The Eleventh

"Science in Japan" Forum

Supercomputer and its Applications

Sponsored by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Cosponsored by National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation,
U.S. Department of Energy, and American Association for the Advancement of Science
Organized by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Washington Office

at the Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington DC on June 16, 2006


Agenda 


8:30 am-9:00 am

Registration

9:00 am-9:10 am

Opening Remarks by Dr. Akira Masaike, JSPS Washington Office

Morning Session

 

9:10 am-9:30 am

Moderator's Speech

Thomas Zacharia

Associate Laboratory Director, Computing and Computational Directorate, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

9:30 am-10:20 am

Supercomputing in Japan

Yoshio Oyanagi

Dean, Faculty of Informatics, Kogakuin University

(Abstract& Biographical Notes)  

10:20 am-10:40 am

Coffee Break

10:40 am-11:30 am

Outline of Japanese National Project on Development and Application of Advanced High-performance Supercomputer

Kenichi Miura

Professor, Information Systems Architecture Research Division National Institute of Informatics

(Abstract & Biographical Notes)  

11:30 am-12:20 pm

Overview of Petaflop/s Projects in the U.S.

Horst D. Simon

Associate Laboratory Director, Computing Sciences, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

(Abstract& Biographical Notes)  

 

 

Afternoon Session

 

1:50 pm-2:10 pm

Moderator's Speech

Stephen Meacham  

Program Director, High-Performance Computing, Office of Cyberinfrastructure, National Science Foundation

2:10 pm-3:00 pm

Architectural View and Low Power Technology for PFLOPS Computing

Taisuke Boku

Professor, Department of Computer Science, Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering, University of Tsukuba

(Abstract& Biographical Notes)  

3:00 pm-3:50 pm

Building a Supercomputing Pipeline from Genome Sequence to Protein Structure and Drug Design

Yutaka Akiyama

Director, Computational Biology Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology

(Abstract& Biographical Notes)  

3:50 pm-4:10 pm

Coffee Break

4:10 pm-5:00 pm

Loosely Coupled Approach on Nano-Science Simulations

Mutsumi Aoyagi

Professor, Computing and Communication Center, Kyushu University

(Abstract& Biographical Notes)  

 

 

 

 


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