Report on 2026 ACM Second Asian School on High-Performance Computing and Artificial Intelligence

On the first day of the school, keynote adresses were delivered. Prof. Kathy Yelick, Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of California, Berkeley, delivered a speech entitled “Mapping Irregular Computations to Accelerator-Based Exascale Systems”, and R-CCS Director, Dr. Satoshi Matsuoka delivered a speech, entitled “RIKEN R-CCS and FugakuNEXT, Next Generation National Flagship System in Japan”.　On the second and third days, the program featured plenary lectures and lightning talks by participants. On the fourth and fifth days, parallel sessions were held in three fields: Life Science, Material Science, and Earth Science.

 Participants provided highly positive feedback, including comments such as:

“The classes were informative and precise and the professors were all very knowledgeable.”　

“Overall, the academic content and interactions with lecturers and participants made this school a very valuable experience.”

“The program is compact and well-structured, with a good balance between theoretical and hands-on sessions. ”

*The next school is scheduled to be held in Singapore from March 1 to March 5, 2027.

*School lecture videos are available on the Computational Science e-Learning Archive Channel.

Note: This school was supported by the COE research grant in computational science from Hyogo Prefecture and Kobe City through the Foundation for Computational Science (FOCUS).