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20202025
most citedColmena: Scalable Machine-Learning-Based Steering of Ensemble Simulations for High Performance Computing

51 citations · 98 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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21 papers

cs.MA2025★ 1 cited

Agentic Discovery: Closing the Loop with Cooperative Agents

J. Gregory Pauloski, Kyle Chard, Ian T. Foster

As data-driven methods, artificial intelligence (AI), and automated workflows accelerate scientific tasks, we see the rate of discovery increasingly limited by human decision-makin…

cs.DC2025

DynoStore: A wide-area distribution system for the management of data over heterogeneous storage

Dante D. Sanchez-Gallegos, J. L. Gonzalez-Compean, Maxime Gonthier +6

Data distribution across different facilities offers benefits such as enhanced resource utilization, increased resilience through replication, and improved performance by processin…

cs.DC2025★ 3 cited

D-Rex: Heterogeneity-Aware Reliability Framework and Adaptive Algorithms for Distributed Storage

Maxime Gonthier, Dante D. Sanchez-Gallegos, Haochen Pan +8

The exponential growth of data necessitates distributed storage models, such as peer-to-peer systems and data federations. While distributed storage can reduce costs and increase r…

cs.CE2025★ 1 cited

AERO: An autonomous platform for continuous research

Valérie Hayot-Sasson, Abby Stevens, Nicholson Collier +10

The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the need for new data infrastructure, as epidemiologists and public health workers raced to harness rapidly evolving data, analytics, and infrastr…

cs.IR2025★ 8 cited

HiPerRAG: High-Performance Retrieval Augmented Generation for Scientific Insights

Ozan Gokdemir, Carlo Siebenschuh, Alexander Brace +21

The volume of scientific literature is growing exponentially, leading to underutilized discoveries, duplicated efforts, and limited cross-disciplinary collaboration. Retrieval Augm…

cs.MA2025

Empowering Scientific Workflows with Federated Agents

Alok Kamatar, J. Gregory Pauloski, Yadu Babuji +5

Agentic systems, in which diverse agents cooperate to tackle challenging problems, are exploding in popularity in the AI community. However, existing agentic frameworks take a rela…

cs.DC2025

WRATH: Workload Resilience Across Task Hierarchies in Task-based Parallel Programming Frameworks

Sicheng Zhou, Zhuozhao Li, Valérie Hayot-Sasson +6

Failures in Task-based Parallel Programming (TBPP) can severely degrade performance and result in incomplete or incorrect outcomes. Existing failure-handling approaches, including…

cs.DC2025★ 2 cited

MOFA: Discovering Materials for Carbon Capture with a GenAI- and Simulation-Based Workflow

Xiaoli Yan, Nathaniel Hudson, Hyun Park +15

We present MOFA, an open-source generative AI (GenAI) plus simulation workflow for high-throughput generation of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) on large-scale high-performance com…

cs.DC2024

Accelerating Python Applications with Dask and ProxyStore

J. Gregory Pauloski, Klaudiusz Rydzy, Valerie Hayot-Sasson +2

Applications are increasingly written as dynamic workflows underpinned by an execution framework that manages asynchronous computations across distributed hardware. However, execut…

cs.LG2024

Flight: A FaaS-Based Framework for Complex and Hierarchical Federated Learning

Nathaniel Hudson, Valerie Hayot-Sasson, Yadu Babuji +5

Federated Learning (FL) is a decentralized machine learning paradigm where models are trained on distributed devices and are aggregated at a central server. Existing FL frameworks…

cs.DC2024

Employing Artificial Intelligence to Steer Exascale Workflows with Colmena

Logan Ward, J. Gregory Pauloski, Valerie Hayot-Sasson +6

Computational workflows are a common class of application on supercomputers, yet the loosely coupled and heterogeneous nature of workflows often fails to take full advantage of the…

cs.DC2024

TaPS: A Performance Evaluation Suite for Task-based Execution Frameworks

J. Gregory Pauloski, Valerie Hayot-Sasson, Maxime Gonthier +5

Task-based execution frameworks, such as parallel programming libraries, computational workflow systems, and function-as-a-service platforms, enable the composition of distinct tas…

cs.DC2024

Object Proxy Patterns for Accelerating Distributed Applications

J. Gregory Pauloski, Valerie Hayot-Sasson, Logan Ward +4

Workflow and serverless frameworks have empowered new approaches to distributed application design by abstracting compute resources. However, their typically limited or one-size-fi…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Trillion Parameter AI Serving Infrastructure for Scientific Discovery: A Survey and Vision

Nathaniel Hudson, J. Gregory Pauloski, Matt Baughman +13

Deep learning methods are transforming research, enabling new techniques, and ultimately leading to new discoveries. As the demand for more capable AI models continues to grow, we…

cs.AI2023★ 8 cited

DeepSpeed4Science Initiative: Enabling Large-Scale Scientific Discovery through Sophisticated AI System Technologies

Shuaiwen Leon Song, Bonnie Kruft, Minjia Zhang +89

In the upcoming decade, deep learning may revolutionize the natural sciences, enhancing our capacity to model and predict natural occurrences. This could herald a new era of scient…

cs.DC2023★ 1 cited

Accelerating Communications in Federated Applications with Transparent Object Proxies

J. Gregory Pauloski, Valerie Hayot-Sasson, Logan Ward +5

Advances in networks, accelerators, and cloud services encourage programmers to reconsider where to compute -- such as when fast networks make it cost-effective to compute on remot…

cs.DC2023★ 11 cited

Cloud Services Enable Efficient AI-Guided Simulation Workflows across Heterogeneous Resources

Logan Ward, J. Gregory Pauloski, Valerie Hayot-Sasson +7

Applications that fuse machine learning and simulation can benefit from the use of multiple computing resources, with, for example, simulation codes running on highly parallel supe…

cs.DC2021★ 51 cited

Colmena: Scalable Machine-Learning-Based Steering of Ensemble Simulations for High Performance Computing

Logan Ward, Ganesh Sivaraman, J. Gregory Pauloski +9

Scientific applications that involve simulation ensembles can be accelerated greatly by using experiment design methods to select the best simulations to perform. Methods that use…

cs.LG2021★ 10 cited

KAISA: An Adaptive Second-Order Optimizer Framework for Deep Neural Networks

J. Gregory Pauloski, Qi Huang, Lei Huang +4

Kronecker-factored Approximate Curvature (K-FAC) has recently been shown to converge faster in deep neural network (DNN) training than stochastic gradient descent (SGD); however, K…

cs.CL2021★ 1 cited

AI- and HPC-enabled Lead Generation for SARS-CoV-2: Models and Processes to Extract Druglike Molecules Contained in Natural Language Text

Zhi Hong, J. Gregory Pauloski, Logan Ward +3

Researchers worldwide are seeking to repurpose existing drugs or discover new drugs to counter the disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). A…

cs.LG2020

Convolutional Neural Network Training with Distributed K-FAC

J. Gregory Pauloski, Zhao Zhang, Lei Huang +2

Training neural networks with many processors can reduce time-to-solution; however, it is challenging to maintain convergence and efficiency at large scales. The Kronecker-factored…