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 Sam Foreman

Computational Scientist · Argonne National Laboratory

I'm a Computational Scientist in the AI / ML Group at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility.

 

My work focuses on large-scale distributed training of foundation models for scientific applications. I co-lead the Models & Pre-Training team for the AuroraGPT project.

 
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󰈙 Recent Posts

Latest writing and notes

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⏱️ Comparing Launchers on Aurora Benchmarking and comparing the performance of different launchers on Aurora at ALCF: `torchrun` vs. `ezpz launch` 02/28/26
🍋 ezpz A history and overview of ezpz, covering AMD and Intel PyTorch enablement timelines for portable distributed training across GPU vendors. 01/10/26
🎉 Happy New Year! A New Year update summarizing ongoing projects including AuroraGPT, AERIS, and other involvements at Argonne. 01/07/26
🧊 Cooling Down Checkpoints: Best Practices for Model Evaluation Best practices for cooling down model checkpoints before evaluation to improve validation loss comparisons. 11/12/25
🎨 Mixing Between Distributions While Training A mathematical framework for smoothly interpolating between data distributions during training using an annealing schedule. 10/06/25
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AuroraGPT: Training Foundation Models on Supercomputers 12/25
Training Foundation Models on Supercomputers 10/25
Training Foundation Models on Supercomputers 10/25
AERIS: Argonne's Earth Systems Model 10/25
Training Foundation Models on Supercomputers 09/25
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