T2K Open Supercomputer: Inter-university and Inter-disciplinary Collaboration on the New Generation Supercomputer

Abstract

Our new supercomputer system, which will begin its operation on July in the Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies, is based on the T2K Open Supercomputer Specifications designed by the collaboration with U. Tsukuba and U. Tokyo. The specifications are not only the result of our new concept and procurement principle, but also the conclusion of the discussion between computer scientists/engineers in the center and computational scientists of a wide spectrum of research field in our university. The collaboration of computer and computational scientists is becoming tight for the high-performance computing on the Open Supercomputer and has already shown its creativity with useful and novel software methods.