{"id":570,"date":"2025-12-11T08:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T08:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christian-engelmann.info\/?page_id=570"},"modified":"2025-12-11T15:20:46","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T15:20:46","slug":"the-intersect-federated-architecture-for-the-laboratory-of-the-future","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.christian-engelmann.info\/?page_id=570","title":{"rendered":"The INTERSECT Federated Architecture for the Laboratory of the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<table style=\"border:5pt solid grey; padding:10pt;\">\n<tr style=\"border:0pt; padding:0pt;\">\n<td style=\"border:0pt; padding:0pt; text-align:left;\"><i><b>Summary:<\/b> The open Interconnected Science Ecosystem (INTERSECT) architecture connects scientific instruments and robot-controlled laboratories with computing and data resources at the edge, the Cloud or the high-performance computing center to enable autonomous experiments, self-driving laboratories, smart manufacturing, and artificial intelligence driven design, discovery and evaluation. Its a novel approach consists of science use case design patterns, a system of systems architecture, and a microservice architecture.<\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Connecting scientific instruments and robot-controlled laboratories with computing and data resources at the edge, the Cloud, or the high-performance computing (HPC) center enables autonomous experiments, self-driving laboratories, smart manufacturing, and artificial intelligence (AI) driven design, discovery and evaluation. The goal is to autonomously collect, transfer, store, process, curate, and archive scientific data and reduce human-in-the-loop needs for controlling, steering and designing experiments.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display:block; margin:auto;\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MQImdRf5wfc?si=rhKqLc9FcayGBcy5\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"1\"><\/iframe>Figure 1: The INTERSECT Interconnected Science Ecosystem (INTERSECT) Initiative at Oak Ridge National Laboratory enables autonomous experiments, self-driving laboratories, smart manufacturing, and AI-driven design, discovery and evaluation<\/p>\n<p>A federated instrument-to-edge-to-center hardware\/software ecosystem needs to provide (a) uniform interfaces that leverage community and custom software; (b) pluggability that permits adaptable solutions, reuse of existing solutions, and digital twins for testing and evaluation; and (c) an open architecture to enable adoption by science facilities world-wide. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ornl.gov\/intersect\">Interconnected Science Ecosystem (INTERSECT)<\/a> architecture (Figure 1) enables science breakthroughs using intelligent networked systems, instruments, and facilities for the research laboratory of the future. It roughly follows the U.S. Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF) with its different architectural viewpoints, such as (i) operational scenarios, (ii) composition, interconnectivity and context, (iii) services and their capabilities, (iv) policies, standards and guidance, and (v) capability. The major difference is that the INTERSECT open architecture splits these views over three different components: (1) science use case design patterns, (2) a system of systems (SoS) architecture, and (3) a microservice architecture.<\/p>\n<table style=\"border:0pt; padding:0pt;\">\n<tr style=\"border:0pt; padding:0pt;\">\n<td style=\"border:0pt; padding:0pt; text-align:center;\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/intersect\/architecture.png\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" height=\"70%\" width=\"70%\"><br \/>\nFigure 2: The components of the INTERSECT architecture in the context of the federated ecosystem for interconnected smart laboratories\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Autonomous experiments, self-driving laboratories, smart manufacturing, and AI-driven design, discovery and evaluation are described as science use case design patterns that identify and abstract the involved hardware\/software components and their interactions in terms of control, work and data flow. The basic template for a science use case design pattern is defined in a loop control problem paradigm. There are two classes in the catalog of science use case design patterns: strategic patterns and architectural patterns. Strategic patterns define high-level solution methods using experiment control architecture features at a very coarse granularity. Architectural patterns define more specific solution methods using hardware and software architecture features at a finer granularity. While the architectural patterns do inherit the features of certain parent strategic patterns, they also address additional problems that are not exposed at the high abstraction level of the strategic patterns. A specific solution may require pattern compositions.<\/p>\n<table style=\"border:0pt; padding:0pt;\">\n<tr style=\"border:0pt; padding:0pt;\">\n<td style=\"border:0pt; padding:0pt; text-align:center;\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/intersect\/patterns.png\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" height=\"80%\" width=\"80%\"><br \/>\nFigure 3: Classification of INTERSECT science use case design patterns and their orthogonal relationship to the Integrated Research Infrastructure (IRI) science workflow execution patterns\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>The SoS architecture clarifies used terms, architectural elements, the interactions between them, and compliance. It decomposes the federated hardware\/software ecosystem into smaller and less complex systems and components within these systems. It permits the development of individual systems and components with clearly defined interfaces, data formats and communication protocols. This not only separates concerns and functionality for reusability, but also promotes pluggability and extensibility with uniform protocols and system\/component life cycles. Instead of developing individual monolithic solutions for each science use case, the SoS architecture provides one solution that can be easily adapted to different use cases using different compositions of systems. It offers operational and managerial independence of systems and of components within systems, geographical distribution with a physically distributed and federated ecosystem, emergent behavior based on the interplay between systems and components, and evolutionary development through pluggability and extensibility. Similar to the DoDAF, the SoS architecture offers different architectural viewpoints: a logical view, an operational view a user view, a data view, a physical view, and a standards view.