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Globus Labs is a research group led by @ianfoster42.bsky.social and @kylechard.bsky.social that aims to realize a world in which all research data are reliably, rapidly, and securely accessible, discoverable, and usable.

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Globus Labs @globuslabs.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
If you're interested in distributed computing, the APeX Summit (Academy, Parsl, Globus Compute) is approaching. This meeting brings together researchers, developers, and cyberinfrastructure experts worldwide to discuss experiences and define future directions. parsl-project.org/parslfest/ap...
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Parsl: Parallel Scripting in Python
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Globus Labs @globuslabs.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
AI agents are showing up everywhere in science right now, but deploying them on real research infrastructure presents unique challenges: e.g., federated authentication, restrictive networks, diverse compute, and systems that aren't always up. Paper: doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...
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Globus Labs @globuslabs.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Lens methods let researchers watch an LLM's predictions form layer by layer, but apply them to larger LLMs has been problematic. Towards this end, the team has developed OmniLens: low-rank translators cut trainable parameters by up to 98%, and Subset-KL training slashes peak memory by up to 70%.
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Globus Labs @globuslabs.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The LLM Hackathon for Applications in Materials and Chemistry is now the Open Scientific Intelligence Hackathon! Hosted by @benblaiszik.bsky.social, our next event is Oct 21–22, 2026 — free, hybrid, worldwide, now covering physical sciences & math too. Register: llmhackathon.github.io
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Open Scientific Intelligence (OSI) Hackathon for the Physical Sciences & Mathematics
The Open Scientific Intelligence (OSI) Hackathon runs October 21–22, 2026. Formerly the LLM Hackathon for Materials Science & Chemistry — now covering agents, datasets, models, and scientific software...
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Globus Labs @globuslabs.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Congratulations to Dr. J. Gregory Pauloski on winning the SIGHPC 2026 Doctoral Dissertation Award for his dissertation, "Programming the Continuum: Towards Better Techniques for Developing Distributed Science Applications"! 🎉 www.sighpc.org/opportunitie...
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Meeting Your Needs - 2026 Award Winner
Dr. J. Gregory Pauloski, a graduate of the University of Chicago Recognized for his dissertation "Programming the Continuum: Towards Better Techniques for Developing Distributed Science Applications” ...
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Globus Labs @globuslabs.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Our DSI summer student, Ben Mechels, recently presented his research on “Transit-Layer Tensor Representation for Serverless Inference” at Argonne National Labs! www.anl.gov/event/transi...
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Transit-Layer Tensor Representation for Serverless Inference
Abstract: The scale of frontier machine learning (ML) systems has led to an increasing need to efficiently store and transfer model weights. This talk introduces Condense, an ultra-fast method of comp...
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Globus Labs @globuslabs.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Congratulations to our postdoc Suman Raj on being accepted to the Early Careers Program at SC '26! sc26.supercomputing.org/program/earl...
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Early Career • SC26
The Early Career program is a series of workshop-style sessions and pre-conference webinars for people in the early stages of their careers.
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Globus Labs @globuslabs.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Congrats to @kylechard.bsky.social and @benblaiszik.bsky.social on being a part of the new NSF Materials Innovation Platforms at @uwmadison.bsky.social! The initiative will advance materials research through AI, automation, and expand access to cutting-edge facilities. www.nsf.gov/news/nsf-sta...
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NSF stands up 2 Materials Innovation Platforms with $50M investment
The U.S. National Science Foundation is investing $50 million in research infrastructure to enable the discovery and development of materials that can withstand extreme conditions, from lightweight…
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Globus Labs @globuslabs.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
We’re thrilled to be part of PoLARIS, a new AI- and robotics-powered laboratory supported by a $20M NSF award! The project will expand access to advanced materials research for scientists nationwide. cs.uchicago.edu/news/remotel...
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Remotely Operated, Robotic Lab Receives $20 Million National Science Foundation Grant - Department of Computer Science
Tomorrow’s clean energy, advanced manufacturing, healthcare, and national defense rely on developing novel, next-generation soft materials – things like liquids, polymers, gels, colloids, foams, and g...
