Presenter

Taisuke Boku has been researching HPC system architecture, system software, and performance evaluation on various scientific applications. He is currently the director of the Center for Computational Sciences, University of Tsukuba, a co-designing center with both application researchers and HPC system researchers. He has played a central role in the development of original supercomputers in the center, including CP-PACS (ranked as number one in TOP500 in 1996), FIRST, PACS-CS, HA-PACS, Cygnus and Pegasus systems, the representative supercomputers in Japan. He was president of the HPCI (High Performance Computing
Infrastructure) Consortium in Japan (2020-2022) and is currently the vice president (2024-2026). Boku was a member of the system architecture working group of the Fugaku supercomputer development. He received the ACM Gordon Bell Prize in 2011. He is currently one of the program directors of the Feasibility Study of the next-generation supercomputer in Japan under MEXT.