Exploring the Genesis Platform Capabilities to Accelerate Scientific Discovery in OPAL
TL;DR
The plant phenotyping workflow of the Orchestrated Platform for Autonomous Laboratories is explored, which couples Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Advanced Plant Phenotyping Laboratory with the Frontier supercomputer and replaces roughly twelve hours of manual analysis with interactive queries returning in seconds to minutes.
Abstract
Autonomous, cross-facility science requires capabilities that no individual project should have to build for itself: managed execution for long-lived services, versioned distribution of models to remote compute systems, governed access to large language models, a shared substrate for experimental data, and end-to-end provenance. The U.S. Department of Energy Genesis Mission platform, delivered through the American Science Cloud, provides these as reusable services. This paper reports how the Genesis platform enables cross-facility experiments and accelerates scientific discovery. We explore the plant phenotyping workflow of the Orchestrated Platform for Autonomous Laboratories as the exemplar: it couples Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Advanced Plant Phenotyping Laboratory with the Frontier supercomputer. In a 40-day nickel-treatment campaign, the resulting workflow replaced roughly twelve hours of manual analysis with interactive queries returning in seconds to minutes.
