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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.
@danielgrzenda.bsky.social presented his work on MOFA at Climate Frontiers (climate.uchicago.edu/climate-fron...)
November 4, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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
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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November 4, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Hai Duc Nguyen’s paper, “Efficient Performance Guarantees for Function-as-a-Service with Cloud Allocators,” has been accepted for publication at Middleware 2025.
November 4, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Check out the new Chemical Foundation Model paper done in collaboration with UofM: arxiv.org/pdf/2510.18900
arxiv.org
November 4, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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.
inria.hal.science
October 28, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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
chemrxiv.org
October 27, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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.
eResearch Australasia Conference
conference.eresearch.edu.au
October 17, 2025 at 10:12 PM
@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.
October 17, 2025 at 10:03 PM
🎉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...
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.
sc25.supercomputing.org
October 6, 2025 at 4:45 PM
🧪🚀 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
October 6, 2025 at 1:44 PM
👨‍💻 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-...
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.
www.stevens.edu
October 6, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Haibin Lai and Maxime Gonthier presenting at ICPP!
September 16, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Congratulations to Globus Labs alum @tkurihana.bsky.social on his new position as a Senior Researcher at Fujitsu Research Converging Technologies Laboratory! 🎉🎊
September 9, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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.
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 ...
arxiv.org
September 9, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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...
September 9, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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! 🎉
August 26, 2025 at 2:22 PM
🚀 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...
August 26, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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!
August 25, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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.
August 14, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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!
August 5, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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!
August 5, 2025 at 10:04 PM
@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! 😉
KDD AI & Science Panel – KDD 2025
kdd2025.kdd.org
August 5, 2025 at 9:07 PM
🚀 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
The Trillion Parameter Consortium
Convening AI leaders globally from industry, academia, and national laboratories
tpc25.org
August 5, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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...
August 1, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Thrilled to present "Globus as a Case Study in Sustainable Research Software Development" at the NSF CSSI/CyberTraining/SCIPE PI meeting plenary session!
Check it out to see how long-term vision and community collaboration drive sustainable research infrastructure:
confmeet.github.io/2025NSFCyber...
August 1, 2025 at 5:04 PM