No. 128 (00296) Family name : Sakamoto Given name : Hiroshi Affiliation : International Center for Elementary Particle Physics, the University of Tokyo Abbreviation : ICEPP E-mail address : sakamoto@icepp.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp Title : A Basic R&D for an Analysis Framework Distributed on Wide Area Network Authors : M. Ishino, T. Kawamoto, T. Kobayashi, T. Mashimo, H. Matsumoto,H. Sakamoto, J. Tanaka, I. Ueda, S. Kawabata, A. Manabe, Y. Morita, T. Sasaki, H. Sato and W. Watase Abstract : Present status is reported on several R&D issues related to world-wide computing for forthcoming high energy experiments. They include (1) high performance massive data transfer techniques on large latency WAN, (2) high throughput data storage mechanisms covering disk arrays and hierarchical storage architecture.