Hi, This is Specially Appointed Assistant Professor Tao!
From July 9 to 10, 2026, we attended the 18th JHPCN Symposium at Tokyo Conference Center Shinagawa. JHPCN, the Joint Usage/Research Center for Interdisciplinary Large-scale Information Infrastructures, brings together information infrastructure centers at eight universities in Japan to promote interdisciplinary research across computational science, computer science, and data science. The symposium provided a forum for sharing the latest research results and plans from JHPCN projects.
The symposium featured a wide range of topics, including the operation of high-performance computing (HPC) systems, job scheduling and storage technologies, artificial intelligence and machine learning, weather and climate prediction, simulations in materials and life sciences, computing for disaster prevention, and quantum-HPC integration. In an invited talk titled “Quantum-Centric Supercomputing: Current Status and Future Prospects,” Hiroshi Horii of IBM Quantum Japan discussed the current state and future of next-generation computing platforms that flexibly integrate quantum processing units (QPUs), graphics processing units (GPUs), and central processing units (CPUs). From our laboratory, Prof. Takizawa presented his work on an urgent computing infrastructure that leverages supercomputers across multiple sites. The symposium reaffirmed the importance of applying advanced computing resources and system software to real-world challenges in interdisciplinary computational research. I hope to apply the insights gained to my future research and to user support at the Cyberscience Center.
