SC25 Invited Talks: Life Sciences (Tuesday 18 Nov 2025)

Enabling Earth-Independence for Human Missions to the Moon and Beyond, Alonso Vera, NASA Ames

From the outset, human space flight has depended on real-time control, guidance, decision support, and problem solving from Earth. Extended human presence beyond low-Earth orbit will require greater autonomy than is currently possible. This talk will discuss the new challenges for human space flight missions and approaches to increasing Earth independence, including advances in communication technologies, sensors, onboard intelligent systems, and crew interaction.

48:00
Nightingale AI: Building Medical Foundation Models at Nation-State Scale, Aldo Faisal, Imperial College London (UK), Universität Bayreuth (Germany)

Nightingale AI is Europe’s flagship effort to build sovereign, open medical foundation models using secure national health data. Unlike language-only models, medical AI must learn across multimodal data—imaging, biosignals, genomics, and clinical text—demanding innovations in architecture, scaling, and interpretability. Leveraging exascale compute and federated secure data environments, Nightingale AI pioneers an “AI factory” approach that fuses national-scale datasets with immediate healthcare impact. This talk will share an overview of our work today since launch in March 2025, and how we have partnered from day one with Isambard-AI at an unprecedented scale of compute for academic/medical research teams.

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SC25 • 16–21 NOV 2025 • ST. LOUIS, MO
The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis