Genesis Mission: Building America’s AI-for-Science Backbone with Argonne’s Rick Stevens

About the Session

The Department of Energy's Genesis Mission marks a monumental shift in national scientific strategy—transitioning from traditional numerical simulation to an integrated, AI-first discovery engine. Designed to act as the "brain" of modern research, Genesis seeks to unite supercomputers, experimental facilities, commercial clouds, and scientific datasets across every major scientific discipline.

In this exclusive GCACC briefing, Rick Stevens—who leads the Genesis Mission's Transformational AI Models Consortium (ModCon)—will provide a comprehensive update on the latest developments across the initiative. Rick will detail the deployment of massive new AI compute infrastructure—including the 100,000-GPU Solstice and Equinox systems—and outline the architecture of the American Science Cloud (AmSC), the federated substrate connecting ESnet, DOE supercomputers, and commercial cloud resources.

Attendees will learn about the 270+ newly funded research proposals, the core agentic frameworks driving autonomous laboratories (such as OPAL), and how researchers across academia, national labs, and private industry can collaborate with this national AI-for-Science backbone.