About

The INTERconnected Science ECosysTem (INTERSECT) open federated hardware/software architecture is currently being developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) as part of a Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Initiative. The current team involves ORNL scientists and engineers, but the project is open for external contributions.

Team

Oak Ridge National Laboratory team:
- Christian Engelmann (Principal Investigator)
- Michael Brim
- Swen Boehm
- Olga Kuchar
- Jack Lange
- Thomas Naughton
- Patrick Widener
- Ben Mintz (INTERSECT LDRD Initiative co-lead)
- Rob Moore (INTERSECT LDRD Initiative co-lead)
- Former team members:
  - Elke Arenholz (former INTERSECT LDRD Initiative co-lead)
  - Scott Atchley
  - Suhas Somnath
  - Rohit Srivastava

Acknowledgements

Research sponsored by the Laboratory Directed Research and Development Program’s INTERSECT Initiative of Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Citation

How to cite this documentation:

Christian Engelmann, Michael Brim, Swen Boehm, Olga Kuchar, Jack Lange, Thomas Naughton, Patrick Widener, Ben Mintz, Rob Moore, Elke Arenholz, Scott Atchley, Suhas Somnath, and Rohit Srivastava. INTERSECT Architecture Documentation. URL: https://intersect-architecture.readthedocs.io

Contribute

This documentation is maintaned on GitHub. To contribute, please go to https://github.com/ORNL/intersect-architecture.

Software Development Kit

The INTERSECT Software Development Kit (SDK) implements this architecture and can be found at https://github.com/INTERSECT-SDK.

Publications

[P1]

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. Shaping the future of self-driving autonomous laboratories workshop. Technical Report ORNL/TM-2024/3714, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, January 2, 2024. doi:10.5281/zenodo.14430232.

[P2]

Michael J. Brim, Lance Drane, Marshall McDonnell, Christian Engelmann, and Addi Malviya Thakur. A microservices architecture toolkit for interconnected science ecosystems. In Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC) Workshops 2024: 19th Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science (WORKS) 2024, 2072–2079. Atlanta, GA, USA, November 18, 2024. IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, CA, USA. doi:10.1109/SCW63240.2024.00259.

[P3]

Christian Engelmann and Suhas Somnath. INTERSECT architecture specification: Use case design patterns (version 0.9). Technical Report ORNL/TM-2023/3133, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA, September 2023. doi:10.2172/2229218.

[P4]

Olga A. Kuchar, Swen Boehm, Thomas Naughton, Suhas Somnath, Ben Mintz, Jack Lange, Scott Atchley, Rohit Srivastava, and Patrick Widener. INTERSECT architecture specification: System-of-systems architecture (version 0.9). Technical Report ORNL/TM-2023/3168, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA, September 2023. doi:10.2172/2333813.

[P5]

Michael Brim and Christian Engelmann. INTERSECT architecture specification: Microservice architecture (version 0.9). Technical Report ORNL/TM-2023/3171, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA, September 2023. doi:10.2172/2333815.

[P6]

Christian Engelmann, Swen Boehm, Michael Brim, Jack Lange, Thomas Naughton, Patrick Widener, Ben Mintz, and Rohit Srivastava. INTERSECT: The open federated architecture for the laboratory of the future. Poster at the 52nd International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP) 2023, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, August 7-10, 2023.

[P7]

Christian Engelmann and Suhas Somnath. Science use case design patterns for autonomous experiments. In Proceedings of the 28th European Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs (EuroPLoP) 2023, 1–14. Kloster Irsee, Germany, July 5-9, 2023. ACM Press, New York, NY, USA. doi:10.1145/3628034.3628060.

[P8]

Christian Engelmann and Suhas Somnath. INTERSECT architecture specification: Use case design patterns (version 0.5). Technical Report ORNL/TM-2022/2681, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA, September 2022. doi:10.2172/1896984.

[P9]

Olga A. Kuchar, Swen Boehm, Thomas Naughton, Suhas Somnath, Ben Mintz, Jack Lange, Scott Atchley, Rohit Srivastava, and Patrick Widener. INTERSECT architecture specification: System-of-systems architecture (version 0.5). Technical Report ORNL/TM-2022/2717, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA, September 2022. doi:10.2172/1968700.

[P10]

Michael Brim and Christian Engelmann. INTERSECT architecture specification: Microservice architecture (version 0.5). Technical Report ORNL/TM-2022/2715, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA, September 2022. doi:10.2172/1902805.

[P11]

Christian Engelmann, Olga Kuchar, Swen Boehm, Michael J. Brim, Thomas Naughton, Suhas Somnath, Scott Atchley, Jack Lange, Ben Mintz, and Elke Arenholz. The INTERSECT open federated architecture for the laboratory of the future. In Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS): Accelerating Science and Engineering Discoveries Through Integrated Research Infrastructure for Experiment, Big Data, Modeling and Simulation. 18th Smoky Mountains Computational Sciences & Engineering Conference (SMC) 2022, volume 1690, 173–190. Springer, Cham, August 24-25, 2022. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-23606-8_11.