At signing ceremony, from left to right: RIKEN R-CCS Director Satoshi Matsuoka; Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Yasuyoshi Kakita; Corporate Executive Officer, Corporate Vice President, CTO, in charge of System Platform, Fujitsu Limited Vivek Mahajan; RIKEN President Makoto Gonokami; Argonne Associate Laboratory Director for Computing, Environment and Life Sciences Rick Stevens; Vice President, Global Sales and Business Development for HPC/AI/Supercomputing, NVIDIA Corporation John Josephakis; DOE Under Secretary for Science Darío Gil. (Credit: RIKEN)
Argonne National Laboratory has entered into a partnership with RIKEN, Fujitsu Limited and NVIDIA to advance artificial intelligence and high performance computing to accelerate scientific discovery.
The agreement, based on a memorandum of understanding signed January 27, will aligns with DOE’s Genesis Mission, a national initiative to use AI capabilities to accelerate discovery science, strengthen national security and drive energy innovation.
Building on an earlier agreement Argonne and RIKEN signed in 2024, the four organizations will work together to develop next-generation computing infrastructure, create and evaluate system software and applications for science and engineering, and promote the use of advanced AI technologies to accelerate scientific discovery.
“This collaboration represents a pivotal step forward in harnessing the transformative potential of AI and HPC to address pressing scientific challenges in energy, national security and fundamental research,” Laboratory Director Paul Kearns said. “Together we’re building a foundation for next-generation computing architectures and AI-driven scientific discovery that advances the Genesis Mission goals.”
Activities will include joint meetings, workshops and community engagement. Key areas of collaboration include:
- Future HPC and AI architectures: Design and prototype next-generation computing architectures that integrate modeling, simulation and AI to tackle complex scientific problems.
- Integrated HPC systems and platforms: Develop and validate end-to-end computing systems that seamlessly integrate hardware, software and the facilities that house them.
- Shared software ecosystem for AI-enabled science: Build a shared, open software stack that supports large-scale, AI-driven scientific research.
- Flagship AI for science applications: Demonstrate the real-world impact of AI through high-value scientific applications that help shape future computing systems and software.
- Laboratory experiment automation: Use AI and robotics to automate laboratory experiments.
- Accelerated quantum computing: Explore how combining quantum computing and AI can deliver practical, large-scale capabilities for scientific research.
