Masaaki Kondo

Riken / Keio University, Japan

FugakuNEXT Development Project - Paving the Wat to AI-for-Science Era

Abstract

The demand for high-performance computing continues to grow, serving as a vital foundation for both scientific research and AI. As we move beyond the exascale era, developing next-generation supercomputing systems is essential to establish a new computing infrastructure for these fields. RIKEN has been selected as the lead institution to develop Japan’s next national flagship supercomputer, the successor to Fugaku. In January 2025, we officially launched the FugakuNEXT project to develop and deploy this new system as a AI-for-Science machine, aiming to achieve world-class performance in both simulation and AI. In this talk, we provide the current status of the FugakuNEXT project and why AI-for-Science is crucial for future society.

Biography

Masaaki Kondo received the BS degree in information engineering, in 1998, the MS degree in engineering from the University of Tsukuba, in 2000, and the Ph.D. degree from The University of Tokyo, in 2003. He is currently a professor of information and computer science at Keio University. He is also working at the RIKEN Center for Computational Science as the division director of Next-Generation HPC Infrastructure Development Division. Currently, his research interests include computer architecture, high performance computing, VLSI designs, artificial intelligence, and quantum computing.

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