cloud
    • Accelerator resources -> Grid, HPC, Cloud
    • Specialized AI hardware
  • Interconnecting everything through the network

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Previous activities and links

  • Mailing list:

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  • Aug 2020 (link) - Computational Frontier workshop - 2 days: seeded with presentations, with plenty of discussion (notes)
  • Late 2020 - LOI submissions (link)
  • Oct 2020: Community planning meeting: Frontier led sessions
  • Mar 2022: Whitepaper submissions

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Timeline and deliverables

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https://snowmass21.org/computational/start#time_schedule

  • January 31, 2022: White Paper title and abstract to conveners
  • March 15, 2022: Official deadline for white paper submission to arXiv
  • May 31, 2022: Preliminary reports by the Topical Groups
  • June 30, 2022: Preliminary reports by the Frontiers
  • July, 2022: Snowmass Community Summer Study (CSS) at UW-Seattle
  • September 30, 2022: All final reports by TGs and Frontiers
  • October 31, 2022: Snowmass Book and the on-line archive documents

Computational Frontier Report Structure

  • Frontier Summary (~20-50 pages)
  • Topical Group Reports (~20-50 pages per Topical Group)

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Current topics and leads

Storage: Carlos Maltzahn, Peter Van Gemmeren and Bo Jayatilaka

Processing: Meifeng Lin and Ian Fisk

AI Hardware: Javier Duarte and Nhan Tran

Analysis facilities: Oksana Shadura, Mark Neubauer and Gordon Watts

Edge Services: Ofer Rind and Benjamin Weaver

Networking: Eli Dart, Chin Guok and Shawn McKee

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Plan for this workshop

  • Topics are at different stages: some have planned multiple talks with more open discussions, others already have a skeleton of key priorities
  • Thursday:
    • Plenary summary talk(s) on key R&D topics from (e.g.) whitepapers, other reports, previous snowmass events and community
  • Friday:
    • Parallel sessions in each topic for further talks and detailed discussion,working towards priorities for sections of topical group report
    • Plenary summary of those priorities and next steps

Live notes google doc

NEXT STEPS:

  • Topic leads and volunteers write sections of report
  • Aim to put together draft report by end-April, further meetings in April/May as needed for topics and then if needed for overall topical group report