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Globus Labs @globuslabs.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
We're excited to have our summer students Alex Zhang and Eva Neves from UChicago Lab Schools, Francesca Kang from Kenwood Academy, Noah Runesha from Princeton, and Ben Mechels from UMN join Globus Labs. Wishing them a summer of curiosity, collaboration, and discovery!🎉
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Globus Labs @globuslabs.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
We're heading to #ISC26 in Hamburg, June 22–26! 🚀 Join us for a hands-on Academy tutorial, Kyle's talk on agentic AI, and our Icicle talk on scalable metadata indexing for HPC file systems. Stop by the Globus booth F11 and see our ISC schedule: www.globus.org/events/isc-h...
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ISC 2026
Join us at ISC 2026.
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Globus Labs @globuslabs.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Thrilled to share that last week, Owen Price Skelly presented at MLCM-26 on how Garden and RootStock help materials scientists use state-of-the-art MLIPs on HPC. Check them out: thegardens.ai garden-ai.github.io/rootstock/
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Garden
Build a garden where your model can thrive.
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Globus Labs @globuslabs.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
SciFM’26 at UChicago was a blast! 🎉 Proud to see our PhD student Song Oh present “Searching the Pareto Front,” exploring multi-objective retrieval for heterogeneous scientific modalities and late-fusion embeddings for scientific discovery. www.scifmconferences.org
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SciFM Conferences | Scientific Foundation Models and AI Agents
scifmconferences.org is the official website of the Scientific Foundation Models Conferences (SciFM24, SciFM25, & SciFM26) organized by the University of Chicago, the Michigan Institute for Computatio...
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Globus Labs @globuslabs.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
We will be giving a tutorial on Academy at ISC on June 22nd!
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Globus Labs @globuslabs.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Kyle, Ian, Yadu, and Alok will give a tutorial on Academy at IPDPS on May 26th
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Globus Labs @globuslabs.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
We're excited to share that Gus Ellerm has joined Globus Labs as a postdoc 🎉 He earned his PhD from the University of Canterbury working on provenance in scientific systems and developing self-updating research publications integrated with LLMs.
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Globus Labs @globuslabs.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Introducing Groundhog 🦫☀️, a package to make working with HPC Python functions across servers delightful - especially if you need multiple tries to get it right! groundhog-hpc.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
The Groundhog logo: a whimsical and stoic groundhog stands upright, encircled by arrows.
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Globus Labs @globuslabs.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Globus Streaming in now available at www.globus.org/streaming-data. Go check it out!
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Globus Labs @globuslabs.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Ian gave two talks at SCA/HPCAsia 2026: "System Requirements for Scalable Agentic AI" and "Agentic Systems for Vaccine Design" Great discussions on how agentic systems can transform scientific computing and accelerate discovery. www.sca-hpcasia2026.jp
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SCA/HPCAsia 2026
Website of SCA/HPCAsia 2026 to be held at Osaka International Convention Center, Japan, January 26-29, 2026.
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Globus Labs @globuslabs.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Our paper "Empowering Scientific Workflows with Federated Agents" has been accepted to IPDPS'26! We introduce Academy - middleware for deploying autonomous agents across HPC systems, experimental facilities & data repositories. github.com/academy-agen...
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GitHub - academy-agents/academy: Build and deploy stateful agents across federated resources
Build and deploy stateful agents across federated resources - academy-agents/academy
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Globus Labs @globuslabs.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
New work! We show that machine-learned operators (MLOs) for PDEs struggle with accurate zero-shot multi-resolution inference. Popular fixes don’t solve it, but multi-resolution training offers robust, cost-effective modeling across scales! github.com/msakarvadia/operator_ali…
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Globus Labs @globuslabs.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Thank you to Samuel Kounev and Nikolas Herbst for hosting Ian and Kyle at the SOS project meeting (dfg-sos.de) and the University of Würzburg.
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Globus Labs @globuslabs.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Alok gave a talk on "Building Scalable Agentic Systems for Science with Academy" at the Agentic AI for User Facilities workshop (indico.physics.lbl.gov/event/3209/)
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Agentic AI for User Facilities
Agentic AI, systems that autonomously sense, decide, and act, is rapidly transforming operations across the Department of Energy’s user facilities. This two-day workshop will convene experts from ligh...
