Towards a modular architecture for science factories

Vescovi, Rafael; Ginsburg, Tobias; Hippe, Kyle; Ozgulbas, Doga; Stone, Casey; Stroka, Abraham; Butler, Rory; Blaiszik, Ben; Brettin, Tom; Chard, Kyle; Hereld, Mark; Ramanathan, Arvind; Stevens, Rick; Vriza, Aikaterini; Xu, Jie; Zhang, Qingteng; Foster, Ian

doi:10.1039/D3DD00142C

Title: Towards a modular architecture for science factories

Journal Article · 03 December 2023 · Digital Discovery

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D3DD00142C · OSTI ID:2212836

Vescovi, Rafael ^[1]; Ginsburg, Tobias ^[1]; Hippe, Kyle ^[1]; Ozgulbas, Doga ^[1]; Stone, Casey ^[1]; Stroka, Abraham ^[1]; Butler, Rory ^[1];

^[2]; Brettin, Tom ^[1]; Chard, Kyle ^[2];

^[2]; Ramanathan, Arvind ^[1]; Stevens, Rick ^[2];

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Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL 60439, USA
Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL 60439, USA, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA

Advances in robotic automation, high-performance computing, and artificial intelligence encourage us to propose large, general-purpose science factories with the scale needed to tackle large discovery problems and to support thousands of scientists.

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Research Organization:: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE; USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357

OSTI ID:: 2212836

Journal Information:: Digital Discovery, Journal Name: Digital Discovery Journal Issue: 6 Vol. 2; ISSN DDIIAI; ISSN 2635-098X

Publisher:: Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United Kingdom

Language:: English

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