<\/p>\n<table style=\"border:0pt; padding:0pt;\">\n<tr style=\"border:0pt; padding:0pt;\">\n<td style=\"border:0pt; padding:0pt; text-align:center;\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/intersect\/logical.png\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" height=\"60%\" width=\"60%\"><br \/>\nFigure 4: In the INTERSECT SoS architecture, infrastructure systems contain multiple logical systems and logical systems span aross multiple infrastructure systems, providing services\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>The microservice architecture maps the science use case design patterns to the SoS architecture with loosely coupled microservices and uniform interfaces. It defines microservice interaction patterns and provides a classification of microservices that includes microservice capabilities for infrastructure and experiment services. The microservices are defined to facilitate composition within the federated SoS Architecture. Infrastructure microservices represent common service functionality and capabilities, such as data management, computing, messaging, and workflow orchestration that are likely to be generally useful across many science ecosystems without the need for customization. Experiment-specific microservices, on the other hand, represent services whose implementation may require detailed application knowledge, such as experiment planning or steering services that require knowledge of experiment-specific control parameters and their associated constraints. The microservice architecture also clarifies orchestration and deployment of microservices.<\/p>\n<table style=\"border:0pt; padding:0pt;\">\n<tr style=\"border:0pt; padding:0pt;\">\n<td style=\"border:0pt; padding:0pt; text-align:center;\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/intersect\/microservices.svg\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" height=\"70%\" width=\"70%\"><br \/>\nFigure 5: The classification of INTERSECT microservices with capabilities for infrastructure and experiment services.\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>The INTERSECT federated architecture is currently used by a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ornl.gov\/intersect\">number of research experiments and laboratories<\/a>. One example is <a href=\"https:\/\/intersect-architecture.readthedocs.io\/en\/latest\/examples\/aam\" target=\"intersect-architecture.readthedocs.io_en_latest_examples_aam\">autonomous additive manufacturing<\/a>, a 3D metal printing process with a thermomechanical simulation in a live feedback loop to control the residual stress in a printed part to address a grand challenge &#8212; building parts that are ready and safe to use immediately (i.e., &#8220;born qualified&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display:block; margin:auto;\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UGTADFR1O2U\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"1\"><\/iframe>Figure 6: The INTERSECT autonomous additive manufacturing experiment uses a thermomechanical simulation in a live feedback loop to control the residual stress in a printed part <\/p>\n<p><b>Latest INTERSECT architecture documentation: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/intersect-architecture.readthedocs.io\" target=\"intersect-architecture.readthedocs.io\">intersect-architecture.readthedocs.io<\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Research Projects<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"?page_id=86\">2021-&#8230;: An Open Federated Architecture for the Laboratory of the Future<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>In the News<\/h4>\n<p><b>2023-08-24:<\/b> ORNL News. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ornl.gov\/news\/intersect-launches-autonomous-labs-future\" target=\"www.ornl.gov_organization-news_intersect-demo-introduces-autonomous-labs\">INTERSECT launches autonomous &#8216;labs of the future&#8217;<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<h4>Peer-reviewed Conference Publications<\/h4>\n<ol>\n<li>Christian Engelmann and Suhas Somnath. <b>Science Use Case Design Patterns for Autonomous Experiments<\/b>. In <i>Proceedings of the <a href=\"http:\/\/europlop.net\" target=\"europlop.net\">28th European Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs (EuroPLoP) 2023<\/a><\/i>, pages 1-14, Kloster Irsee, Germany, July 5-9, 2023. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acm.org\" target=\"www.acm.org\">ACM Press, New York, NY, USA<\/a>. ISBN 979-8-4007-0040-8. DOI <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1145\/3628034.3628060\" target=\"publication\">10.1145\/3628034.3628060<\/a>. <a href=\"javascript:showAbstract('Connecting scientific instruments and robot-controlled laboratories with computing and data resources at the edge, the Cloud or the high-performance computing (HPC) center enables autonomous experiments, self-driving laboratories, smart manufacturing, and artificial intelligence (AI)-driven design, discovery and evaluation. The Self-driven Experiments for Science \/ Interconnected Science Ecosystem (INTERSECT) Open Architecture enables science break- throughs using intelligent networked systems, instruments and facilities with a federated hardware\/software architecture for the laboratory of the future. It relies on a novel approach, consisting of (1) science use case design patterns, (2) a system of systems architecture, and (3) a microservice architecture. This paper introduces the science use case design patterns of the INTERSECT Architecture. It describes the overall background, the involved terminology and concepts, and the pattern format and classification. It further offers an overview of the 12 defined patterns and 4 examples of patterns of 2 different pattern classes. It also provides insight into building solutions from these patterns. The target audience are computer, computational, instrument and domain science experts working in the field of autonomous experiments.');\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/txt.gif\" border=\"0\" style=\"border-style:none\" height=\"10pt\" alt=\"Abstract\"><\/a> <a href=\"publications\/engelmann23science.pdf\" target=\"publication\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/pdf.gif\" border=\"0\" style=\"border-style:none\" height=\"10pt\" alt=\"Publication\"><\/a> <a href=\"?page_id=55#engelmann23science\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/bib.gif\" border=\"0\" style=\"border-style:none\" height=\"10pt\" alt=\"BibTeX Citation\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Christian Engelmann, Olga Kuchar, Swen Boehm, Michael J. Brim, Thomas Naughton, Suhas Somnath, Scott Atchley, Jack Lange, Ben Mintz, and Elke Arenholz. <b>The INTERSECT Open Federated Architecture for the Laboratory of the Future<\/b>. In <i>Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS): Accelerating Science and Engineering Discoveries Through Integrated Research Infrastructure for Experiment, Big Data, Modeling and Simulation. <a href=\"http:\/\/smc.ornl.gov\" target=\"smc.ornl.gov\">18th Smoky Mountains Computational Sciences &#038; Engineering Conference (SMC) 2022<\/a><\/i>, pages 173-190, August 24-25, 2022. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.springer.com\" target=\"www.springer.com\">Springer, Cham<\/a>. ISBN 978-3-031-23605-1. DOI <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/978-3-031-23606-8_11\" target=\"publication\">10.1007\/978-3-031-23606-8_11<\/a>. Acceptance rate 32.4% (24\/74). <a href=\"javascript:showAbstract('A federated instrument-to-edge-to-center architecture is needed to autonomously collect, transfer, store, process, curate, and archive scientific data and reduce human-in-the-loop needs with (a) common interfaces to leverage community and custom software, (b) pluggability to permit adaptable solutions, reuse, and digital twins, and (c) an open standard to enable adoption by science facilities world-wide. The INTERSECT Open Architecture enables science breakthroughs using intelligent networked systems, instruments and facilities with autonomous experiments, &amp;#34;self-driving&amp;#34; laboratories, smart manufacturing and \\glsAI driven design, discovery and evaluation. It creates an open federated architecture for the laboratory of the future using a novel approach, consisting of (1) science use case design patterns, (2) a system of systems architecture, and (3) a microservice architecture.');\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/txt.gif\" border=\"0\" style=\"border-style:none\" height=\"10pt\" alt=\"Abstract\"><\/a> <a href=\"publications\/engelmann22intersect.pdf\" target=\"publication\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/pdf.gif\" border=\"0\" style=\"border-style:none\" height=\"10pt\" alt=\"Publication\"><\/a> <a href=\"publications\/engelmann22intersect.ppt.pdf\" target=\"publication\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/ppt.gif\" border=\"0\" style=\"border-style:none\" height=\"10pt\" alt=\"Presentation\"><\/a> <a href=\"?page_id=55#engelmann22intersect\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/bib.gif\" border=\"0\" style=\"border-style:none\" height=\"10pt\" alt=\"BibTeX Citation\"><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h4>Peer-reviewed Workshop Publications<\/h4>\n<ol>\n<li>Michael J. Brim, Lance Drane, Marshall McDonnell, Christian Engelmann, and Addi Malviya Thakur. <b>A Microservices Architecture Toolkit for Interconnected Science Ecosystems<\/b>. In <i>Proceedings of the <a href=\"http:\/\/sc24.supercomputing.org\" target=\"sc24.supercomputing.org\">37th International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC) Workshops 2024<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/works-workshop.org\/\" target=\"works-workshop.org\/\">19th Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale  Science (WORKS) 2024<\/a><\/i>, pages 2072-2079, Atlanta, GA, USA, November 18, 2024. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computer.org\" target=\"www.computer.org\">IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, CA, USA<\/a>. ISBN 979-8-3503-5554-3. DOI <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1109\/SCW63240.2024.00259\" target=\"publication\">10.1109\/SCW63240.2024.00259<\/a>. Acceptance rate 66.7% (10\/15). <a href=\"javascript:showAbstract('Microservices architecture is a promising approach for developing reusable scientific workflow capabilities for integrating diverse resources, such as experimental and observational instruments and advanced computational and data management systems, across many distributed organizations and facilities. In this paper, we describe how the INTERSECT Open Architecture leverages federated systems of microservices to construct interconnected science ecosystems, review how the INTERSECT software development kit eases microservice capability development, and demonstrate the use of such capabilities for deploying an example multi-facility INTERSECT ecosystem.');\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/txt.gif\" border=\"0\" style=\"border-style:none\" height=\"10pt\" alt=\"Abstract\"><\/a> <a href=\"publications\/brim24microservices.pdf\" target=\"publication\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/pdf.gif\" border=\"0\" style=\"border-style:none\" height=\"10pt\" alt=\"Publication\"><\/a> <a href=\"?page_id=55#brim24microservices\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/bib.gif\" border=\"0\" style=\"border-style:none\" height=\"10pt\" alt=\"BibTeX Citation\"><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h4>Peer-reviewed Conference Posters<\/h4>\n<ol>\n<li>Christian Engelmann, Swen Boehm, Michael Brim, Jack Lange, Thomas Naughton, Patrick Widener, Ben Mintz, and Rohit Srivastava. <b>INTERSECT: The Open Federated Architecture for the Laboratory of the Future<\/b>. Poster at the <a href=\"http:\/\/icpp23.sci.utah.edu\/\" target=\"icpp23.sci.utah.edu\/\">52nd International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP) 2023<\/a>, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, August 7-10, 2023. <a href=\"javascript:showAbstract('The open Self-driven Experiments for Science \/ Interconnected Science Ecosystem (INTERSECT) architecture connects scientific instruments and robot-controlled laboratories with computing and data resources at the edge, the Cloud or the high-performance computing center to enable autonomous experiments, self-driving laboratories, smart manufacturing, and artificial intelligence driven design, discovery and evaluation. Its a novel approach consists of science use case design patterns, a system of systems architecture, and a microservice architecture.');\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/txt.gif\" border=\"0\" style=\"border-style:none\" height=\"10pt\" alt=\"Abstract\"><\/a> <a href=\"publications\/engelmann23intersect.pdf\" target=\"publication\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/pdf.gif\" border=\"0\" style=\"border-style:none\" height=\"10pt\" alt=\"Publication\"><\/a> <a href=\"?page_id=55#engelmann23intersect\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/bib.gif\" border=\"0\" style=\"border-style:none\" height=\"10pt\" alt=\"BibTeX Citation\"><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h4>White Papers<\/h4>\n<ol>\n<li>Ryan Adamson and Christian Engelmann. <b>Cybersecurity and Privacy for Instrument-to-Edge-to-Center Scientific Computing Ecosystems<\/b>. <i>White paper accepted at the U.S. Department of Energy&#39;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orau.gov\/2021ascr-cybersecurity\" target=\"www.orau.gov\/2021ascr-cybersecurity\">ASCR Workshop on Cybersecurity and Privacy for Scientific  Computing Ecosystems<\/a><\/i>, November 3-5, 2021. <a href=\"javascript:showAbstract('The DOE&amp;#39;s Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Science report outlines the need for intelligent systems, instruments, and facilities to enable science breakthroughs with autonomous experiments, 'self-driving' laboratories, smart manufacturing, and AI-driven design, discovery and evaluation. The DOE's Computational Facilities Research Workshop report identifies intelligent systems\/facilities as a challenge with enabling automation and eliminating human-in-the-loop needs as a cross-cutting theme. Autonomous experiments, 'self-driving' laboratories and smart manufacturing employ machine-in-the-loop intelligence for decision-making. Human-in-the-loop needs are reduced by an autonomous online control that collects experiment data, analyzes it, and takes appropriate operational actions in real time to steer an ongoing or plan the next experiment. DOE laboratories are currently in the process of developing and deploying federated hardware\/software architectures for connecting instruments with edge and center computing resources to autonomously collect, transfer, store, process, curate, and archive scientific data. These new instrument-to-edge-to-center scientific ecosystems face several cybersecurity and privacy