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Globus Labs @globuslabs.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Ian gave an invited talk at the University of Würzburg on "Accelerating Discovery with Intelligent Agents"
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Globus Labs @globuslabs.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
We're excited to share that Suman Raj has joined Globus Labs as a postdoc.
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Globus Labs @globuslabs.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
LSHBloom, a memory-efficient way to deduplicate documents at scale - critical for LLM training pipelines - has been included in the Datasketch package for easy use. See the results of our Exascale document deduplication and more details about LSHBloom in the paper at: arxiv.org/abs/2411.04257
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Globus Labs @globuslabs.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
@danielgrzenda.bsky.social presented his work on MOFA at Climate Frontiers (climate.uchicago.edu/climate-fron...)
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Globus Labs @globuslabs.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Hai Duc Nguyen presented a poster to the Argonne's Postdoctoral Research and Career Symposium 2025 on "Resilient Execution of Distributed X-Ray Image Analysis Workflows" on Friday, 10/31 tinyurl.com/4av9xnsx
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Frontiers | Resilient execution of distributed X-ray image analysis workflows
Long-running scientific workflows, such as tomographic data analysis pipelines, are prone to a variety of failures, including hardware and network disruption...
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Globus Labs @globuslabs.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Hai Duc Nguyen’s paper, “Efficient Performance Guarantees for Function-as-a-Service with Cloud Allocators,” has been accepted for publication at Middleware 2025.
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Globus Labs @globuslabs.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Check out the new Chemical Foundation Model paper done in collaboration with UofM: arxiv.org/pdf/2510.18900
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Globus Labs @globuslabs.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Maxime Gonthier presented his work on "Failure-Aware and Deadline-Constrained Scheduling for Mixed-Criticality HPC Workloads" (inria.hal.science/hal-05190988...) to the Data & AI Systems Research Section at ORNL.
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Globus Labs @globuslabs.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Our work in collaboration with the Gagliardi group: “Cartesian Equivariant Representations for Learning and Understanding Molecular Orbitals” accepted to the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) chemrxiv.org/engage/api-g... @danielgrzenda.bsky.social @nathaniel-hudson.bsky.social
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Globus Labs @globuslabs.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Kyle is presenting in the "Solving Data Management Challenges with Globus – from Zero to Hero in one day" tutorial and participating in the Enabling Research Connectivity: The Strategic Role of Data Mobility in an Integrated National Research Infrastructure Ecosystem. BoF at eResearch Australasia.
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eResearch Australasia Conference
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Globus Labs @globuslabs.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
@ianfoster42.bsky.social gave a talk “Scaling Reasoning, Scaling Science: Engineering an AI-Native Scientific Discovery Platform” to Google Cloud, presenting a vision for how frontier-scale reasoning models can be integrated with scientific infrastructure to accelerate discovery.
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Globus Labs @globuslabs.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
🎉The SC25 Test of Time Award goes to "The Globus Striped GridFTP Framework and Server"! Their pioneering work revolutionized secure, high-performance data movement, shaping scientific discovery for decades. Congrats to the team! #GridFTP #Supercomputing sc25.supercomputing.org/2025/10/last...
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Lasting Innovation in Data Movement: SC25 Test of Time Award • SC25
The annual Test of Time Award recognizes an outstanding paper that has deeply influenced the HPC discipline.
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Globus Labs @globuslabs.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
🧪🚀 Exciting breakthrough! Our new paper presents a an algorithm that combines #ML & #ActiveLearning to turbocharge discovery of novel materials. By smarter candidate selection, our method doubles high-performing discoveries for carbon capture molecules! #MaterialsScience
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Globus Labs @globuslabs.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
👨‍💻 Don’t miss the iCNS Distinguished Lecture by Dr. @kylechard.bsky.social! Learn how federated agentic middleware & serverless systems are revolutionizing scientific computing—integrating diverse resources, and enabling high-throughput discovery. www.stevens.edu/events/icns-...
