Federated IRI Science Testbed (FIRST): A Concept Note

Technical Report · Fri Dec 01 04:00:00 EST 2023

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/2205149· OSTI ID:2205149

Monga, Inder ^[1]; Guok, Chin ^[1]; Shankar, Mallikarjun ^[2]

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1. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
2. Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF)

The Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) vision for an Integrated Research Infrastructure (IRI) is to empower researchers to smoothly and securely meld the DOE’s world-class user facilities and research infrastructure in novel ways in order to radically accelerate discovery and innovation. Performant IRI arises through the continuous interoperability of research workflows with compute, storage, and networking infrastructure, fulfilling researchers’ quests to gain insight from observational and experimental data. Decades of successful research, pilot projects, and demonstrations point to the extraordinary promise of IRI but also indicate the intertwined technological, policy, and sociological hurdles it presents. Creating, developing, and stewarding the conditions for seamless interoperability of DOE research infrastructure, with clear value propositions to stakeholders to opt into an IRI ecosystem, will be the next big step. Governance, funding, and resource allocation are beyond the scope of this document: it seeks to provide a high-level view of potential benefits, focus areas, and the working groups whose formation would further define the testbed’s design, activities, and goals.

• Research Organization: US Department of Energy (USDOE), Washington, DC (United States). Office of Science
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC)
• OSTI ID: 2205149
• Report Number(s): LBNL--2001553; 24-SN-35056
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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