RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS) will be holding a summer school to give early career researchers in computational science an opportunity to learn programming techniques for parallel computers, aiming to foster scientists who will lead the field on the international stage in the future. Scientists from R-CCS will provide lectures and the K computer will be used for hands-on training. This program will be provided in English.

■ Introduction of lectures

	Lecturer Hiroya Matsuba Team Leader HPC Usability Research Team
	Lecturer Kentaro Sano Team Leader Processor Research Team
	Lecturer Toshiyuki Imamura Team Leader Large-scale Parallel Numerical Computing Technology Research Team
	Lecturer Manabu Yagi Programming Environment Research Team

■ Administrative Office

1. Date and Venue

2. Sponsored by

3. Cosponsored by

4. Supported by

5. Qualifications

6. Program

Note: In this summer school, R-CCS’s K computer will be used for hand-on training.

7. Application for participation

8. Inquiries

The RIKEN AICS HPC Youth Workshop 2017, a computational science and technology workshop for students and young researchers, took place at AICS on February 5 and 6. This workshop began last fiscal year, aiming at human resource development of students and young researchers in the computational science field.
Directed at helping participants improve their communication skills for an international setting, as well as getting to know each other and form networks, the event had a strong international flavor with all presentations and discussions in English. A total of 19 people attended, including PhDs from overseas institutions, foreign exchange students in Japan, and Japanese students and researchers.

The workshop began with an orientation and mini lectures by AICS laboratory team leaders. Then participants were divided into four groups where they gave presentations on their own research. Two young researchers from AICS joined each group as mentors. A topic for discussion was given to each group and a summary was presented at the wrap-up session.

Final presentation material:
• Group A
• Group B
• Group C
• Group D

Not only the presentation of their research, but also the small group discussions on a designated topic contributed to improving English and communication skills. The contents of the discussions were very interesting, such as ideas for collaboration between different research fields.

The lectures by Dr. Ishikawa(AICS) and Dr. Yibing Shan(D. E. Shaw Research) were well received. A social gathering was planned this year in response to comments received last year indicating that participants wanted to hear about the research presented in other groups. Comments from this year’s participants included, “It was interesting to talk with man researchers from different fields” and “The event provided a great opportunity to get to know each other.” Some groups even went out to eat with each other after the event.
Taking into consideration the feedback we received, we plan to hold the workshop again next year. We look forward to your participation!

The RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science (AICS) is calling for applications to attend the International HPC Summer School 2018 which AICS will be co-hosting with other research institutes in Europe, the US and Canada. AICS will invite approx. 10 selected young applicants to the program. If you are interested in applying, please read the information and apply through the International HPC Summer School(IHPCSS) website.

The international summer school will provide an opportunity for young researchers to broaden their perspective and acquire new knowledge through lectures and workshops offered by the leading scientists in the HPC field and to network with other participants from many parts of the world. The objective is to foster young scientists who can lead future advances in the HPC field.

Report (in Japanese): International HPC Summer School 2017 in Boulder, Colorado, USA

This program started as the European-U.S. Summer School on HPC Challenges in Computational Sciences. Japan participated for the first time in 2013 and Canada followed in 2014. This year’s event will be the 9th International Summer School on HPC Challenges in Computational Sciences.

Summer school outline

Dates: July 8 – 13, 2018
Place: Prague Ostrava, Czech Republic
Sponsors:

• RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science (AICS)
• Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE)
• Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE)
• SciNet HPC Consortium (SciNet)

Events

Leading European, Canadian, Japanese and American computational scientists and HPC technologists will offer instruction on a variety of topics, including:

• HPC challenges by discipline (previous year: earth, life and materials sciences, physics)
• HPC Programming Proficiencies
• Performance analysis and profiling
• Algorithmic approaches and numerical libraries
• Data-intensive computing
• Scientific visualization
• Canadian, European, Japanese and U.S. HPC infrastructures

Eligibility:

Young scientists, including graduate and PhD students (about 80 individuals in total)
Note: Approx. 10 successful applicants will be invited from Japan.
Applicants must belong to universities whose head or the delegated person can issue a formal letter of request on behalf of applicants.
Note: AICS will cover the cost of round trip airfare, accommodation and meals.