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iCNS Distinguished Lecture: Scaling Autonomy: Federated Agentic Middleware and Serverless Systems for Scientific Computing
Presented by Kyle Chard, Research Associate Professor, University of Chicago. Hosted by the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
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Globus Labs @globuslabs.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Haibin Lai and Maxime Gonthier presenting at ICPP!
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Globus Labs @globuslabs.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Congratulations to Globus Labs alum @tkurihana.bsky.social on his new position as a Senior Researcher at Fujitsu Research Converging Technologies Laboratory! 🎉🎊
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Globus Labs @globuslabs.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Check out our latest preprint (arxiv.org/abs/2508.18489), we explore using the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to connect AI agents with HPC and scientific services, making research cyberinfrastructure (CI) discoverable, invokable, and composable.
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Experiences with Model Context Protocol Servers for Science and High Performance Computing
Large language model (LLM)-powered agents are increasingly used to plan and execute scientific workflows, yet most research cyberinfrastructure (CI) exposes heterogeneous APIs and implements security ...
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Globus Labs @globuslabs.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
ParslFest 2025 was a huge success! Thank you to all 40 speakers and all who attended in person and online: parsl-project.org/parslfest/pa...
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Parsl: Parallel Scripting in Python
ParslFest will be held at the University of Chicago at the John Crear Library (Room 390). 📍 Address: 5730 S. Ellis Ave. Chicago, 60637
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Globus Labs @globuslabs.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Our paper “Steering an Active Learning Workflow Towards Novel Materials Discovery via Queue Prioritization” by Marcus Schwarting, Logan Ward, Nathaniel Hudson, and others is nominated for Best Paper at this year’s e-Science conference! 🎉
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Globus Labs @globuslabs.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
🚀 Join us for ParslFest 2025! Meet researchers, developers, and cyberinfrastructure experts to share experiences and explore the latest in Parsl and Globus Compute. 📅 Aug 28–29 | 🏙️ Chicago & 🌐 Virtual (free) 🔗 Register now: parsl-project.org/parslfest/pa...
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Globus Labs @globuslabs.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
That's a wrap on GLabs Summer '25! 🎓🚀 Huge thanks to our summer students for your energy at GLabs: Daniel Babnigg, Edwin Ma, Jin Das, Naomi Kolodisner, Santhusha Mudannayaka, Shivalika Chaudhary, Suryatejas Appana, and Rui Wang. Can't wait to see what you build next!
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Globus Labs @globuslabs.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Congrats to postdoc Maxime Gonthier!🎉 His work “A scheduler to foster data locality for GPU and out-of-core task-based linear algebra applications” has been accepted for publication at the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing.
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Globus Labs @globuslabs.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Jin Das, a student from Columbia with the DSI Summer Lab Program, has been working with @danielgrzenda.bsky.social. She’ll present “TideCast: Benchmarking Deep Learning Models for Water Level Prediction” at the DSI Research Symposium on Friday. It's been great working with you this summer, Jin!
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Globus Labs @globuslabs.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Naomi Kolodisner, a University of Arizona student, has been working with Alok/Greg on genomics workflows using Academy and Parsl. She'll present her work: "Adaptive Tool Selection in a Scalable Genomics Pipeline" tomorrow at the CI-Compass Fellowship Summer Symposium. Awesome job this summer Naomi!
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Globus Labs @globuslabs.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
@ianfoster42.bsky.social will be speaking on the AI & Science Panel (kdd2025.kdd.org/kdd-ai-scien...) this week at #KDD25. Don't miss it! 😉
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KDD AI & Science Panel – KDD 2025
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Globus Labs @globuslabs.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
🚀 Last week at #TPC25 (tpc25.org), @ianfoster42.bsky.social delivered two keynotes and also joined the closing panel: 1️⃣ Scaling Reasoning, Scaling Science: Engineering an AI-Native Scientific Discovery Platform 2️⃣ A Case Study of the System Software/Middleware Needs for Agents
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The Trillion Parameter Consortium
Convening AI leaders globally from industry, academia, and national laboratories
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Globus Labs @globuslabs.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Excited to see our "MProt-DPO framework for protein design featured on SciShow" as a highlight Aurora application! 🎥 Watch the segment: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pC3Q...
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