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.
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@article{arxiv.2511.01861,
title = {Conceptual Design Report for FAIR Computing},
author = {Johan Messchendorp and Mohammad Al-Turany and Volker Friese and Thorsten Kollegger and Bastian Loeher and Jochen Markert and Andrew Mistry and Thomas Neff and Adrian Oeftiger and Michael Papenbrock and Stephane Pietri and Shahab Sanjari and Tobias Stockmanns},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.01861},
year = {2025}
}
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88 pages, Conceptual Design Report for FAIR Computing