challenges.');\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/txt.gif\" border=\"0\" style=\"border-style:none\" height=\"10pt\" alt=\"Abstract\"><\/a> <a href=\"publications\/adamson21cybersecurity.pdf\" target=\"publication\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/pdf.gif\" border=\"0\" style=\"border-style:none\" height=\"10pt\" alt=\"Publication\"><\/a> <a href=\"?page_id=55#adamson21cybersecurity\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/bib.gif\" border=\"0\" style=\"border-style:none\" height=\"10pt\" alt=\"BibTeX Citation\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Hal Finkel, Pete Beckman, Christian Engelmann, Shantenu Jha, and Jack Lange. <b>Research Opportunities in Operating Systems for Scientific Edge Computing<\/b>. <i>White paper by the U.S. Department of Energy&#39;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orau.gov\/OSRoundtable2021\" target=\"www.orau.gov\/OSRoundtable2021\">ASCR Roundtable Discussions on Operating-Systems Research 2021<\/a><\/i>, January 25, 2021. <a href=\"javascript:showAbstract('As scientific experiments generate ever-increasing amounts of data, and grow in operational complexity, modern experimental science demands unprecedented computational capabilities at the edge - physically proximate to each experiment. While some requirements on these computational capabilities are shared with high-performance-computing (HPC) systems, scientific edge computing has a number of unique challenges. In the following, we survey current trends in system software and edge systems for scientific computing, associated research challenges and open questions, infrastructure requirements for operating-systems research, communities who should be involved in that research, and the anticipated benefits of success.');\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/txt.gif\" border=\"0\" style=\"border-style:none\" height=\"10pt\" alt=\"Abstract\"><\/a> <a href=\"publications\/finkel21research2.pdf\" target=\"publication\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/pdf.gif\" border=\"0\" style=\"border-style:none\" height=\"10pt\" alt=\"Publication\"><\/a> <a href=\"?page_id=55#finkel21research2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/bib.gif\" border=\"0\" style=\"border-style:none\" height=\"10pt\" alt=\"BibTeX Citation\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Hal Finkel, Pete Beckman, Ron Brightwell, Rudi Eigenmann, Christian Engelmann, Roberto Gioiosa, Kamil Iskra, Shantenu Jha, Jack Lange, Tapasya Patki, and Kevin Pedretti. <b>Research Opportunities in Operating Systems for High-Performance Scientific Computing<\/b>. <i>White paper by the U.S. Department of Energy&#39;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orau.gov\/OSRoundtable2021\" target=\"www.orau.gov\/OSRoundtable2021\">ASCR Roundtable Discussions on Operating-Systems Research 2021<\/a><\/i>, January 25, 2021. <a href=\"javascript:showAbstract('As high-performance-computing (HPC) systems continue to evolve, with increasingly diverse and heterogeneous hardware, increasingly-complex requirements for security and multi-tenancy, and increasingly-demanding requirements for resiliency and monitoring, research in operating systems must continue to seed innovation to meet future needs. In the following, we survey current trends in system software and HPC systems for scientific computing, associated research challenges and open questions, infrastructure requirements for operating-systems research, communities who should be involved in that research, and the anticipated benefits of success.');\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/txt.gif\" border=\"0\" style=\"border-style:none\" height=\"10pt\" alt=\"Abstract\"><\/a> <a href=\"publications\/finkel21research.pdf\" target=\"publication\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/pdf.gif\" border=\"0\" style=\"border-style:none\" height=\"10pt\" alt=\"Publication\"><\/a> <a href=\"?page_id=55#finkel21research\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/bib.gif\" border=\"0\" style=\"border-style:none\" height=\"10pt\" alt=\"BibTeX Citation\"><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h4>Technical Reports<\/h4>\n<ol>\n<li>Brian Etz, Oral, Sarp, Rafael Ferreira Da Silva, Ryan Adamson, Anees Alnajjar, Tom Beck, Ashley Barker, Michael Brim, Paul Bryant, Christian Engelmann, Anjus George, Samuel Herts, Gustav Jansen, Rajesh Kalyanam, Ahmad Maroof Karimi, Jack Lange, Kellen Leland, Ketan Maheshwari, Marshall McDonnell, Bronson Messer II, Ross Miller, Daniel S. Pelfrey, Suzanne Prentice, Bran Radovanovic, David Rogers, Daniel Rosendo, A.J. Ruckman, Mallikarjun (Arjun) Shankar, Amir Shehata, Tyler Skluzacek, Renan Santos Souza, Veronica Melesse Vergar, Feiyi Wang, Jordan Webb, Patrick Widener, and Christopher Zimmer. <b>OLCF&amp;#39;s Advanced Computing Ecosystem (ACE): FY25 Update for Ongoing Efforts<\/b>. Technical Report, ORNL\/TM-2025\/4050, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, November 30, 2025. DOI <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.2172\/3006499\" target=\"publication\">10.2172\/3006499<\/a>. <a href=\"publications\/etz25olcf.pdf\" target=\"publication\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/pdf.gif\" border=\"0\" style=\"border-style:none\" height=\"10pt\" alt=\"Publication\"><\/a> <a href=\"?page_id=55#etz25olcf\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/bib.gif\" border=\"0\" style=\"border-style:none\" height=\"10pt\" alt=\"BibTeX Citation\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Rafael Ferreira da Silva, Robert Moore, Benjamin Mintz, Rigoberto Advincula, Anees Alnajjar, Luke Baldwin, Craig Bridges, Ryan Coffee, Ewa Deelman, Christian Engelmann, Brian Etz, Millie Firestone, Ian Foster, Panchapakesan Ganesh, Leslie Hamilton, Dale Huber, Ilia Ivanov, Shantenu Jha, Ying Li, Yongtao Liu, Jay Lofstead, Anirban Mandal, Hector Martin, Theresa Mayer, Marshall McDonnell, Vijayakumar Murugesan, Sal Nimer, Nageswara Rao, Martin Seifrid, Mitra Taheri, Michela Taufer, and Konstantinos Vogiatzis. <b>Shaping the Future of Self-Driving Autonomous Laboratories Workshop<\/b>. Technical Report, ORNL\/TM-2024\/3714, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, January 2, 2024. DOI <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.5281\/zenodo.14430232\" target=\"publication\">10.5281\/zenodo.14430232<\/a>. <a href=\"javascript:showAbstract('The Shaping the Future of Self-Driving Autonomous Laboratories workshop, held in Denver on November 7-8, 2024, brought together leading experts from materials science and computing to address the growing need to revolutionize scientific research through AI-driven autonomous laboratories. The workshop identified critical challenges, including the integration of heterogeneous data, development of AI systems that understand fundamental physical principles, and comprehensive safety protocols. Key recommendations emerged around developing universal laboratory equipment interfaces, implementing automated metadata collection systems, and creating hybrid AI approaches that combine data-driven learning with scientific principles. The workshop emphasized maintaining human oversight while leveraging automation, transforming scientific education to prepare the next generation of researchers, and establishing a national consortium leveraging DOE facilities as anchors for broader