Event

Hello, my name is Nakai, an M2 student.
The main review meeting for master’s degree was held from February 7.
From Takizawa Lab, three students, Aoyagi, Ishii, and Nakai made presentations.
We are happy that all of them successfully completed their presentations and submitted their master’s theses (duplicates) by the deadline.

We will continue to work hard until the submission of the final draft of the master’s thesis, taking into consideration the comments given by the judges in this presentation.
I would like to thank all the professors in my laboratory for their time and effort in helping me revise my thesis and practice my presentation.

Hello, this is Tanizawa from B4.
graduation research presentation program was held on February 13~14. With the help of my professors and seniors, I was able to successfully complete my presentation.
I was able to listen to the research of other students in the aerospace engineering course at the presentation, which was very interesting and informative.
Now we will start writing our graduation theses. I will keep working hard until the deadline on March 4!

Hello, I am Nakai from M2.

I participated in HPCAsia2024, which was held from 25 to 27 January.
From our lab, Mike, Sai, Aoyagi, Ishii and Nakai participated in the poster session.
The programme of the poster session can be found here.

It was the first time for us to make a presentation in English, and we had a hard time, but it was a good experience.
The hitsu-mabushi we all ate together was also very delicious.

The Ph.D. Dissertation Defense was held on January 12.
Two students from Takizawa Lab, Mike and Liu, gave presentations on their doctoral dissertations.

The titles are:
Mike: Enhancing Quantum Annealing Performance through Thermalization
Liu: Contention-aware Control Mechanisms for Shared Caches on Multiprocessors

Based on the questions and comments raised by the committee members, they will update and improve the final drafts of their dissertations.
Congratulations on reaching this important milestone!
Wish them a perfect conclusion to their student life in Takizawa Lab.

Hi, my name is Hang Cui, and I’m in the second year of my doctoral program.
I attended the PhD student presentation hosted by Graduate School of Information Sciences (GSIS) in Dec. 25, 2023. Students, staff and professors from various fields attended this event. Second year PhD students presented their researches. Attends asked question and gave comments about the presented research.
I am honored to have been one of the students who received a best presentation award. I believe the environment created by this lab helped me a lot in organizing the materials, interacting with the audiences and other skills in a presentation.
I appreciate the opportunity created by GSIS, and I believe the comments from this event can help me improving my research.

Hello, my name is Tanizawa from B4.
The other day, we held a year-end party in our laboratory. It was the first time for us to have a year-end party in person since the beginning of Corona, but it was fun to get to know a side of the members that we don’t usually see.
I am going to take a good rest at the end of the year and start working hard again next year with a renewed spirit.

Professor Takizawa gave talk at the 36th Workshop on Sustained Simulation Performance (WSSP36) held on December 11 and 12, 2023.
WSSP is a biannual international workshop jointly organized by Cyberscience Center and High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart. This time, the presenters and audience participated on-site at the Cyber Science Centere. The event was well attended and very exciting.
The program of the workshop is available here.

• Hiroyuki Takizawa, “Strategy and outlook for expanding the AOBA world”

I recently attended SC23, one of the largest conferences in HPC. It was my first time attending such a large conference in person and I was amazed at the variety of topics, including ones I had never heard of before!

I really enjoyed listening to some of the talks on healthcare, privacy, and machine learning as well as speaking with some of the presenters. Going through the exhibit hall was also an interesting experience as I had the chance to talk at a more relaxed pace. While I spent most of my time at booths for research institutes, I also had the chance to see how some companies are developing research ideas in to commercial products.

Overall, I had a great time attending the conference. I hope other students get the chance to go to similar conferences and broaden their knowledge on research topics in HPC.

Our new supercomputer “AOBA-S,” which started operation in August 2023, has been registered in the November 2023 Top500 list.  The list was announced on November 14, 2023 (local time) at SC23, an international conference on high-performance computing held in Denver, USA. AOBA-S was ranked 10th in the HPCG list and 50th in the Top500 list.

Assistant Professor Takahashi presented the following paper at the Fourth International Workshop on Quantum Computing Software held in conjunction with SC23. In this paper, we prototyped and evaluated a batched state vector simulator on a vector processor for simulating many quantum circuits in parallel, for the purpose of studying noisy quantum computers and variational quantum algorithms.

Keichi Takahashi, Toshio Mori, Hiroyuki Takizawa, “Prototype of a Batched Quantum Circuit Simulator for the Vector Engine,” Fourth International Workshop on Quantum Computing Software held in conjunction with SC23: The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis, Nov. 2023. 10.1145/3624062.3624226