With Data Management as part of the strategic plan for Lab-wide computing, a workshop would be a good stepping stone to bringing the data management community together and identifying common tools and directions to move in. Data management is here loosely defined as moving and storing files/data, cataloguing and accessing them.

In broad brush:

• get more detail of existing solutions at SLAC: Fermi, LCLS, BABAR...
• survey solutions in the community
• interview projects in need of DM solutions - eg cosmology computing; maybe someone like Todd Martinez; SSRL, LCLS users etc.
• collect the people from the first bullet to discuss common solutions that could be recommended to pursue.
• think about evolution of current DM solutions to a more common base over some timeframe - and what can be done jointly with other projects

Time frame: Feb 2012
Duration: 2 days

Tony Johnson has listed these items (with the odd edit) as potentially of interest:

• encompass disk and tape storage technologies and file-systems (lustre, xrootd etc).
• The aspects of DAQ concerned with pushing those bits out
• Transfer from DAQ to long term storage
• The data access patterns, analysis and reconstruction bandwidth
• Data storage formats (root, fits, hdf5, databases, ...). Optimization
  of data storage formats for SSD
• Need for scaling storage to support massive parallelization (multiple
  simultaneous write streams, massively parallel read streams)
• Data Catalogs, eg iRODS etc
• Offsite access to data, e.g. for Fermi download manager, or Globus Online
• Skimming tools, e.g. for Fermi skimmer, astro server
• Long-term data archive, "Cloud" storage