● Overview

Field 4 of the HPCI Strategic Program aims to achieve quality and timely breakthroughs in monozukuri (manufacturing industry) processes and early development of innovative technologies and products through the use of a High Performance Computing Infrastructure (HPCI) centered about Japan's "Kcomputer". It also aims to expand the use of HPC by developing skilled personnel to expand the user layer and by implementing promotional measures and policies, and to help make Japan's international leadership in manufacturing industry dramatically stronger in the 21st century. To this end, the plan is to promote research and development and to create a program to advance computational sciences and technologies through a network of organizations represented by the Institute of Industrial Science (IIS), University of Tokyo working with the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). Specifically, this means cooperating with industry to research and develop support systems for creating innovative technologies to make social infrastructures and consumer products drastically more efficient, smaller, and quieter (product innovation), to research and develop next-generation design systems to radically accelerate the processes for creating value and products for future society (process innovation), and to research and develop next-generation safety-evaluation and stress-test systems for significantly improving the reliability of large-scale plants (creation of a safe and secure society). A variety of activities will also be promoted to encourage industry to make extensive use of the advanced R&D results achieved through this program.

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