Nova, the Science AI

Last updated: Oct 1, 2025

What is Nova?

Nova is Camber’s scientific AI assistant—your primary interface for interacting with CamberCloud platform. It transforms natural language into actionable outputs (text, images, and code) while seamlessly bridging conversational interfaces with high-performance computing resources.

Prerequisites: Active CamberCloud account with platform access. No coding experience required.

💡 Technical Specifications

Context Window: Up to 1 million tokens
Standard Context: 200,000 tokens
Max Output: 64,000 tokens
Model Foundation: Based on Claude Sonnet 4.0 architecture

Core Capabilities

Below are Nova’s five primary capabilities. Click on any expandable section to see examples and detailed information.

1. Job Execution Management

Nova provides intelligent control over computational jobs:

Natural language job control: Launch, monitor job status and progress, or cancel
Batch operations: Simultaneous multi-job execution
Smart resource optimization: Workload-based recommendations

📊 Real-time job monitoring dashboard

Nova job execution showing whey protein simulation status Job status panel showing ID, hardware allocation (XSMALL GPU node), and 5-stage simulation progress with estimated runtime. See job attributes reference for configuration details.

2. File System Integration

Seamless interaction with CamberCloud’s distributed file system (Stash):

File operations: Direct read/write and drag-and-drop uploads
Smart management: Create, organize, and delete
Automated processing: File format detection and data parsing

🔄 Drag-and-drop file uploader interface

Nova Stash file upload interface Stash browser showing project directories with drag-and-drop zone for direct file uploads

3. App Discovery and Execution

Intelligent application recommendation and deployment:

Smart suggestions: Problem-based app recommendations
Guided configuration: Parameter optimization and automatic setup
Seamless execution: Direct launch from conversation
Result analysis: Interpretation and next-step guidance

🔍 Intelligent app recommendations

Nova app discovery for whey protein simulation Nova suggesting GROMACS and LAMMPS applications for protein-water simulations with tagged categories

⚙️ Parameter configuration assistant

Nova app configuration panel App launch interface with Nova-assisted parameter settings.

4. Integrated Coding Agent

Full-featured execution environment with:

Intelligent code generation: Data analysis and visualization
Resource-aware execution: Run on selected compute nodes
Automated workflows: Pipelines with dependency management

📈 Interactive visualization artifacts

Nova coding agent visualization output Nova chat dialog showing clickable artifact icons generated by coding agent 1️⃣. When clicked, these open a coding agent artifacts preview dialog 2️⃣ displaying the generated visualizations. All artifacts are automatically saved to the “chats” folder in Stash

🖥️ Hardware-aware execution environment

Nova coding agent GPU detection Coding agent interface showing 1️⃣ compute node selection (XSMALL with GPU) and 2️⃣ GPU detection results displaying NVIDIA L4 specifications

5. Persistent Chat History and Artifacts

All interactions and generated content are automatically preserved:

Chat history: Complete conversation continuity
Artifact preservation in your Stash “chats” folder:
- Generated code scripts
- Data visualizations and plots
- Analysis results and reports
- Intermediate computational outputs

Getting Started

Access Nova through the CamberCloud platform interface. Simply type your scientific computing needs in natural language, and Nova will guide you through the optimal workflow using CamberCloud’s resources.

Quick Start Examples

Example prompts to try with Nova

“Run a molecular dynamics simulation of my protein structure”
“Help me visualize the results from my MESA stellar evolution job”
“I need to process 1000 images using GPU acceleration”
“Create a data analysis pipeline for my genomics dataset”