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Hello! I’m Koda, a D1 student.

At the ongoing SCA/HPCAsia 2026 conference, the award ceremony for the 2025 APAC HPC/AI Competition was held. Team To(Hoku)^2_w/R, consisting of Koda and Shubham from the Takizawa Lab and Yuya Kudo from Hokkaido University, received the “Certificate of Participation and Excellence”!
Our team tackled the HPC task of accelerating NWChem. We worked on the acceleration from July to September and presented the acceleration results in October.

At the awards ceremony, we discussed the specifics of the acceleration with students from the winning team. While our approach was similar, we didn’t place among the top winners, but we achieved a satisfying result!

Hello! This is Imai, a first-year master’s student.
The year-end party was held recently.
It was a great event where we could have open conversations regardless of nationality or academic year, making it a wonderful way to wrap up 2025.
In 2026, I hope to dedicate myself even more to my research!

Hello, this is Yuta Tanizawa, a second-year master’s student.

The Midterm Review of Master’s Thesis was held recently, and Katayama, Tanizawa, and Yanai (M2) gave their presentations.
Based on the valuable comments and feedback we received during the review, we will continue working hard toward the final thesis defense.

I would like to sincerely thank the professors and fellow students who kindly supported us through presentation rehearsals and helpful discussions.
Thank you very much for your continued guidance and encouragement.

Hello! This is Imai, a first-year master’s student.

I attended SC25, which was held in St.Louis from November 16 to 21!
SC25 is the largest international conference in the HPC industry, with 18,000 participants and over 500 organizations joining this year.

Professor Takizawa and Professor Kawai, along with students Tseng (D1), Nomura (M1), and Imai (M1), participated from our lab.
The three students presented their research posters at the Research Posters session held from November 18th to 20th.
Specifically, during the Posters Reception held on November 18th, they were able to discuss their research with researchers from all over the world.

Additionally, the students collaborated with members from other research labs at Tohoku University to set up an exhibition booth. At the booth, we introduced Tohoku University’s supercomputer systems and presented our research.

There were many lectures and exhibits that were relevant to my own research, allowing me to gain a very valuable experience.
Through the poster presentation, I received numerous ideas that I can incorporate, and I am now motivated to work even harder on my research moving forward!

Hello, I’m Tanizawa, an M2 student.

I would like to share a recent demonstration experiment conducted by the Tohoku University CyberScience Center, titled “Demonstration of Linking Multiple Heterogeneous Supercomputers for Emergency Response During Disasters”. Although I was not directly involved in the experiment, I found the results extremely interesting.

In this project, three supercomputers with different system configurations and operational setups—AOBA at Tohoku University, SQUID at Osaka University, and Furo at Nagoya University—were linked together to perform tsunami inundation predictions for three prefectures. Each calculation was completed in no more than six minutes, demonstrating the potential to rapidly utilize multiple heterogeneous supercomputers to run large-scale simulations that can contribute to disaster prevention.

This achievement represents an important first step toward building a system that can execute large-scale simulations immediately during actual disasters. Moving forward, efforts will continue to improve the technology and operational framework to establish a practical system that can be used in real-world disaster situations.

Although I was not directly involved, imagining these supercomputers working together to quickly divide and complete the calculations highlights the significant potential for applying this approach to disaster prevention.