Project Overview
Outline of Research Area
The research area aims at developing system software technologies as well as related systems to be used for high performance computing in the post generations of the Japanese national supercomputer K. Several research and development has been conducted for system software enabling us to exploit maximum efficiency and reliability from supercomputers composed of general purpose many-core processors as well as accelerators including GPGPU form the second half of 2010’s to 2020’s.
In addition to the system software such as programming languages, compilers, runtime systems, operation systems, communication middleware, and file systems, application development support systems and ultra-large data processing systems are the targets for research and development. The 14 projects were adopted from 2010 to 2012, and the period of each project is five and half years. The total budget from 2010 to 2017 is about 60M USD.
The projects in post-peta CREST are expected to play a role bridging to post-petascale and exascale computing through system software.
Collaboration with SPPEXA project
Under the framework of the “Software for Exascale Computing (SPPEXA)” program which is implemented by DFG (Germany), JST (Japan) and ANR(France) agreed to support trilateral projects for high performance computing. Some of post-peta CREST projects have been awarded as a SPPEXA partner supported by JST.
List of Research Teams (in order of starting period)
- Development of an Eigen-Supercomputing Engine using a Post-Petascale Hierarchical Model (Research Director: Tetsuya Sakurai / Professor, University of Tsukuba) [2010～2015] ★
- System Software for Post Petascale Data Intensive Science (Research Director: Osamu Tatebe / Professor, University of Tsukuba) [2010～2015]
- ppOpen-HPC: Open Source Infrastructure for Development and Execution of Large-Scale Scientific Applications on Post-Peta-Scale Supercomputers with Automatic Tuning (AT) (Research Director: Kengo Nakajima / Professor, The University of Tokyo) [2010～2015]★
- Parallel System Software for Multi-core and Many-core (Research Director: Atsushi Hori / Researcher, RIKEN) [2010～2015]
- Highly Productive, High Performance Application Frameworks for Post Petascale Computing (Research Director: Naoya Maruyama / Research Team Leader, RIKEN) [2010～2015]★
- Development of a Numerical Library based on Hierarchical Domain Decomposition for Post Petascale Simulation (Research Director: Ryuji Shioya / Professor, Toyo University) [2011～2016]★
- An evolutionary approach to construction of a software development environment for massively-parallel heterogeneous systems (Research Director: Hiroyuki Takizawa / Associate Professor, Tohoku University) [2011～2016]★
- Software development for post petascale supercomputing — Modularity for Supercomputing (Research Director: Shigeru Chiba / Professor, The University of Tokyo) [2011～2016]★
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Development of Scalable Communication Library with Technologies for Memory Saving and Runtime Optimization (Research Director: Takeshi Nanri / Associate Professor, Kyushu University) [2011～2016]
- Advanced Computing and Optimization Infrastructure for Extremely Large-Scale Graphs on Post Peta-Scale Supercomputers (Research Director: Katsuki Fujisawa / Professor, Kyushu University) [2011～2016]
- Software Technology that Deals with Deeper Memory Hierarchy in Post-petascale Era (Research Director: Toshio Endo / Associate Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology) [2012～2017]
- Power Management Framework for Post-Petascale Supercomputers (Research Director: Masaaki Kondo / Associate Professor, The University of Tokyo) [2012～2017]
- Framework for Administration of Social Simulations on Massively Parallel Computers (Research Director: Itsuki Noda / Research Team Leader, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology) [2012～2017]
- Research and Development on Unified Environment of Accelerated Computing and Interconnection for Post-Petascale Era (Research Director: Taisuke Boku / Professor, University of Tsukuba) [2012～2017]★
Note: Project Marked with ★ supported by SPPEXA (extended to 2017)
Research Supervisor
Mitsuhisa Sato, Deputy Project Leader and Team Leader of Architecture Development Team / FLAGSHIP 2020 project, Deputy Director and Team Leader of Programming Environment Research Team, RIKEN Center for Computational Science