The first main task of our center is supercomputing system administration and support; ①Administration, operation, and maintenance of our supercomputing system, ②General supports for users of our supercomputing system, ③Supports for parallel computation techniques in our supercomputing system, and ④Holding lecture courses for application software in our supercomputing system.
The second main task of our center is research and development for computational materials science; ⑤Development and application of superlarge-scale application software for the supercomputer, ⑥Development of multi-physics computational science methodology and its application to materials design, ⑦Research on basic theory for multi-scale materials science and its application to materials design, and ⑧Research on materials informatics technology and its application to materials development.
The third main task of our center is collaboration with and support for other institutes and projects; ⑨Collaboration with HPCI (High Performance Computing Infrastructure), ⑩Supply of our computational resources to supercomputing consortium for computational materials science (collaboration with supercomputer centers in Institute for Solid State Physics and Institute for Molecular Science), ⑪Collaboration with and support for the Program for Promoting Research on the Supercomputer Fugaku, ⑫Management of the Professional development Consortium for Computational Materials Scientists, and ⑬Management of Computational Materials Science Forum (collaboration with Supercomputer Centers at the Institute for Solid State Physics and Institute for Molecular Science, and Osaka University R3 Institute for Newly-Emerging Science Design).