{"id":3312,"date":"2023-08-17T16:20:24","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T00:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/?p=3312"},"modified":"2023-08-30T16:20:47","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T00:20:47","slug":"updates-on-ai-for-big-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/2023\/08\/17\/updates-on-ai-for-big-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Updates on AI for big science"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a lot of things happening on the front of AI for Big Science (AI for large scale facilities, such as synchrotrons.)<\/p>The recently published DOE report in AI for Science, Energy, and Security Report<\/a> provides interesting insights, and a much-needed update to the\u00a0AI for Science Report of 2020<\/a>.<\/p>Computing Facilities are upgrading to provide scientists the tools to engage with the latest advances in machine learning. I recently visited NERSC’s Perlmutter supercomputer, and it is LOADED with GPU for AI training<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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A rack of Tesla A100 from the Perlmutter supercomputer at NERSC\/Berkeley Lab<\/p>\n<\/div>

Meanwhile, companies with large computing capabilities are making interesting forays in using AI for science, for instance Meta, which is developing OpenCatalyst<\/a> in collaboration with Carnegie-Mellon University, where the goal is to create AI models to speed up the study of catalysts, which are generally very computer-intensive (see the Berkeley Lab Materials Project<\/a>.) Now the cool part is to verify these results using x-ray diffraction at a synchrotron facilities. Something a little similar happened with AlphaFold\u00a0where newly derived\u00a0structure may need to be tested with x-rays at the Advanced Light Source:\u00a0Deep-Learning AI Program Accurately Predicts Key Rotavirus Protein Fold<\/a> (ALS News)<\/p><\/p>\n

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NERSC’s Cori<\/a> supercomputer at Berkeley Lab (previously in the Top 5<\/a> of the TOP500 ranking of supercomputers), in August 2023 right after its decommissioning in\u00a0May 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Aurora<\/h3>

Earlier this year I was lucky to visit the rooms of Aurora<\/a>, an exascale computer facility currently being commissioned at Argonne National Laboratory. That is a BEAST, but contrary to NERSC’s computer, this one is part of the Leadership Computing Facility flavor of DOE supercomputers, and it is generally not open to external users.<\/p>\n

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Aurora room at Argonne National Laboratory (April 2023)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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