After a great deal of work by all involved, here are the final reports. Although much additional work can always be done, these at least bring up to date our current understanding of the technology area.

Cost Summary Documents

Disk and Processors

Tapes

Full Documents

Working group A report:  Semiconductor Technology

Scope:  processors, memories and basic computer building block

Working group B report:  Secondary Storage

Scope: hard magnetic disks, DVD’s

Working group C report:  Tertiary (mass) Storage

Scope: magnetic tapes, robots.

Working group D report:  Networking Technologies and ICFA Report

Scope: LAN, WAN

Working group E report: Data Management Technologies

Scope: distributed file systems, cluster file systems, journaling 

Working group F report:  Storage Management Solutions

Scope: Network storage (NAS, SAN), mass storage systems

Working group G report:  High Performance Computing Solutions

Scope: systems interconnects, scalable clusters, farms

Modified: 14th March 2003