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The Advanced Photon Source (APS) at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) has completed a major upgrade that included replacement of the storage ring delivering greatly increased brightness, coherence, and high-energy x-ray capabilities, enabling transformative new scientific opportunities across the APS experimental program. These advances, together with new state-of-the-art high-bandwidth commercial detectors and enhanced beamline instrumentation, are changing how experiments are performed and are creating new requirements for networking, controls and data acquisition, automation, computing, workflows, data reduction and analysis tools, including AI approaches, and data management.
The APS has continued to make significant progress developing and deploying key elements of its scientific computing strategy. These advances include upgrades to networking infrastructure, deployment of modern experiment control software at beamline instruments, expanded capabilities and use of common data management and workflow tools and science portals, use of Argonne Leadership Computing Facility supercomputers for large-scale and on-demand data processing and analysis, development of high-speed and highly parallel data processing and analysis software, and the application of novel mathematical and AI methods to challenging data reduction and analysis problems. Looking forward, the APS must continue evolving these capabilities into reliable, operations-ready infrastructure that can support the full breadth of the upgraded facility. This includes strengthening automation, workflow orchestration, monitoring, portability across computing resources, and collaboration with other light sources, experimental facilities, large-scale computing facilities, and the APS user community.
*Work supported by U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, under Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357.
