🎉 Happy New Year!

A New Year update summarizing ongoing projects including AuroraGPT, AERIS, and other involvements at Argonne.

Sam Foreman 2026-01-07

• Ongoing Projects
• Additional Involvements

I’d like to try and post more this year.

Ideally these would be less-polished, more-frequent updates on what I’m thinking about / working on.

Ongoing Projects

• AuroraGPT: Large Language Models for Scientific Applications on leadership-class supercomputers¹.

  Additional details can be found in some of my recent talks:

  • AuroraGPT: Training Foundation Models on Supercomputers
  • Training Foundation Models on Supercomputers

• AERIS: Argonne Earth Systems Model for Reliable and Skillful Predictions (Hatanpää et al. (2025)).

  Foundation models for Earth system science, pushing on coupled modeling, uncertainty, and long-horizon prediction. Additional details can be found in some of my recent talks:

  • AERIS: Argonne’s Earth Systems Model
  • Training Foundation Models on Supercomputers

• 🍋 ezpz: A growing collection of utilities for launching, instrumenting, and debugging distributed jobs on real HPC systems.

  This started as glue code and turned into infrastructure. A dedicated post is coming.

• Genesis Project

  • The American Science Cloud (AmSC): A Platform for Transformative Science

    More info

    Cornerstone of the Genesis Mission’s Platform infrastructure, hosting and distributing AI models and scientific data to the broader research community. AmSC will enable the National Labs, industry, and research partners to curate and apply DOE’s extensive AI-ready scientific data.

  • The Transformational AI Models Consortium (ModCon): Cornerstone of the Genesis Mission’s AI models and data efforts,

    More info

    Cornerstone of the Genesis Mission’s AI models and data efforts, will build and deploy self-improving AI models that advance science, engineering, and energy missions by harnessing DOE’s unique data, facilities, and expertise. Selected teams will develop foundational capabilities needed across multiple scientific and engineering domains.

Additional Involvements

• DeepSpeed Technical Steering Committee²

  More info

  The DeepSpeed Technical Steering Committee (TSC) is responsible for guiding the overall direction and development of the DeepSpeed project.

• CPSC: Member of the Coordinating Panel for Software and Computing.

  More info

  The Coordinating Panel for Software and Computing (CPSC) serves as a forum for the U.S. high energy physics (HEP) community to address shared challenges in scientific computing.

  Hosted by the Division of Particles and Fields (DPF) of the American Physical Society(APS), the panel brings together researchers, developers, institutions, and industry partners to strengthen the software and computing ecosystem that underpins modern HEP research. Through coordination, advocacy, and community-building, CPSC works to foster innovation, support career development, and ensure the computing infrastructure evolves to meet the demands of current and future experiments.