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+&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Building enterprise grade research and development (R&amp;amp;D) agents requires moving past the monolithic assistant model. In this blog post, we will discuss how to use a three-layer architecture: separating cognit…
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+&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;The reference architecture below shows how to architect, optimize, and govern high-compute autonomous agents in biotechnology, specifically Drug Discovery. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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+&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;The execution layer is responsible for the heavy scientific computations. The first architectural decision is determining where workloads should run:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;ul&gt;
+&lt;li aria-level="1" style="list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;
+&lt;p role="presentation" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Strategic, proprietary pipelines require dedicated GPU infrastructure within your security perimeter&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li aria-level="1" style="list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;
+&lt;p role="presentation" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Routine or standardized workloads can safely be delegated to managed cloud endpoints&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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+&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;In this architecture, protein folding is driven by &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://catalog.ngc.nvidia.com/orgs/nvidia/teams/nim/collections/bionemo-esmfold" rel="noopener" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="text-dec…
+&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;A critical hurdle in containerized GPU workloads is the cold-start penalty, the latency delay required to pull multi-gigabyte model weights from an image registry and stage them into GPU memory (VRAM).&lt;/span&gt;&l…
+&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;To ensure low latency responsiveness, we build the following as a recommendation into the reference architecture:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;ul&gt;
+&lt;li aria-level="1" style="list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;
+&lt;p role="presentation" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;strong style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Maintain warm pools:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt; Pin the GKE node pool to a minimum of one active node.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li aria-level="1" style="list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;
+&lt;p role="presentation" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;strong style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Preload weights:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt; Model weights are loaded directly into VRAM at pod initialization, ensuring containers are immediately ready for inf…
+&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li aria-level="1" style="list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;
+&lt;p role="presentation" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;strong style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Resilient scheduling:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt; GKE manages pod lifecycles and restarts failed instances without tearing down the underlying VM infrastructure.…
+&lt;/li&gt;
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+&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;This approach trades custom, manual CUDA kernel tuning for NVIDIA's pre-compiled, containerized runtimes, dramatically reducing infrastructure engineering overhead while ensuring deterministic throughput.&lt;/span&gt…
+&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;In biotech, chemical structures represent millions of dollars in proprietary IP. A docking request transmits SMILE strings or 3D coordinate matrices that must never leave company custody.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Containerized NIMs eliminate the friction between rapid prototyping and rigorous data isolation. During early exploration, researchers can query NVIDIA hosted endpoints. When transitioning to proprietary lead candida…
+&lt;h4&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;The cognitive layer: Multi-agent reasoning&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
+&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;With compute execution isolated, the cognitive layer manages agentic workflow sequencing. Built on &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/gemini-enterprise-agent-platform/build/runtime"&gt;&lt;span st…
+&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Based on this design, when an end-user submits a high-level task such as &lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong style="font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;“ Analyze Candidate 4b against Target X and produce a SAR repo…
+&lt;ul&gt;
+&lt;li role="presentation" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;strong style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;In-process native agent handoffs: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;The lead orchestrator delegates tasks to specialist sub-agents using Agent Runtime’s native SDK ra…
+&lt;li role="presentation" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;strong style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Passing bulky payloads by reference: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;LLMs degrade quickly when forced to ingest massive arrays of 3D spatial coordinates. In this ar…
+&lt;li role="presentation" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;strong style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Decoupling workflow logic from biochemical reasoning: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;General-purpose LLMs excel at task planning and synthesis, but are prone to ha…
+&lt;li role="presentation" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;strong style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Context-driven evaluation over rigid cutoffs: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Traditional computational screening enforces arbitrary numerical cutoffs (e.g., discar…
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;By passing disease context directly into the specialized reasoning models, drug candidates are evaluated against dynamic, target-specific profiles rather than static thresholds, preventing the premature culling of vi…
+&lt;h3&gt;&lt;strong style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Performance best practices for high-compute pipelines&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Optimizing an agentic system that interfaces with heavy GPU compute requires challenging common engineering instincts:&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;div align="left"&gt;
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+&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid #000000; padding: 16px;"&gt;
+&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Common Assumption&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/td&gt;
+&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid #000000; padding: 16px;"&gt;
+&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Architectural Reality&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/td&gt;
+&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid #000000; padding: 16px;"&gt;
+&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Recommended Best Practice&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/td&gt;
+&lt;/tr&gt;
+&lt;tr&gt;
+&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid #000000; padding: 16px;"&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;"Swap in a faster driver model to cut latency."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/td&gt;
+&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid #000000; padding: 16px;"&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;The primary orchestrator's token generation is rarely the bottleneck in multi-step R&amp;amp;D pipelines.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/td&gt;
+&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid #000000; padding: 16px;"&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Optimize I/O, not token speed: Focus on reducing payload sizes and intermediate network hops rather than compromising orchestrator reasoning depth.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/td&gt;
+&lt;/tr&gt;
+&lt;tr&gt;
+&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid #000000; padding: 16px;"&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;"Parallelize tool calls across workers."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/td&gt;
+&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid #000000; padding: 16px;"&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;External scientific services and containerized models often serialize requests internally on dedicated hardware.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/td&gt;
+&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid #000000; padding: 16px;"&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Respect execution topology: Align client-side concurrency with backend queue mechanics to prevent pipeline lockouts and connection timeouts.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/td&gt;
+&lt;/tr&gt;
+&lt;tr&gt;
+&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid #000000; padding: 16px;"&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;"Pass full simulation states between tools."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/td&gt;
+&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid #000000; padding: 16px;"&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Large JSON bodies cause schema validation failures, prompt truncation, and token bloat.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/td&gt;
+&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid #000000; padding: 16px;"&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Pass heavy payloads by reference: Store raw coordinates in object storage and pass lightweight URIs between agent boundaries.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/td&gt;