collaboration with academia and industry. Participants stressed the urgency of addressing the growing disconnect between human decision-making timescales and modern instrumentation capabilities, highlighting the need for strategic automation while preserving essential human insight and oversight in the research process.');\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/txt.gif\" border=\"0\" style=\"border-style:none\" height=\"10pt\" alt=\"Abstract\"><\/a> <a href=\"publications\/dasilva24shaping.pdf\" target=\"publication\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/pdf.gif\" border=\"0\" style=\"border-style:none\" height=\"10pt\" alt=\"Publication\"><\/a> <a href=\"?page_id=55#dasilva24shaping\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/bib.gif\" border=\"0\" style=\"border-style:none\" height=\"10pt\" alt=\"BibTeX Citation\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Michael Brim and Christian Engelmann. <b>INTERSECT Architecture Specification: Microservice Architecture (Version 0.9)<\/b>. Technical Report, ORNL\/TM-2023\/3171, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA, September 30, 2023. DOI <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.2172\/2333815\" target=\"publication\">10.2172\/2333815<\/a>. <a href=\"javascript:showAbstract('Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)&amp;#39;s Self-driven Experiments for Science \/ Interconnected Science Ecosystem (INTERSECT) architecture project, titled &amp;#34;An Open Federated Architecture for the Laboratory of the Future&amp;#34;, creates an open federated hardware\/software architecture for the laboratory of the future using a novel system of systems (SoS) and microservice architecture approach, connecting scientific instruments, robot-controlled laboratories and edge\/center computing\/data resources to enable autonomous experiments, ``self-driving'' laboratories, smart manufacturing, and artificial intelligence (AI)-driven design, discovery and evaluation. The project describes science use cases as design patterns that identify and abstract the involved hardware\/software components and their interactions in terms of control, work and data flow. It creates a SoS architecture of the federated hardware\/software ecosystem that clarifies terms, architectural elements, the interactions between them and compliance. It further designs a federated microservice architecture, mapping science use case design patterns to the SoS architecture with loosely coupled microservices, standardized interfaces and multi programming language support. The primary deliverable of this project is an INTERSECT Open Architecture Specification, containing the science use case design pattern catalog, the federated SoS architecture specification and the federated microservice architecture specification. This document represents the microservice architecture of the INTERSECT Open Architecture Specification.');\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/txt.gif\" border=\"0\" style=\"border-style:none\" height=\"10pt\" alt=\"Abstract\"><\/a> <a href=\"publications\/brim23microservice.pdf\" target=\"publication\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/pdf.gif\" border=\"0\" style=\"border-style:none\" height=\"10pt\" alt=\"Publication\"><\/a> <a href=\"?page_id=55#brim23microservice\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/bib.gif\" border=\"0\" style=\"border-style:none\" height=\"10pt\" alt=\"BibTeX Citation\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Christian Engelmann and Suhas Somnath. <b>INTERSECT Architecture Specification: Use Case Design Patterns (Version 0.9)<\/b>. Technical Report, ORNL\/TM-2023\/3133, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA, September 30, 2023. DOI <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.2172\/2229218\" target=\"publication\">10.2172\/2229218<\/a>. <a href=\"javascript:showAbstract('Connecting scientific instruments and robot-controlled laboratories with computing and data resources at the edge, the Cloud or the high-performance computing (HPC) center enables autonomous experiments, self-driving laboratories, smart manufacturing, and artificial intelligence (AI)-driven design, discovery and evaluation. The Self-driven Experiments for Science \/ Interconnected Science Ecosystem (INTERSECT) Open Architecture enables science breakthroughs using intelligent networked systems, instruments and facilities with a federated hardware\/software architecture for the laboratory of the future. It relies on a novel approach, consisting of (1) science use case design patterns, (2) a system of systems architecture, and (3) a microservice architecture. This document introduces the science use case design patterns of the INTERSECT Architecture. It describes the overall background, the involved terminology and concepts, and the pattern format and classification. It further details the 12 defined patterns and provides insight into building solutions from these patterns. The document also describes the application of these patterns in the context of several INTERSECT autonomous laboratories. The target audience are computer, computational, instrument and domain science experts working in the field of autonomous experiments.');\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/txt.gif\" border=\"0\" style=\"border-style:none\" height=\"10pt\" alt=\"Abstract\"><\/a> <a href=\"publications\/engelmann23use.pdf\" target=\"publication\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/pdf.gif\" border=\"0\" style=\"border-style:none\" height=\"10pt\" alt=\"Publication\"><\/a> <a href=\"?page_id=55#engelmann23use\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/bib.gif\" border=\"0\" style=\"border-style:none\" height=\"10pt\" alt=\"BibTeX Citation\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Olga A. Kuchar, Swen Boehm, Thomas Naughton, Suhas Somnath, Ben Mintz, Jack Lange, Scott Atchley, Rohit Srivastava, and Patrick Widener. <b>INTERSECT Architecture Specification: System-of-systems Architecture (Version 0.9)<\/b>. Technical Report, ORNL\/TM-2023\/3168, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA, September 30, 2023. DOI <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.2172\/2333813\" target=\"publication\">10.2172\/2333813<\/a>. <a href=\"javascript:showAbstract('Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)&amp;#39;s Self-driven Experiments for Science \/ Interconnected Science Ecosystem (INTERSECT) architecture project, titled &amp;#34;An Open Federated Architecture for the Laboratory of the Future&amp;#34;, creates an open federated hardware\/software architecture for the laboratory of the future using a novel system of systems (SoS) and microservice architecture approach, connecting scientific instruments, robot-controlled laboratories and edge\/center computing\/data resources to enable autonomous experiments, ``self-driving'' laboratories, smart manufacturing, and artificial intelligence (AI)-driven design, discovery and evaluation.');\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/txt.gif\" border=\"0\" style=\"border-style:none\" height=\"10pt\" alt=\"Abstract\"><\/a> <a href=\"publications\/kuchar23system.pdf\" target=\"publication\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/pdf.gif\" border=\"0\" style=\"border-style:none\" height=\"10pt\" alt=\"Publication\"><\/a> <a