The first main task is administration and support of supercomputing system “MASAMUNE-II”; ①Administration, operation, and maintenance of our supercomputing system, ②General supports for users of our supercomputing system, ③Holding lecture courses for application software in our supercomputing system, and ④Holding GPU lecture & hands-on training.
The second main task 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 multiscale materials science and its application to materials design, and ⑧Research on materials informatics technology and its application to materials development.
The third main task is collaboration with and support for other institutes and projects; ⑨Collaboration with HPCI (High Performance Computing Infrastructure), ⑩Management of the Professional development Consortium for Computational Materials Scientists, and ⑪Management 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).
