講題： How the accelerated supercomputing makes the next era of computational sciences?

時間：2024/10/16(Wed.)15:30~17:10

地點：ED B27

Speaker:

Dr. Prof. Taisuke Boku/Director of Center for Computational Sciences University of Tsukuba, Japan

Dr. Tau Leng/Senior Vice President of Technology, Supermicro, USA

【講題大綱】

In this talk, we will present a brief history of supercomputer development in the world to reach to current accelerating devices for high-end computing and how current PC-cluster technology realizes it. We will also introduce several successful examples of computational science applications based on these technologies. Finally, we will introduce our new supercomputer with the advanced GPU system “Miyabi,” which will start its operation from January 2025.

【講者簡介】

Taisuke Boku got PhD degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Keio University, Japan. He has been researching HPC system architecture, system software, and performance evaluation on various scientific applications. He is currently the Director of Center for Computational Sciences, University of Tsukuba, a co-designing center where both application researchers and HPC system researchers are working together very tightly. He has been playing a central roles for development of original supercomputers in the center including CP-PACS(ranked as number one in TOP500 in 1996), FIRST, PACS-CS, HA-PACS, Cygnus and Pegasus systems, the representative supercomputers in Japan. He was the President of HPCI Consortium in Japan in 2020-2021, and now he is also the Vice President of it in 2024-2025. He played many of HPC and supercomputing academic activities in Japan including the Chair of SIGHPC group in Information Processing Society of Japan, Steering Committee Chair of HPC Asia conference series, several organizing committee works in SC and ISC such as Program Area Chairs, Workshop Chair, Poster Chair, and Invited Program Committee. He was a member of system architecture working group of Fugaku supercomputer development, and currently the Program Director of Post-Fugaku supercomputer Feasibility Study under MEXT. He received ACM Gordon Bell Prize in 2011.

Dr. Tau Leng is a seasoned leader with three decades of experience in the server and storage industry. He spearheads innovation and the development of cutting-edge technologies and product solutions. Tau is widely recognized for his technical expertise in high-performance computing, edge/cloud ICT architecture, and datacenter technologies. Before his tenure at Supermicro, he played a pivotal role at Dell Computer, where he established and nurtured the HPC group and business starting in 1999. Tau‘s contributions extend to his involvement on the Board of Directors at industry organizations, including the SSI (Server System Initiative) Forum, where he held various leadership roles from 2009 to 2018. Additionally, he was a member of the Board of Directors at SNIA (Storage Networking Industry Association) and the technical committee of High Performance Computing for Upstream in EAGE (European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers) from 2018 to 2020. Tau holds a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics from Fu Jen University in Taiwan, a Master's degree in Computer Science from Utah State University, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Houston.