SPECTRUM Technical Blueprint and Strategic Agenda: Delivering Europe's Roadmap for Exabyte-Scale Scientific Infrastructure

Presentation delivered for ACUD2025 in Utrecht, Netherlands on December 4th, 2025

https://pretalx.surf.nl/acud-2025/talk/QKLGP7/

This presentation introduces the public draft of SPECTRUM's Technical Blueprint and Strategic Research, Innovation and Deployment Agenda (SRIDA) for European data-intensive science infrastructure. The Technical Blueprint addresses the technical aspects whilst the SRIDA defines the strategic and policy dimensions of a unified European compute and data continuum. Both are based on comprehensive requirements analysis from High-Energy Physics and Radio Astronomy communities, including HL-LHC's exabyte-scale data processing, SKA's unprecedented computational demands, and LOFAR's distributed data processing challenges. We invite the advanced computing community to provide feedback during the open consultation phase to ensure the final documents address the research infrastructure needs.