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Fugaku-based work on COVID-19 spread wins special 2021 Gordon Bell prize
Fugaku-based work on COVID-19 spread wins special 2021 Gordon Bell prize
JapaneseA group of six researchers from the RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS) and collaborators won the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Gordon Bell Special Prize for High Performance Computing-Based COVID-19 Research for their work, “Digital transformation of droplet/aerosol infection risk assessment realized on ‘Fugaku’ for the fight against COVID-19,” modeling the spread of droplets and aerosols using the supercomputer Fugaku.
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Fugaku extends its reign as champion of supercomputers(RIKEN website)
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Makoto Tsubokura (second from left) and Satoshi Matsuoka (third from left) at the SC21 Awards Ceremony
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