Conceptual Design Report for FAIR Computing

TL;DR

This report outlines the conceptual design for FAIR's computing infrastructure, aiming to create a scalable, flexible, and federated system to support diverse research needs from 2028 onward.

Contribution

It introduces a comprehensive plan for FAIR's computing model, policies, and architecture to accommodate future data challenges and research diversity.

Findings

Design of a federated, centrally-orchestrated infrastructure

Policies for open data, software, and services

Scalable architecture for future research needs

Abstract

This Conceptual Design Report (CDR) presents the plans of the computing infrastructure for research at FAIR, Darmstadt, Germany. It presents the computing requirements of the various research groups, the policies for the computing and storage infrastructure, the foreseen FAIR computing model including the open data, software and services policies and architecture for the periods starting in 2028 with the "first science (plus)" phase to the modularized start version of FAIR. The overall ambition is to create a federated and centrally-orchestrated infrastructure serving the large diversity of the research lines present with sufficient scalability and flexibility to cope with future data challenges that will be present at FAIR.