Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica

Rapid growth in the use cases and demands for extreme computing and huge data processing is leading to convergence of the two infrastructures. Tokyo Tech.’s TSUBAME3.0, a 2016 successor to the highly successful TSUBAME2/2.5, will aim to deploy a series of innovative technologies, including ultra-efficient liquid cooling and power control, petabytes of non-volatile memory, as well as low cost Petabit-class interconnect. To address the challenges of such technology adoption, proper system architecture, software stack, and algorithm must be desgined and developed; these are being addressed by several of our ongoing research projects as well as prototypes, such as the TSUBAME-KFC prototype which became #1 in the world in power efficiency on the Green500 twice in a row, the Billion-way Resiliency project that is investigating effective methods for future resilient supercomputers, as well as the Extreme Big Data (EBD) project which is looking at co-design development of convergent system stack given future data and computing workloads. These will lead to further innovations in the 2020s era TSUBAME4.0, which will have even more aggressive technologies to make datacenters of today be completely obsolete.

Satoshi Matsuoka has been a Full Professor at the Global Scientific Information and Computing Center (GSIC), a Japanese national supercomputing center hosted by the Tokyo Institute of Technology, since 2001. He received his Ph. D. from the University of Tokyo in 1993. He is the leader of the TSUBAME series of supercomputers, including TSUBAME2.0 which was the first supercomputer in Japan to exceed Petaflop performance and became the 4th fastest in the world on the Top500 in Nov.  2010, as well as the recent TSUBAME-KFC becoming #1 in the world for power efficiency for both the Green 500 and Green Graph 500 lists in Nov. 2013. He is also currently leading several major supercomputing research projects, such as the MEXT Green Supercomputing, JSPS Billion-Scale Supercomputer Resilience, as well as the JST-CREST Extreme Big Data. He has written over 500 articles according to Google Scholar, and chaired numerous ACM/IEEE conferences, most recently the overall Technical Program Chair at the ACM/IEEE Supercomputing Conference (SC13) in 2013. He is a fellow of the ACM and European ISC, and has won many awards, including the JSPS Prize from the Japan Society for Promotion of Science in 2006, awarded by his Highness Prince Akishino, the ACM Gordon Bell Prize in 2011, the Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in 2012, and recently the 2014 IEEE-CS Sidney Fernbach Memorial Award, the highest prestige in the field of HPC.