External Review (2014-2019)

External Review on Center for Computational Sciences, University of Tsukuba (2014-2019)

Date February 19th (Wed), 20th (Thu), 21st (Fri), 2020
Place Center for Computational Sciences, University of Tsukuba

Report of the Review Committee & CCS Reports for Review

 

 

 

[All pages : PDF 19MB]

 

External Review Committee

Chair Prof. William Gropp (National Center for Supercomputing Applications, USA)
Vice Chair Prof. Masaki Sato (Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, Japan)
 
  • Prof. Chris Sachrajda (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, UK)
  • Prof. Lars Hemquist (Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Harvard University, USA)
  • Prof. Pieter Maris (Iowa State University, USA)
  • Prof. Angel Rubio (Theory Department / Center for Computational Quantum Physics, Max Planck Institute for Structure and Dynamics Matter / Flatiron Institute, Germany / USA)
  • Prof. John Zhang (NYU-ECNU Center for Computational Chemistry, New York University Shanghai, China)
  • Prof. Shiguang Miao (Institute of Urban Meteorology, China Meteorological Administration, China)
  • Prof. Hiroshi Nakashima (Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies, Kyoto University, Japan)
  • Prof. Jeffrey Xu Yu (Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
  • Prof. Bruce H. Thomas (School of Information Technology and Mathematical Sciences, the University of South Australia, Australia)

Schedule

DAY-1  (Feb 19th)

Overview of CCS (Workshop Room)

Chair: K. Yabana
9:30-10:30 Opening & Introduction to CCS (T. Boku, Director of CCS)
10:30-11:00 Activities and Results 2014-2018 (M.Umemura, ex-Director of CCS)
11:00-11:20 Coffee Break
Chair: H. Kitagawa
11:20-11:40 Supercomputer-I: Oakforest-PACS System (O. Tatebe)
11:40-12:00 Supercomputer-II: Cygnus System (T. Boku, Director of CCS)
12:00-12:20 ILDG/JLDG activities (T. Yoshie)
12:20-12:35 Multidisciplinary Cooperative Research Program (T. Nakatsukasa)
12:35-12:45 Visiting Cygnus Supercomputer
12:45-14:00 Lunch

Activities & Collaborations of Divisions (Workshop Room)

Chair: D. Takahashi
14:00-14:30 REPORT: Division of Particle Physics(Y. Kuramashi)
14:30-15:00 REPORT: Division of Astrophysics (M. Umemura)
15:00-15:30 REPORT: Division of Nuclear Physics (T. Nakatsukasa)
15:30-15:50 Coffee Break
Chair: T. Amagasa
15:50-16:20 REPORT: Division of Quantum Condensed Matter Physics (K. Yabana)
16:20-16:50 REPORT: Division of Life Science (Y. Shigeta & Y. Inagaki)
16:50-17:20 REPORT: Division of Global Environmental Science (H. Kusaka)
17:20 Wrapping up DAY-1
17:30-18:30 Reception (Meeting Room A)

DAY-2 (Feb 20th)

Activities of Divisions (cont’d) (Workshop Room)

Chair: M. Umemura
9:30-10:00 REPORT: Division of High Performance Computing Systems (T. Boku)
10:00-10:30 REPORT: Division of Computational Informatics: Database Group (H. Kitagawa)
10:30-11:00 REPORT: Division of Computational Informatics: Computational Media Group (Y. Kameda)
11:00-11:20 Coffee Break
Chair: Y. Shigeta
11:20-11:35 Project Office for Exascale Computational Sciences (K. Yabana)
11:35-11:50 Project Office for Exascale Computing System Development (T. Boku)
11:50-12:05 Department of Computational Medical Science (M. Umemura)
12:05-12:20 Project Office for AI & Big Data (T. Amagasa)
12:20-12:35 Project Office for HPCI (Y. Kuramashi)
12:35-14:00 Lunch

Breakout Sessions

14:00-18:30 Division of Particle Physics
Reviewer: Chris Sachrajda		 Room:
SB-1112
Division of Astrophsyics
Reviewer: Lars Hemquist		 Room:
CCS-Workshop
Division of Nuclear Physics
Reviewer: Pieter Maris		 Room: 
SB-911-1
Division of Quantum Condensed Matter Physics
Reviewer: Angel Rubio		 Room: 
CCS-C
Division of Life Science
Reviewer: John Zhang		 Room: 
SB-1001
Division of Global Environmental Science
Reviewer: Masaki Sato, Shiguang Miao		 Room: 
CCS-B
Division of High Performance Computing Systems
Reviewer: Hiroshi Nakashima, William Gropp		 Room: 
CCS-A
Division of Computational Informatics: Database Group
Reviewer: Jeffrey Xu Yu		 Room:
SB-911-2
Division of Computational Informatics: Computational Media Group
Reviewer: Bruce H. Thomas		 Room:
SB-1111
19:00-21:00 Committee Meeting with Dinner

DAY-3 (Feb 21st)

Activities of Divisions (cont’d) (Workshop Room)

Chair: T. Nakatsukasa
9:30-9:45 Liaison Office for Multidisciplinary Computational Sciences (D. Takahashi)
9:30-10:00 Promotion Office for Computational Sciences (D. Takahashi)
10:00-10:15 The Bureau of Public Relations and Strategy (K. Sekiya)
10:15-10:35 Coffee Break

Future Plans (Workshop Room)

10:35-11:05 Future Plan of CCS (T. Boku)
11:05-12:40 Private Lunch Meeting by Committee
12:40-13:40 Open Discussion