For more information and application, see the school website below.

International HPC Summer School

Application deadline:

Tuesday, February 13, 2018
Note: The submitted information is strictly controlled based on RIKEN Personal Information Protection Regulations and used only for the purpose of screening. Any private information in applications is not disclosed to third parties, either intentionally or through negligence.

RIKEN AICS will organize a Youth Workshop for young researchers and students in computational science and technology. Through English presentations and discussions, this workshop aims to create a network of collaborations among young researchers, and to foster their research communication skills in an international setting, as well as improving their own research through the discussion.

Information in Japanese

1. Date and location

February 5 (Mon), 2018 to February 6 (Tue), 2018
RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science (AICS) in Kobe, Japan
Access: How to get there.

2. Purpose

• This workshop aims at creating a network of collaborations among young researchers, and at improving their research communication skills.
• This workshop is open to young researchers at corporations, universities and research institutes (including technical colleges and graduate schools) who is expected to become the next-generation leaders in the fields of computational science and high-performance computing.
• Young researchers from overseas will participate in this workshop. To encourage participants to take the initiative in interacting with each other, presentations and group discussions will be held in English in small groups.
• AICS staffs will serve as mentors for each group and participate in the discussions.
• We will also hold 'the 8th AICS International Symposium'at the same venue from Feb.7-8 for discussing leading-edge research and development activities in high performance computing. For youth workshop participants, we recommend to join the event and poster presentation.

Note: Official language is English.

	Committee Chief of Youth Workshop -Programming Environment Research Team -Architecture Development Team Team Leader Mitsuhisa Sato
	Committee member of Youth Workshop -Large-scale Parallel Numerical Computing Technology Research Team Team Leader Toshiyuki Imamura

	Mentor -Large-scale Parallel Numerical Computing Technology Research Team Yiyu Tan		Mentor -Programming Environment Research Team -Architecture Development Team Miwako Tsuji
	Mentor -Data Assimilation Research Team Koji Terasaki		Mentor -Field Theory Research Team -Application Development Team Yoshifumi Nakamura
	Mentor -Computational Molecular Science Team William Dawson		Mentor -Programming Environment Research Team -Architecture Development Team Jinpil Lee
	Mentor -Computational Molecular Science Team -Application Development Team Yukio Kawashima		Mentor/Administrative Office -Programming Environment Research Team Manabu Yagi

3. Program overview (tentative) *Updated on Dec.11

Monday, February 5

Tuesday, February6

* Venue (1F)、Lecture Hall (6F)、Lounge (6F)、R511 (5F)、FOCUS (next to AICS building 1F)

4. Application requirements

• Approximately 20 seats (10-15 seats for applicants from Japan. 5-10 seats for applicants from overseas)are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Adjustments may be made to balance applicants from different college and other institutes.
• Apply here. *closed
• Participants should have a clear motive for participating in this workshop, such as being involved in computational science or computer science research.
• It is assumed that the participants bring your notebook computer for making presentations during the workshop.
• Application deadline:
  - For participants in Japan:
  January 15 (Mon) 5 pm (Japan time) *extended
  - For participants from abroad:
  December１5 (Fri) 5 pm (Japan time)
  
• Full participation for the duration of the program is required.

Information about the expenses that RIKEN will cover

- For participants in Japan:


• RIKEN will pay for students's travel and accommodation expenses.
• Travel expenses include transportation fee to/from Kobe, and the fee between hotel and AICS during the workshop.
• Expenses will be reimbursed after the workshop via bank transfer in accordance with RIKEN regulations.

- For participants from abroad:

• RIKEN will pay for students' travel and accommodation expenses.
• Travel expenses include international travel cost and the one to/from Kobe. It includes only transportation fee between hotel and AICS.
• More detail about the cost will be informed during the workshop. Please contact us if you have any question.

