This white paper presents the current status of the R&D for Analysis Facilities (AFs) and attempts to summarize the views on the future direction of these facilities. These views have been collected through the High Energy Physics (HEP) Software Foundation's (HSF) Analysis Facilities forum, established in March 2022, the Analysis Ecosystems II workshop, that took place in May 2022, and the WLCG/HSF pre-CHEP workshop, that took place in May 2023. The paper attempts to cover all the aspects of an analysis facility.
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@article{arxiv.2404.02100,
title = {Analysis Facilities White Paper},
author = {D. Ciangottini and A. Forti and L. Heinrich and N. Skidmore and C. Alpigiani and M. Aly and D. Benjamin and B. Bockelman and L. Bryant and J. Catmore and M. D'Alfonso and A. Delgado Peris and C. Doglioni and G. Duckeck and P. Elmer and J. Eschle and M. Feickert and J. Frost and R. Gardner and V. Garonne and M. Giffels and J. Gooding and E. Gramstad and L. Gray and B. Hegner and A. Held and J. Hernández and B. Holzman and F. Hu and B. K. Jashal and D. Kondratyev and E. Kourlitis and L. Kreczko and I. Krommydas and T. Kuhr and E. Lancon and C. Lange and D. Lange and J. Lange and P. Lenzi and T. Linden and V. Martinez Outschoorn and S. McKee and J. F. Molina and M. Neubauer and A. Novak and I. Osborne and F. Ould-Saada and A. P. Pages and K. Pedro and A. Perez-Calero Yzquierdo and S. Piperov and J. Pivarski and E. Rodrigues and N. Sahoo and A. Sciaba and M. Schulz and L. Sexton-Kennedy and O. Shadura and T. Šimko and N. Smith and D. Spiga and G. Stark and G. Stewart and I. Vukotic and G. Watts},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.02100},
year = {2024}
}