ICALEPCS 2025 - The 20th International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems

Session

THKG Keynote

THKG

25 Sept 2025, 08:30

Grand Ballroom (Palmer House Hilton Chicago)

Conveners

THKG Keynote

• Karen White (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

614. Trillion-Parameter Foundation Models as Discovery Accelerators: Toward a Scientific Discovery Platform (THKG001)

Ian Foster (Argonne National Laboratory)

25/09/2025, 08:30

Keynotes

Invited Keynote

Trillion-parameter, science-tuned foundation models can speed discovery, but only inside an AI-native Scientific Discovery Platform (SDP) that connects models to tools, data, HPC, and robotics. I argue for community co-development of the SDP, via open interfaces, shared schedulers, knowledge substrates, provenance, and evaluation, alongside shared models. Early results suggest that such a...