Author

Taisuke Boku has been researching HPC system architecture, system software, and performance evaluation on various scientific applications. He is currently the director for Center for Computational Sciences, University of Tsukuba, a co-designing center with both application researchers and HPC system researchers. He has been playing a central roles for development of original supercomputers in the center including CP-PACS (ranked as number one in TOP500 in 1996), FIRST, PACS-CS, HA-PACS and Cygnus systems, the representative supercomputers in Japan. The recent system Cygnus is the world first multi-hybrid accelerated system with GPU and FPGA together. He has been the President of HPCI (High Performance Computing Infrastructure) Consortium in Japan in 2020-2022. He was a member of system architecture working group of Fugaku supercomputer development. He received ACM Gordon Bell Prize in 2011.