Event

Our research division hosted a booth at SC22, the largest international conference and exhibit in the field of high-performance computing. This year, SC was held in Dallas, Texas, from November 13 to 18. Cyberscience Center has been jointly hosting a booth with the Institute for Fluid Science and Institute for Materials Research of Tohoku University at every SC. It has been three years since we hosted a booth in-person at SC19, the last SC held before the COVID-19 pandemic.

Please see this page for Cyberscience Center’s exhibit.

Professor Takizawa and Assistant Professor Takahashi gave talks at the 34th Workshop on Sustained Simulation Performance (WSSP34) held on October 24 and 25, 2022.

WSSP is a biannual international workshop jointly organized by Cyberscience Center and High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart. This time, speakers gathered at Cyberscience Center in-person, whereas attendees joined the workshop online. The program of the workshop is available here.

• Hiroyuki Takizawa, Keichi Takahashi, Yoichi Shimomura, Ryusuke Egawa, Kenji Oizumi, Satoshi Ono, Takeshi Yamashita, and Atsuko Saito, “AOBA: The most powerful vector supercomputer in the world”
• Keichi Takahashi and Gerald M. Pao, “Challenges in Scaling Empirical Dynamic Modeling”

Hello, this is Koda from B4.

The other day, as the summer vacation was over, all the students did a big cleanup of the laboratory.
The cleaning included air conditioner filters, servers, and other areas that cannot be cleaned in the normal laboratory cleaning process.

I hope we can continue to do periodic cleanups to make our lab environment even better!

Wassapon Watanakeesuntorn, a Ph.D. student from the Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST) in Nara, Japan, visited our laboratory. While his stay at our laboratory from September 6 to 16, he interacted with students and also gave a talk about his Ph.D. research.
He told us that he enjoyed visiting several tourist spots around Sendai over the weekend. Below is a photo of grilled beef tongue, one of the specialities of Sendai, taken by Wassapon.

Hello. I am Yanai, a B3 student who has been a member of Takizawa Laboratory since spring.

The other day, we had our first semester launch!
We could have held it offline, but due to the re-expansion of Corona, we decided to hold it online. I had never had a face-to-face meeting in my laboratory.
I was a little disappointed, but the conversation was lively online and it was a fun meeting.

Hi, my name is Mike Zielewski, and I’m in the second year of my doctoral program.

All PhD students in the Graduate School of Information Sciences are required to present their research progress to the graduate school at least once during their studies. This presentation is typically done in the second year of the doctoral program, when most students have conducted some amount of novel research. Anyone can attend these presentations, including other students, staff, and professors.

Since anyone is allowed to attend, students are encouraged to present in such a way that even someone from a completely foreign field can understand the work. This is important because if descriptions are too detailed, then very few people will understand the research presented. On the other hand, if the presentation is too vague, students may not be able to convey the significance behind the work. Because finding such a balance to efficiently and effectively communicate ideas is so important in research, the graduate school allows attendees to vote for the best presentations.

I am honored to have been one of the students who received a best presentation award. I believe the environment created by this lab was instrumental in my ability to create effective presentations. First, the lab provides ample opportunities to present our progress, and thus practice public speaking. Additionally, professors in the lab provide constructive criticism and encourage the use of descriptive figures.

In fact, I think these are two of the most important skills for presentations. Speakers should be able to present their work clearly and concisely, so as to avoid confusion and keep the attention of the audience. Figures and images should work as visual aides that summarize ideas without being overly complex. Finally, presentations should be adapted to the audience, as there are some situations where it is not only acceptable, but expected, to go into the fine details of the work.

I appreciate the opportunities this lab has provided and I look forward to further developing my presentation skills that I can use throughout my career.

Hello. I am Kaneko, a M2 student. The other day, members of the system section moved the server rack.
In our laboratory, students are divided into sections to share the work in the laboratory, and we, the system section, are in charge of managing the servers in the laboratory.

The servers (muffin, monaka, and muffin2), which were recently introduced to the lab, have been managed on the desks in the lab because of the possibility of frequent configuration changes.
However, we decided to move muffin and monaka to the rack because it is out of the way to keep the server on the desk and it is likely to fall down in case of an earthquake.

The work was successfully completed in about two hours despite some trouble, and we feel that the laboratory space has become a little more spacious.

P.S.
Through this work we learned an important thing to solve the problem of server installation.
–Power.
We were able to solve some problems by brute force. After all, power is everything. We will continue to work on various tasks in the system section and will keep this lesson in mind.

Hello! This is Koda of B4.

The Henepata seminar, a joint effort between Takizawa Laboratory and Kobayashi/Sato Laboratory, was recently completed.
The Henepata Seminar is a seminar in which we read the book “Composition and Design of Computers” written by Patterson and Hennessy and present the contents of the book.

This year, three B4 students from Takizawa Laboratory and seven B4 and M1 students from Kobayashi Laboratory participated in the seminar and discussed the basics of computer configuration.
In addition, professors and senior students gave us advice on our presentations and supplemented the content to deepen our understanding.

I am determined to make use of the basic computer knowledge I learned this time and do my best in my future research activities!

Nice to meet you!
I am Daiki Nakai, a first-year master’s student at Tohoku Graduate School.
As it is the Corona Disaster, the open campus is now online.
The dates and times are 10:00~17:00 on 7/27 and 7/28.
If you want to hear real voices of current students, please feel free to join us!
Click hereto participate
pass is “superlab”.

Hello there. This is Aoyagi.
Recently a new server was installed in our laboratory. This server will be equipped with GPUs and VEs, and will be used for research.
Due to its similarity in size and use purpuse, it was named “muffin2” after “muffin”, the server which was installed last year.
Let’s see inside our new mate. You can see there are a lot of memory slots, actually 32 slots. In the picture below, you can see 8 slots are taken already.
But the main memory reaches 128G byte already. If we install memories to the rest 24 slots it would be possible to produce “a beast” with 1T byte main memory.
I’m really looking forward to seeing the day!