project

[The Cyber Science Infrastructure plan]

The Cyber Science Infrastructure will be an advanced research and education environment for academic information, under which universities and research organizations connect their existing computer systems on high-speed networks such as SINET3. It will then be possible to share software, academic resources, and databases, and for institutions to share personnel and research groups.

The Cyber Science Infrastructure is currently being set up by the National Institute of Informatics and the Inter-University Information Technology Centers. As a national leadership system, the Next-Generation Supercomputer will communicate and collaborate with supercomputers at universities and other research institutes over the Cyber Science Infrastructure.

[Promoting use by industry, universities, and research institutes]

The Next-Generation Supercomputer will be a legally designated “advanced large-scale research facility”, so scientists and engineers from across

Japan

will be able to use it. RIKEN will make use of its experience in running SPring-8, the large synchrotron radiation facility, to set up an efficient system for organizing the use of the supercomputer.