The C&C Center Three Major Missions: In This Presentation: Supercomputing Services; Network Services; Educational Computing Services. In This Presentation: An overview of supercomputing and network services; Summaries of R&D activities of the C&C center staff. The Computing and Communications Center of Kyushu University provides computing and communication infrastructures for academic institutions in Japan, and gives powerful supports for education and research.  We have three major missions: supercomputing services, network services, and educational computing services.  In this presentation, we give an overview of supercomputing and network services, and the summaries of research and development activities carried out by the C&C center staff.

Supercomputing Services To serve for academic researchers inside and outside the university A wide variety of research fields: fluid dynamics, geophysics, structural mechanics, nuclear physics, molecular science, and materials engineering, etc. The C&C Center of Kyushu University is one of the seven national supercomputer centers of Japan, which offer supercomputing services to researchers in universities and colleges all over Japan.  Our services contribute to various academic research fields such as fluid dynamics, geophysics, structural mechanics, nuclear physics, molecular science, and materials engineering.

Computing Resource Supercomputer High-Performance Computing Servers Fujitsu VPP5000/64 Vector-parallel, 9.6GFLOPS × 64 nodes High-Performance Computing Servers IBM eServer p5 Model 595 Scalar-parallel, 7 nodes (POWER5 1.9GHz) 64CPU, 512GB × 1 64CPU, 256GB × 5 32CPU, 128GB × 1 Currently, we have two large computer systems. FUJITSU VPP5000/64 is a vector-parallel supercomputer consisting of 64 vector processors.  The peak performance of each processor is 9.6 giga-flops.  Our high-performance computing servers are seven IBM eServer p5 model five-ninety-five's having four hundred sixteen POWER5 processors, whose clock cycle is one point nine giga-hertz. 

Showcase (1) Simulation of Seismic Waves Propagating inside the Earth Now, let’s look at the showcase of “future” being curved by our users. The first example is the simulation of seismic waves propagating inside the Earth. This sample image shows us how supercomputing makes us "see" the inside of our planet, without dissecting it. by courtesy of Prof. Takenaka,Kyushu Univ.

Showcase (2) Direct Numerical Simulation of Turbulent Couette Flow with a Large Computational Domain The next example is a direct numerical simulation of turbulent Couett flow with a large computational domain. This sample exhibits we can now achieve a world-largest-class direct numerical simulation by modeling the physical equation directly and simulating it on a very fine-grained grid. (by courtesy of Prof. Kawamura et al., Tokyo Univ. of Science)