Advanced Institute for Computational Science (AICS): Japanese national high-performance computing research institute and its 10-petaflops supercomputer “K”

Author

Yonezawa, Akinori ; Watanabe, Tadashi ; Yokokawa, Mitsuo ; Sato, Mitsuhisa ; Hirao, Kimihiko

Author_Institution

AICS/RIKEN, Kobe, Japan

fYear

2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

8

Abstract

Advanced Institute for Computational Science (AICS) was created in July 2010 at RIKEN under the supervision of Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT) in order to establish the national center of excellence (COE) for high-performance computing and to operate the 10 petaflops class supercomputer called "K", manufactured by Fujitsu, Ltd. This paper presents AICS in the context of the national high-performance computing infrastructure of Japan. Furthermore, some notable simulation research using the K computer will be briefly discussed.

Keywords

mainframes; parallel machines; 10-Petaflops supercomputer; Advanced Institute for Computational Science; Japanese national high-performance computing research institute; K computer; RIKEN; national center of excellence; Buildings; Computer architecture; Quantum computing; Scientific computing; Software; Supercomputers; AICS; K computer; center of excellence; supercomputer;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC), 2011 International Conference for

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4503-0771-0

Type

conf

Filename

6114495