<ul data-eligibleForWebStory="true">Research introduces the Distributed Cross-Channel Hierarchical Aggregation (D-CHAG) approach for vision-based scientific foundation models.D-CHAG is designed to handle datasets with a large number of channels across image modalities and improve computational efficiency.The approach was tested on hyperspectral imaging and weather forecasting tasks, showing significant memory reduction and increased throughput.The study integrated D-CHAG with tensor parallelism and model sharding, achieving promising results on the Frontier Supercomputer.