href=\"?page_id=55#kuchar23system\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/bib.gif\" border=\"0\" style=\"border-style:none\" height=\"10pt\" alt=\"BibTeX Citation\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Michael Brim and Christian Engelmann. <b>INTERSECT Architecture Specification: Microservice Architecture (Version 0.5)<\/b>. Technical Report, ORNL\/TM-2022\/2715, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA, September 30, 2022. DOI <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.2172\/1902805\" target=\"publication\">10.2172\/1902805<\/a>. <a href=\"javascript:showAbstract('Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)&amp;#39;s Self-driven Experiments for Science \/ Interconnected Science Ecosystem (INTERSECT) architecture project, titled &amp;#34;An Open Federated Architecture for the Laboratory of the Future&amp;#34;, creates an open federated hardware\/software architecture for the laboratory of the future using a novel system of systems (SoS) and microservice architecture approach, connecting scientific instruments, robot-controlled laboratories and edge\/center computing\/data resources to enable autonomous experiments, ``self-driving'' laboratories, smart manufacturing, and artificial intelligence (AI)-driven design, discovery and evaluation. The project describes science use cases as design patterns that identify and abstract the involved hardware\/software components and their interactions in terms of control, work and data flow. It creates a SoS architecture of the federated hardware\/software ecosystem that clarifies terms, architectural elements, the interactions between them and compliance. It further designs a federated microservice architecture, mapping science use case design patterns to the SoS architecture with loosely coupled microservices, standardized interfaces and multi programming language support. The primary deliverable of this project is an INTERSECT Open Architecture Specification, containing the science use case design pattern catalog, the federated SoS architecture specification and the federated microservice architecture specification. This document represents the microservice architecture of the INTERSECT Open Architecture Specification.');\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/txt.gif\" border=\"0\" style=\"border-style:none\" height=\"10pt\" alt=\"Abstract\"><\/a> <a href=\"publications\/brim22microservice.pdf\" target=\"publication\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/pdf.gif\" border=\"0\" style=\"border-style:none\" height=\"10pt\" alt=\"Publication\"><\/a> <a href=\"?page_id=55#brim22microservice\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/bib.gif\" border=\"0\" style=\"border-style:none\" height=\"10pt\" alt=\"BibTeX Citation\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Christian Engelmann and Suhas Somnath. <b>INTERSECT Architecture Specification: Use Case Design Patterns (Version 0.5)<\/b>. Technical Report, ORNL\/TM-2022\/2681, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA, September 30, 2022. DOI <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.2172\/1896984\" target=\"publication\">10.2172\/1896984<\/a>. <a href=\"javascript:showAbstract('Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)&amp;#39;s Self-driven Experiments for Science \/ Interconnected Science Ecosystem (INTERSECT) architecture project, titled &amp;#34;An Open Federated Architecture for the Laboratory of the Future&amp;#34;, creates an open federated hardware\/software architecture for the laboratory of the future using a novel system of systems (SoS) and microservice architecture approach, connecting scientific instruments, robot-controlled laboratories and edge\/center computing\/data resources to enable autonomous experiments, ``self-driving'' laboratories, smart manufacturing, and artificial intelligence (AI)-driven design, discovery and evaluation. The project describes science use cases as design patterns that identify and abstract the involved hardware\/software components and their interactions in terms of control, work and data flow. It creates a SoS architecture of the federated hardware\/software ecosystem that clarifies terms, architectural elements, the interactions between them and compliance. It further designs a federated microservice architecture, mapping science use case design patterns to the SoS architecture with loosely coupled microservices, standardized interfaces and multi programming language support. The primary deliverable of this project is an INTERSECT Open Architecture Specification, containing the science use case design pattern catalog, the federated SoS architecture specification and the federated microservice architecture specification. This document represents the science use case design pattern catalog of the INTERSECT Open Architecture Specification.');\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/txt.gif\" border=\"0\" style=\"border-style:none\" height=\"10pt\" alt=\"Abstract\"><\/a> <a href=\"publications\/engelmann22use.pdf\" target=\"publication\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/pdf.gif\" border=\"0\" style=\"border-style:none\" height=\"10pt\" alt=\"Publication\"><\/a> <a href=\"?page_id=55#engelmann22use\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/bib.gif\" border=\"0\" style=\"border-style:none\" height=\"10pt\" alt=\"BibTeX Citation\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Olga A. Kuchar, Swen Boehm, Thomas Naughton, Suhas Somnath, Ben Mintz, Jack Lange, Scott Atchley, Rohit Srivastava, and Patrick Widener. <b>INTERSECT Architecture Specification: System-of-systems Architecture (Version 0.5)<\/b>. Technical Report, ORNL\/TM-2022\/2717, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA, September 30, 2022. DOI <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.2172\/1968700\" target=\"publication\">10.2172\/1968700<\/a>. <a href=\"javascript:showAbstract('Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)&amp;#39;s Self-driven Experiments for Science \/ Interconnected Science Ecosystem (INTERSECT) architecture project, titled &amp;#34;An Open Federated Architecture for the Laboratory of the Future&amp;#34;, creates an open federated hardware\/software architecture for the laboratory of the future using a novel system of systems (SoS) and microservice architecture approach, connecting scientific instruments, robot-controlled laboratories and edge\/center computing\/data resources to enable autonomous experiments, ``self-driving'' laboratories, smart manufacturing, and artificial intelligence (AI)-driven design, discovery and evaluation.');\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/txt.gif\" border=\"0\" style=\"border-style:none\" height=\"10pt\" alt=\"Abstract\"><\/a> <a href=\"publications\/kuchar22system.pdf\" target=\"publication\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/pdf.gif\" border=\"0\" style=\"border-style:none\" height=\"10pt\" alt=\"Publication\"><\/a> <a href=\"?page_id=55#kuchar22system\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/bib.gif\" border=\"0\" style=\"border-style:none\" height=\"10pt\" alt=\"BibTeX Citation\"><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h4>Talks and Lectures<\/h4>\n<ol>\n<li>Christian Engelmann. <b>The Federated Computing Environment for Autonomous Smart Laboratories<\/b>. Invited talk at the <a href=\"http:\/\/sos27.cscs.ch\" target=\"sos27.cscs.ch\">27th Workshop on Distributed Supercomputing (SOS) 2025<\/a>, Engelberg, Switzerland, March 20, 2025. <a href=\"javascript:showAbstract('The open Interconnected Science Ecosystem (INTERSECT) architecture connects scientific instruments and robot-controlled laboratories with computing and data resources at the edge, the Cloud or the high-performance computing center to enable autonomous experiments, self-driving laboratories, smart manufacturing, and artificial intelligence driven design, discovery and evaluation. Its a novel approach consists of science use case design patterns, a system of systems architecture, and a microservice architecture. Failure resilience in federated ecosystems for instrument science is a critical challenge. Failures disrupt experiments and make them potentially useless, wasting valuable instrument, network and computing allocations and creating setbacks for scientists. A diverse, yet resilient, federated high-performance computing ecosystem is needed with traditional and accelerated capacity and capability computing resources and proper network and data storage resources, in part with on-demand and real-time features. This talk presents an overview of the resilient INTERSECT architecture, illustrates a resilient autonomous additive manufacturing use case, and discusses the future needs for incorporating such computational workloads into high-performance computing systems and facilities.');\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/txt.gif\" border=\"0\" style=\"border-style:none\" height=\"10pt\" alt=\"Abstract\"><\/a> <a href=\"publications\/engelmann25federated.ppt.pdf\" target=\"publication\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/ppt.gif\" border=\"0\" style=\"border-style:none\" height=\"10pt\" alt=\"Presentation\"><\/a> <a href=\"?page_id=55#engelmann25federated\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/bib.gif\" border=\"0\" style=\"border-style:none\" height=\"10pt\" alt=\"BibTeX Citation\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Christian Engelmann. <b>The Interconnected Science Ecosystem (INTERSECT)<\/b>. Invited talk at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hartree.stfc.ac.uk\" target=\"www.hartree.stfc.ac.uk\">Hartree Centre, Science and Technology Facilities Council, Daresbury, UK<\/a>, October 4, 2023. <a href=\"javascript:showAbstract('The Interconnected Science Ecosystem (INTERSECT) Initiative at Oak Ridge National Laboratory is in the process of creating an open federated hardware\/software architecture for the laboratory of the future, connecting scientific instruments, robot-controlled laboratories, and edge\/center computing\/data resources to enable autonomous experiments, self-driving laboratories, smart manufacturing, and artificial intelligence driven design, discovery, and evaluation. Its novel approach describes science use cases as design patterns that identify and abstract the involved hardware\/software components and their interactions in terms of control, work, and data flow. It creates a system-of-systems architecture of the federated hardware\/software ecosystem that clarifies terms, architectural elements, the interactions between them and compliance. It further designs a federated microservice architecture, mapping science use case design patterns to the system-of-systems architecture with loosely coupled microservices and standardized interfaces. The INTERSECT Open Architecture Specification contains a use case design pattern catalog, a federated system-of-systems architecture specification, and a federated microservice architecture specification. It is currently being used to prototype and deploy autonomous experiments and self-driving laboratories at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the following science areas: (1) automation for electric grid interconnected-laboratory emulation\/simulation, (2) autonomous additive manufacturing, (3) autonomous continuous flow reactor synthesis, (4) autonomous electron microscopy, (5) autonomous robotic-controlled chemistry laboratory, and (6) integrating an ion trap quantum computing resource.');\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/txt.gif\" border=\"0\" style=\"border-style:none\" height=\"10pt\" alt=\"Abstract\"><\/a> <a href=\"publications\/engelmann23interconnected4.ppt.pdf\" target=\"publication\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/ppt.gif\" border=\"0\" style=\"border-style:none\" height=\"10pt\" alt=\"Presentation\"><\/a> <a href=\"?page_id=55#engelmann23interconnected4\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/bib.gif\" border=\"0\" style=\"border-style:none\" height=\"10pt\" alt=\"BibTeX Citation\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Christian Engelmann. <b>The Interconnected Science Ecosystem (INTERSECT) Architecture<\/b>. Invited talk at the <a href=\"http:\/\/smc2023.ornl.gov\" target=\"smc2023.ornl.gov\">20th Smoky Mountains Computational Sciences &#038; Engineering Conference (SMC)<\/a>, Knoxville, TN, USA, August 21-23, 2023. <a href=\"javascript:showAbstract('The Interconnected Science Ecosystem (INTERSECT) Initiative at Oak Ridge National Laboratory is in the process of creating an open federated hardware\/software architecture for the laboratory of the future, connecting scientific instruments, robot-controlled laboratories, and edge\/center computing\/data resources to enable autonomous experiments, self-driving laboratories, smart manufacturing, and artificial intelligence driven design, discovery, and evaluation. Its novel approach describes science use cases as design patterns that identify and abstract the involved hardware\/software components and their interactions in terms of control, work, and data flow. It creates a system-of-systems architecture of the federated hardware\/software ecosystem that clarifies terms, architectural elements, the interactions between them and compliance. It further designs a federated microservice architecture, mapping science use case design patterns to the system-of-systems architecture with loosely coupled microservices and standardized interfaces. The INTERSECT Open Architecture Specification contains a use case design pattern catalog, a federated system-of-systems architecture specification, and a federated microservice architecture specification. It is currently being used to prototype and deploy autonomous experiments and self-driving laboratories at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the following science areas: (1) automation for electric grid interconnected-laboratory emulation\/simulation, (2) autonomous additive manufacturing, (3) autonomous continuous flow reactor synthesis, (4) autonomous electron microscopy, (5) autonomous robotic-controlled chemistry laboratory, and (6) integrating an ion trap quantum computing resource.');\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/txt.gif\" border=\"0\" style=\"border-style:none\" height=\"10pt\" alt=\"Abstract\"><\/a> <a href=\"publications\/engelmann23interconnected3.ppt.pdf\" target=\"publication\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/ppt.gif\" border=\"0\" style=\"border-style:none\" height=\"10pt\" alt=\"Presentation\"><\/a> <a