Enabling AI for Open Science on Supercomputers at NERSC

AI is a transformative force for computational science that can enhance and accelerate scientific discovery. As these methodologies and applications mature and grow more complex, they increasingly require high performance computing (HPC) resources for developing and deploying models. NERSC is the mission HPC facility for the DOE Office of Science and provides advanced supercomputing resources for open science across many domains including materials sciences, biosciences, earth sciences, and physics. This presentation will describe our vision at NERSC for enabling and supporting cutting-edge scientific AI through advanced HPC system deployments, research engagements, benchmark challenges and datasets, and outreach. I will discuss our efforts to develop and support benchmarks in MLCommons for HPC and Science that are driving innovation in performance and scientific discovery, as well as efforts to provide a productive platform and ecosystem for user workloads and benchmarks. Finally, I will describe our various outreach activities such as surveys which inform us of the AI compute needs of our community and training events which seek to educate these communities in the methods and tools to effectively utilize HPC and AI for today's greatest scientific challenges.