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- 2022-06-22 CPS Seminar, YOSHIDA Satoru (Japan Meteorological Agency)"TBA" (July 19, 2022)
- 2022-06-08 Associate Prof. Michiko Fujii (University of Tokyo) and Associate Prof. Takayuki Saitoh (Kobe University), who are members of "Program for Promoting Researches on the Supercomputer Fugaku" (Toward a unified view of the universe: from large scale structures to planets), and collaborators have reproduced the motion of stars in the Orion Nebula with a new high-precision simulation code for star cluster formation.
- 2022-05-31 CPS Seminar, TOMITA Hirofumi (RIKEN Center for Computational Science)"Model development from the global cloud resolving model to the global large eddy simulation model " (June 24, 2022)
- 2022-05-12 Dr. Tomohisa Kawashima (Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, the University of Tokyo), who is a member of "Program for Promoting Researches on the Supercomputer Fugaku" (Toward a unified view of the universe: from large scale structures to planets), and collaborators have revealed first image of the black hole at the heart of our galaxy.
- 2022-05-06 Prof. Kanya Kusano (Nagoya University) and Associate Prof. Hideyuki Hotta (Chiba University), who are members of "Program for Promoting Researches on the Supercomputer "Fugaku" (Toward a unified view of the universe: from large scale structures to planets), received Awards for Science and Technology (Research Category) and the Young Scientists' Award of the 2022 Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, respectively.(Japanese page only)
- 2022-04-01 Associate Professor Hotta (Chiba University), who is a member of "Program for Promoting Researches on the Supercomputer Fugaku" (Toward a unified view of the universe: from large scale structures to planets), received the ASJ Young Astronomer Award, which is given annually to at most three young researchers, under 35 years of age, who have made significant accomplishments in astronomy.
- 2022-02-22 Dr. Tomohisa Kawashima (Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, the University of Tokyo), who is a member of "Program for Promoting Researches on the Supercomputer Fugaku" (Toward a unified view of the universe: from large scale structures to planets), and collaborators have revealed the detailed structure of Sagittarius A*, a giant black hole hiding in the center of the Milky Way Galaxy.(Japanese page only)
- 2022-01-27 Fumihiko Usui project assistant professor, of CPS (now Associate Senior Researcher, ISAS Program Office, JAXA) and collaborators published a paper in AGU Advances, in which they describe how they advanced the understanding the history of the formation of the Solar System through the analysis of ammonium-bearing minerals in C-type asteroids.
- 2021-11-25 "Interview with Gordon Bell Prize Finalists" is now available on YouTube "Fugaku Channel".(Japanese page only)
- 2021-11-16 Preferred Networks, Inc. (PFN) and Kobe University are happy to announce that, PFN's in-house supercomputer MN-3, powered by MN-Core processor jointly developed by the research group led by Professor Jun Makino (Director of CPS) and PFN, topped the latest Green500 list of the world's most energy-efficient supercomputers for the third time. The performance per watt has been further improved from the previous value.
- 2021-10-28 Drs. Koji Yoshikawa (CCS, University of Tsukuba), Satoshi Tanaka (YITP, Kyoto University) and Naoki Yoshida (KIPMU, University of Tokyo) have been selected as one of the finalists of Gordon Bell Prize of this year, for their simulation of cosmic neutrino on Supercomputer Fugaku, performed under "Program for Promoting Researches on the Supercomputer Fugaku" (Toward a unified view of the universe: from large scale structures to planets) (Japanese page only)
- 2021-09-14 Associate Professor Hideyuki Hotta (Graduate School of Science, Chiba University) and Professor Kanya Kusano (Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University) , who are members of "Program for Promoting Researches on the Supercomputer Fugaku" (Toward a unified view of the universe: from large scale structures to planets), have reproduced the solar differential rotation for the first time with the highest-resolution simulation on supercomputer "Fugaku".
- 2021-06-28 Preferred Networks, Inc. (PFN) and Kobe University are happy to announce that, PFN's in-house supercomputer MN-3, powered by MN-Core processor jointly developed by the research group led by Professor Jun Makino (Director of CPS) and PFN, topped the latest Green500 list of the world's most energy-efficient supercomputers. This is the second time that MN-3 ranked No.1, following the ranking of June 2020.
- 2021-06-22 A new book, "Principles of High-Performance Processor Design", authored by the director of CPS, Prof. Makino, will be published by Springer.
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