href=\"?page_id=55#engelmann23interconnected3\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/bib.gif\" border=\"0\" style=\"border-style:none\" height=\"10pt\" alt=\"BibTeX Citation\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Christian Engelmann. <b>The Interconnected Science Ecosystem (INTERSECT) Architecture<\/b>. Seminar at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrz-muenchen.de\" target=\"www.lrz-muenchen.de\">Leibniz Rechenzentrum (LRZ)<\/a>, Garching, Germany, July 10, 2023. <a href=\"javascript:showAbstract('The Interconnected Science Ecosystem (INTERSECT) Initiative at Oak Ridge National Laboratory is in the process of creating an open federated hardware\/software architecture for the laboratory of the future, connecting scientific instruments, robot-controlled laboratories, and edge\/center computing\/data resources to enable autonomous experiments, self-driving laboratories, smart manufacturing, and artificial intelligence driven design, discovery, and evaluation. Its novel approach describes science use cases as design patterns that identify and abstract the involved hardware\/software components and their interactions in terms of control, work, and data flow. It creates a system-of-systems architecture of the federated hardware\/software ecosystem that clarifies terms, architectural elements, the interactions between them and compliance. It further designs a federated microservice architecture, mapping science use case design patterns to the system-of-systems architecture with loosely coupled microservices and standardized interfaces. The INTERSECT Open Architecture Specification contains a use case design pattern catalog, a federated system-of-systems architecture specification, and a federated microservice architecture specification. It is currently being used to prototype and deploy autonomous experiments and self-driving laboratories at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the following science areas: (1) automation for electric grid interconnected-laboratory emulation\/simulation, (2) autonomous additive manufacturing, (3) autonomous continuous flow reactor synthesis, (4) autonomous electron microscopy, (5) autonomous robotic-controlled chemistry laboratory, and (6) integrating an ion trap quantum computing resource.');\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/txt.gif\" border=\"0\" style=\"border-style:none\" height=\"10pt\" alt=\"Abstract\"><\/a> <a href=\"publications\/engelmann23interconnected2.ppt.pdf\" target=\"publication\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/ppt.gif\" border=\"0\" style=\"border-style:none\" height=\"10pt\" alt=\"Presentation\"><\/a> <a href=\"?page_id=55#engelmann23interconnected2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/bib.gif\" border=\"0\" style=\"border-style:none\" height=\"10pt\" alt=\"BibTeX Citation\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Christian Engelmann. <b>The Interconnected Science Ecosystem (INTERSECT) Architecture<\/b>. Invited talk at the <a href=\"http:\/\/esailworkshop.ornl.gov\" target=\"esailworkshop.ornl.gov\">1st Ecosystems for Smart Autonomous Interconnected  Labs (E-SAIL) Workshop<\/a>, held in conjunction with the  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isc-hpc.com\" target=\"www.isc-hpc.com\">38th ISC High  Performance (ISC) 2023<\/a>, Hamburg, Germany, May 25, 2023. <a href=\"javascript:showAbstract('The open Interconnected Science Ecosystem (INTERSECT) architecture connects scientific instruments and robot-controlled laboratories with computing and data resources at the edge, the Cloud or the high-performance computing center to enable autonomous experiments, self-driving laboratories, smart manufacturing, and artificial intelligence driven design, discovery and evaluation. Its a novel approach consists of science use case design patterns, a system of systems architecture, and a microservice architecture.');\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/txt.gif\" border=\"0\" style=\"border-style:none\" height=\"10pt\" alt=\"Abstract\"><\/a> <a href=\"publications\/engelmann23interconnected.ppt.pdf\" target=\"publication\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/ppt.gif\" border=\"0\" style=\"border-style:none\" height=\"10pt\" alt=\"Presentation\"><\/a> <a href=\"?page_id=55#engelmann23interconnected\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/bib.gif\" border=\"0\" style=\"border-style:none\" height=\"10pt\" alt=\"BibTeX Citation\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Ben Mintz, Christian Engelmann, Elke Arenholz, and Ryan Coffee. <b>Enabling Self-Driven Experiments for Science through an Interconnected Science Ecosystem (INTERSECT)<\/b>. Panel at the <a href=\"http:\/\/smc2021.ornl.gov\" target=\"smc2021.ornl.gov\">17th Smoky  Mountains Computational Sciences &#038; Engineering Conference  (SMC)<\/a>, October 20, 2021. <a href=\"?page_id=55#mintz21enabling\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/bib.gif\" border=\"0\" style=\"border-style:none\" height=\"10pt\" alt=\"BibTeX Citation\"><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em><small>Symbols: <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-style: none;\" src=\"images\/txt.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Abstract\" height=\"10pt\"> Abstract, <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-style: none;\" src=\"images\/pdf.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Publication\" height=\"10pt\"> Publication, <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-style: none;\" src=\"images\/ppt.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Presentation\" height=\"10pt\"> Presentation, <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-style: none;\" src=\"images\/bib.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"BibTeX Citation\" height=\"10pt\"> BibTeX Citation<\/small><\/em><\/p>\n<p><script language=\"JavaScript\">\nfunction showAbstract (text) {\n  var width  = 400;\n  var height = 400;\n  var left   = (screen.width  - width ) \/ 2;\n  var top    = (screen.height - height) \/ 2;\n  var win    = window.open('',\n                           'Abstract',\n                           'width='  + width  + ', ' + \n                           'height=' + height + ', ' +\n                           'left='   + left   + ', ' +\n                           'top='    + top    + ', ' +\n                           'toolbar=no, '     +\n                           'location=no, '    +\n                           'directories=no, ' +\n                           'status=no, '      +\n                           'menubar=no, '     +\n                           'copyhistory=no, ' +\n                           'scrollbars=yes, ' +\n                           'resizable=yes')\n  win.document.write(text);\n  win.document.close();\n}\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: The open Interconnected Science Ecosystem (INTERSECT) architecture connects scientific instruments and robot-controlled laboratories with computing and data resources at the edge, the Cloud or the high-performance computing center to enable autonomous experiments, self-driving laboratories, smart manufacturing, and artificial intelligence driven design, discovery and evaluation. 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