+&lt;/tr&gt;
+&lt;tr&gt;
+&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid #000000; padding: 16px;"&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;"Return outputs only when the pipeline finishes."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/td&gt;
+&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid #000000; padding: 16px;"&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Long multi-minute runs leave scientists blind to whether jobs are proceeding or stalled.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/td&gt;
+&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid #000000; padding: 16px;"&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Stream intermediate stage completions: Emit progress updates at each completed milestone (e.g., &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;folding complete&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline;…
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+&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;"Chain multiple granular micro-tools."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/td&gt;
+&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid #000000; padding: 16px;"&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Deep tool-chains increase the probability of hallucinated arguments and schema mismatches.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/td&gt;
+&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid #000000; padding: 16px;"&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Collapse compute pipelines: Wrap end-to-end simulation pipelines behind a single, clean tool interface that takes clear parameters and returns a consolidated object.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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+&lt;h4&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;The enterprise governance and asymmetric autonomy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
+&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Deploying high-compute agents in enterprise environments requires robust data sovereignty, audit trails, and process control. The &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/in…
+&lt;ul&gt;
+&lt;li aria-level="1" style="list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;
+&lt;p role="presentation" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/iam/docs/agent-identity-overview"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Agent Identity&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;: Ever…
+&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li aria-level="1" style="list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;
+&lt;p role="presentation" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/gemini-enterprise-agent-platform/govern/gateways/agent-gateway-overview"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Agent Gateway&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style…
+&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li aria-level="1" style="list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;
+&lt;p role="presentation" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/gemini-enterprise-agent-platform/govern/agent-registry"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Agent Registry&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align…
+&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li aria-level="1" style="list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;
+&lt;p role="presentation" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://cloud.google.com/security/products/model-armor?hl=en"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Model Armor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;: This func…
+&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;The payoff is clear. Identity, RBAC, auditing, residency, and data protection are native properties of the Gemini platform; this allows enterprise customers to focus on science rather than having to build a complianc…
+&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;In high-stakes research and development, full autonomy introduces unacceptable liability, while requiring approval for trivial steps can create frictions. The solution addressing this to use asymmetric gating in the …
+&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;strong style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Automate reversible operations:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt; For example, allow the agent to resolve chemical naming synonyms, pull structural PDBs, and run preliminary Lipinski scre…
+&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;strong style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Gate irreversible operations:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt; For instance, initiating multi-GPU docking run, advancing a lead compound to wet-lab synthesis, or archiving a therapeutic …
+&lt;h3 style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;strong style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;The pattern, and the path forward&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
+&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;High-compute autonomous agents succeed when the boundaries between cognitive planning, numerical computation, and system governance are clean in the following ways:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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+&lt;li aria-level="1" style="list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;
+&lt;p role="presentation" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Keep the orchestrator focused on decomposition and synthesis, leaving intensive biophysical simulation to specialized, containerized microservices and models.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li aria-level="1" style="list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;
+&lt;p role="presentation" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Eliminate context bloat by passing complex chemical data by reference through cloud storage.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li aria-level="1" style="list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;
+&lt;p role="presentation" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Anchor the workflow in enterprise governance, pairing cryptographic agent identity with asymmetric human oversight.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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+&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;As generative and structural biology models expand toward whole-cell modeling and complex dynamic simulations, this decoupled architecture ensures research systems scale efficiently while keeping proprietary IP secur…
+&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Reach out to your Google sales representative if you have any requirements to build a use case like this and we will be happy to talk and support you in your agent development journey on Google Cloud.&lt;/span&gt;&lt…
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Evaluation engineering is a critical foundation for building reliable AI systems. Setting up systematic, repeatable tests to measure your agent’s true behavior can be the difference between shipping a tool you can trust and one that silently bre…
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;I’ve run evaluation engineering initiatives for years at Google and d&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;eveloping the newly released&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/in…
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Here are four eval lessons we learned from building the new plugin that you can apply to your own builds.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;h3&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;1. Grade the execution steps instead of the summary&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;When we first evaluated agents, we set up an LLM-as-judge to inspect the agent’s final text reply and scored it against a checklist. However, we quickly realized it’s fundamentally flawed because the grader only sees what the agent wrote, not wh…
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+&lt;div class="block-paragraph_advanced"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;The grader penalized the agent for doing the right thing simply because it didn’t brag about it in the summary. If your rubric line says "did it run X?", a LLM judge is guessing unless you evaluate the…
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Takeaway&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt; Don't grade an agent on its closing pitch. Score the raw execution trajectory to verify what commands were ac…
+&lt;h3&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;2. Design evals for asynchronous operations&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;When you start reading tool-call trajectories, how you extract that telemetry matters just as much as what you're reading. Extracting agent telemetry into a flattened, sequential list of events obscures concurrent tool dispatch, which is one of …
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;In our evaluations, when an agent was asked to inspect an environment and look up documentation, the harness dispatched the skill-loading call and two documentation searches simultaneously within a single tool_calls payload. Because activating a…
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+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Takeaway&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Preserve turn structure in telemetry extractors so you can identify when client-side parallel dispatch issues…
+&lt;h3&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;3. Test live runs and "dry runs" side-by-side&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;You need to inspect real API calls to catch harness quirks, like parallel dispatch. But if you only test your agent in one environment condition, you're flying half-blind. From day one, you need to run two conditions side-by-side: a live run and…
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Live runs frequently hit an unexpected permission error on step two and abort before you ever reach the behavior you’re trying to test. That's why you need the plan-only condition, where you strip credentials and tell the agent to explain what i…
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