Note: Handling of personal information
Personal information will only be used for notices from RIKIEN regarding changes in the schedule, reference materials, and the collecting data for the workshop. No personal information will be handled or used in any way that would identify the individual concerned.

5. Host

• RIKEN AICS

6. Sponsors

• Nine Priority Issues on Post-K Development Project
• Foundation for Computational Science(FOCUS) *Only in Japanese
• High Performance Computer Infrastructure (HPCI) Consortium
• Research organization for Information Science & Technology(RIST)

7. Inquiries

Computational Science Planning Office, RIKEN AICS
7-1-26, Minatojima-minamimachi, Chuo-ku, Kobe, 650-0047, JAPAN
E-mail：aics-renkei[at]riken.jp*
*Please change [at] to @ when sending email

Please stop by RIKEN AICS's booth(#905) to look at K computer's usage situation, recent research highlights and an introduction to the development of the post-K computer, and activities of human development and international collaboration.

Exhibit Panels

GENESIS (GENeralized-Ensemble SImulation System) is molecular dynamics and modeling software for bimolecular systems such as proteins, lipids, glycans, and their complexes. GENESIS is open source software distributed under the GPLv2 license.

【News】2017.11.16
   Best Poster Award for 2nd Consecutive Time!

【News】2017.11.16
   No.1 for 6th consecutive time in Graph 500 “Big Data” Supercomputer Ranking (BFS)

【News】2017.11.15
   2017 HPCwire Awards – Readers’ Choice

【News】2017.11.15
   HPCG - 1st place for the 3rd consecutive time!   Detail

Workshops and Presentations from RIKEN AICS

Nov.12(SUN)

Nov.13(MON)

Nov.14(TUE)

Nov.15(WED)

Nov.16(THU)

SC17 Exhibit Panels

• organization and activities of human development and international collaboration（PDF 8.45MB）
• Research Division（PDF 5.75MB）
• Operations and Computer Technologies Division（PDF 7.93MB）
• Post-K computer（PDF 7.27MB）

RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science (AICS) has hosted an international internship program. This internship program will foster researchers dedicated to HPC (High Performance Computer) technology and computational science, with the aim to orient them to R&D in leading-edge computational science, by providing them with the opportunity to work in AICS research teams where they will gain a better understanding of computational science technology.

1. Sponsor
RIKEN AICS

2. Internship period
Applicants and hosting research teams may set appropriate periods by mutual agreement for the internship duration, up to 90 days between June and October, 2018.

3. Workplace
Hosting research team’s laboratory or common use space at RIKEN AICS

4. Qualification
Applicants must belong to a university whose head or the delegated person can issue a formal letter of request on behalf of applicants (Ph.D program). When Postdoctoral Fellows in other institutes wish to apply for the program, please contact us individually.

5. Number to be admitted
A few

6. Promotion for the program
The internship program will be advertised at the SC17 Student/Postdoc Job Fair held in November 15, 10 am – 3pm in the Colorado Convention Center.

7. Program details
Details are subject to guidelines determined by the hosting research team.

8. Working hours
Interns must work on every RIKEN working day during internship period. Daily schedule: 9:00 to 17:20 (Lunch break: 12:00 to 12:50)

9. Screening
Document screening will be carried out after the deadline for this call.

10. Application procedures and deadline
Application documents described below must be submitted in advance to aics-internship[at]riken.jp* by Friday, March 30, 2018.
*Please change [at] to @ when sending email

- C.V. with photo. Contact information such as email address is required. Include your affiliation and advising professor’s name.
- The reason why you have applied.
(Refer to the information on AICS research teams and give a specific research field, or name of the research team you wish to join, and internship period preference.)

