ASCEND: Personal AI Agents for Autonomous Scientific Computing Across HPC Clusters and GPU Workstations

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arXiv:2609.32868v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Traditional scientific computing requires researchers to translate intent into environment configuration, resource requests, and executable jobs, then diagnose failures from scheduler and application logs. We present ASCEND (Autonomous Scientific Computing Engine and Novel Discovery), an AI-powered agent system, operated through a command-line or a local web chat interface, that runs the agent on the researcher's own laptop, reaching Slur