From The Tokyo Institute of Technology [東京工業大学] (JP)
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TSUBAME 4.0 HPE Cray XD665
Supporting a wide range of research and education as “More of Everyone’s Supercomputer”
Since TSUBAME1.0 started operation in April 2006, the TSUBAME series of supercomputers at Tokyo Tech has long supported research and development in industry, academia, and government, both in Japan and overseas, as “everyone’s supercomputer.” The latest system, TSUBAME4.0, is now in operation at Suzukakedai Campus and makes extensive use of its GPUs (graphics processing units), a feature of the TSUBAME series, and has achieved a 5.5 to 20-fold improvement in performance and ease of use while maintaining the continuity with the TSUBAME3.0 system.
In addition, for the first time in the TSUBAME series, the public was invited to submit rack designs. The design was inspired by the various possibilities and applications of the new supercomputer, and depicts four swallows freely drawing flowing lines as they spread their wings over an endless world.
TSUBAME4.0 supercomputer rack design
The use of the TSUBAME series is open not only to Tokyo Tech’s researchers, but also to extramural and corporate researchers through joint use programs such as the Joint Usage and Research Center for Interdisciplinary Large-scale Information Infrastructure (JHPCN) and the Innovative High Performance Computing Infrastructure (HPCI). The aim is to continue to make it “more of everyone’s supercomputer” and to have it be used on a daily basis.
To commemorate the start of operations, GSIC held a TSUBAME4.0 unveiling ceremony and tour on the Suzukakedai Campus on April 18, attended by about 100 guests.
The unveiling ceremony began with opening remarks by GSIC Director Toshiya Ito, followed by congratulatory speeches from the guests of honor. Following an overview of TSUBAME4.0 by Professor Toshio Endo of GSIC, two academic lectures were given by Professor Yutaka Akiyama of the Department of Computer Science, School of Computing Science and Engineering, on “Supercomputers Accelerate the Trend of Medium Molecular Drug Discovery,” and by Professor Rio Yokota of GSIC on “Large-scale Language Model Swallow by Tokyo Tech and AIST (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology).” The lecturers introduced the cutting-edge research that has been achieved through the TSUBAME series, and expressed their expectations for a significant acceleration of research using TSUBAME4.0.
As Tokyo Tech and Tokyo Medical and Dental University will merge and become Institute of Science Tokyo (Science Tokyo) in October this year, President Kazuya Masu said, “TSUBAME4.0 will play an important role not only in the existing research of Tokyo Tech, such as meteorology, physical science, materials science, computational chemistry, image processing, language processing, and artificial intelligence processing, but also in the development of academic fields such as AI, medical and dental sciences, and geo-environmental sciences.” TSUBAME4.0 will contribute as an indispensable computational resource infrastructure to the “development of convergence science,” which is the goal of Science Tokyo.
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The Tokyo Institute of Technology [東京工業大学] (JP) is the top national university for science and technology in Japan with a history spanning more than 130 years. Of the approximately 10,000 students at the Ookayama, Suzukakedai, and Tamachi Campuses, half are in their bachelor’s degree program while the other half are in master’s and doctoral degree programs. International students number 1,200. There are 1,200 faculty and 600 administrative and technical staff members.
In the 21st century, the role of science and technology universities has become increasingly important. Tokyo Tech continues to develop global leaders in the fields of science and technology, and contributes to the betterment of society through its research, focusing on solutions to global issues. The Institute’s long-term goal is to become the world’s leading science and technology university.
Schools and departments
TokyoTech comprises 6 schools, a number of departments and Institute for Liberal Arts.
School of Science (ja)
Department of Mathematics
Department of Physics
Department of Chemistry
Department of Earth and Planetary Science
School of Engineering (ja)
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Department of Systems and Control Engineering
Department of Electrical and Electric Engineering
Department of Information and Communication Engineering
Department of Industrial Engineering and Economics
School of Life Science and Technology (ja)
Department of Life Science and Technology
School of Computing (ja)
Department of Mathematical and Computing Science
Department of Computer Science
School of Environment and Society (ja)
Department of Architecture and Building Engineering
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Department of Transdisciplinary Science and Engineering
Department of Social and Human Sciences
Technology Innovation Management / Department of Innovation Science
Institute for Liberal Arts
Research laboratories
Chemical Resources Laboratory
Precision and Intelligence Laboratory
Materials and Structures Laboratory
Research Laboratory for Nuclear Reactors
Quantum Nano Electronics Research Centre
Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI)
Centers
Politics and social sciences
Centre for Research in Advanced Financial Technology (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Precision and Intelligence Laboratory (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Solutions Research Laboratory
Integrated Research Institute
Global Edge Institute (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Productive Leader Incubation Platform
Academy for Global Leadership
Centre for Research and Development of Educational Technology (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Research Centre for Educational Facilities
Creative Research Laboratory
Research Centre for the Science of Institutional Management of Technology
Collaboration Centre for Design and Manufacturing (CODAMA)
Centre for Agent-Based Social Systems Sciences (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Foreign Language Research and Teaching Centre
Centre for the Study of World Civilizations
Asia-Africa Biology Research Centre
Centre for CompView Research and Education
Career Advancement Professional School
Organization for Life Design and Engineering
Centre for Liberal Arts
Engineering and computing
Materials and Structure Laboratory (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Frontier Research Centre
Imaging Science and Engineering Laboratory
Global Scientific Information and Computing Centre
Structural Engineering Research Centre
Super-Mechano Systems R&D Centre
Centre for Photonic Nano-Device Integrated Engineering
Photovoltaics Research Center
Inter-departmental organization for Informatics
Chemistry and life sciences
Chemical Resources Laboratory
Research Centre for Carbon Recycling and Energy
Centre for Biological Resources and Informatics
International Research Centre of Macromolecular Science
Bio-Frontier Research Centre
Emerging Nanomaterial Research Centre
Centre for Molecular Science and Technology
The Osmotic Power Research Centre
Physics and astronomy
Volcanic Fluid Research Centre (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Research Laboratory for Nuclear Reactors (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Research Centre for Low Temperature Physics
Quantum Nanoelectronics Research Centre
Centre for Urban Earthquake Engineering
Research Centre for Nanometer-Scale Quantum Physics
Research Centre for the Evolving Earth and Planets
Centre for Research into Innovative Nuclear Energy Systems
Other facilities
Asia-Oceania Top University League on Engineering
Tokyo Tech Archive Initiative
Health Service Centres
TITECH Earth Database Centre
Tokyo Tech Front
International Student Centre
Inter-departmental Organization for Environment and Energy
ICE Cube Centre
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