List of Research Teams with internship opportunities available:

Research Division

• System Software Research Team
• Programming Environment Research Team
• Processor Research Team
• Large-scale Parallel Numerical Computing Technology Research Team
• Discrete Event Simulation Research Team
• Computational Molecular Science Research Team
• Computational Materials Science Research Team
• Particle Simulator Research Team
• Computational Climate Science Research Team
• Complex Phenomena Unified Simulation Research Team
• Data Assimilation Research Team

Flagship 2020 Project

• System Software Development Team
• Architecture Development Team
• Application Development Team
• Co-Design Team

Operations and Computer Technologies Division

• HPC Usability Development Team

- Prepare a formal letter of request issued by head of your institute or a delegated person (Click here to download the application forms.) and submit it.

Note: Handling of personal information
Personal information will only be used for notices from RIKIEN regarding changes in the schedule, reference materials, and the collecting data for the workshop. No personal information will be handled or used in any way that would identify the individual concerned.

11. Expenses and allowance

12. Inquiries
Intern hosting desk
RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science (AICS)
7-1-26 Minatojima-minamimachi, Chuo-ku, Kobe, Hyogo, 650-0047 Japan
Email: aics-internship[at]riken.jp*

Annual open house day will be held at RIKEN AICS on October 14th, 2017. Although most presentations and activities will be held in Japanese, we have some English speaking staff and everyone is welcome to join. Please enjoy the already-famous view of the K computer as well as activities for kids, introduction of researches and others.
Information in Japanese（日本語での情報はこちら）

◆Open House day at RIKEN AICS◆

Program 1

• Take a look at K computer!
• Introduction of researches by RIKEN AICS
  
• Small seminars (only in Japanese)
• Exhibition corner
• Kobe Simulation Kingdom
• Virtual tour for facilities
• Tsunami simulation with VR omnidirectional treadmills (For age 13-year old and up)
• Survey of the AICS researchers (only in Japanese)
• Supercomputer quiz rally 2017

Other important points

• The event will be recorded to keep a record. The recording may be used for public relations magazines, Facebook, or websites as part of our public relations effort.
• Event participants may also be interviewed and filmed by the press, who may report on the event.
• The event content and schedule may be subject to change.

If you have any inquires, please contact aics-koho[at]riken.jp.(please change [at] to @)

Link

• RIKEN KOBE Campus Open House Day(currently only in Japanese website)

Please stop by RIKEN AICS's booth(#G-800) to look at K computer's usage situation, recent research highlights and an introduction to FLAGSHIP 2020 Project, the development of the post-K computer, and activities of human development and international collaboration.

And RIKEN AICS will participate in STEM Student Day & Gala in this year. If you are an student and interested in our research activities, please drop by our booth or join STEM Student Day & Gala.

FYI - Major supercomputer rankings: Top500 and Green500, Graph500, HPCG.

【News】2017.6.23
   Graph 500 - 1st place again!
   5 consecutive time.

【News】2017.6.20
   HPCG - 1st place again!   Detail

【News】2017.6.20
   Research Poster Award!  Detail (in Japanese)
   For Daichi Mukunoki (Architecture Development Team, Flagship 2020 Project)

Workshops and Presentations from RIKEN AICS

June 20 (Tue.)

Research Posters - Presentations & Awards

"Implementation & Evaluation of 2.5D Matrix Multiplication on K Computer"
Daichi Mukunoki (Architecture Development Team, Flagship 2020 Project)
【Research Poster Award!】

BoF 06

Cloud Resolving Global Earth-System Models: HPC at Its Extreme
"Recent Extreme-Scale Simulation Efforts for NICAM"
Hisashi Yashiro (Application Development Team, Flagship 2020 Project)

Research Paper Session 05 - Data & I/O

"Alleviating I/O Interference through Workload-Aware Striping & Load-Balancing on Parallel File Systems"
Yuichi Tsujita (System Operations and Development Team, Operations and Computer Technologies Division)

June 22 (Thu.)

Other Relevant Programs

June 21 (Wed.)

HPC in Asia Poster Session

(A06) Poster from Japan 2
"A Fast Implicit Unstructured Low-Order Finite-Element Solver for Enhancing Integrated Earthquake Simulation"
Kohei Fujita (The University of Tokyo)