External Review
on Center for Computational Sciences,
University of Tsukuba
Date: October 30th, 31st, November 1st, 2007
Place: Center for Computational Sciences, University of Tsukuba(http://www.ccs.tsukuba.ac.jp)
External Review Committee:
Chair:

Prof. Richard Kenway, The University of Edinburgh

Vice Chair:Prof. Yoshio Oyanagi, Kogakuin University
Prof. Michael L. Norman, University of California, San Diego
Prof. Kiyoyuki Terakura,
Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Prof. Akimasa Sumi, The University of Tokyo
Prof. Herve Philippe, University of Montréal
Dr. Horst Simon, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Prof. Masaru Kitsuregawa, The University of Tokyo

Schedule:* 30th October (Tuesday) *9:30-10:00--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Welcome (Sato, Director of CCS)
Objective and schedule of the external review

10:00-10:30

Overview and current status of CCS (Sato)

10:30-11:00

Activities and results 2004 – 2007 (Ukawa)

11:00-11;30

CCS project 1: PACS-CS project (Boku)

11:30-12;00

CCS project 2: FIRST project (Umemura)

12;00-12;30

Tour to PACS-CS and FIRST

12:30-14:00

Lunch

14:00-14:25CCS project 3: ILDG/JLDG project (Sato)

14;25-14:50

Activities and Collaborations 1: Division of Particle Physics
and Astrophysics: Computational Particle Physics Group (Aoki)

14:50-15:15

Activities and Collaborations 2: Division of Global Environment andBiological Sciences: Global Environmental Science Group (Tanaka)

15:15-15:40

Activities and Collaborations 3: Division of Computational
Informatics: Computational Intelligence Group (Kitagawa)

15:40-16:05

Activities and Collaborations 4: Division of Computational
Informatics: Computational Media Group (Ohta)

16:05-16:30

Coffee break

16:30 -18:00

Parallel Tracks

Track 1 (Reviewers: Oyanagi, Simon and Kitsuregawa) : Workshop room
Division of High Performance Computing Systems
16:30-16:35 Group introduction (T. Boku)
16:35-16:50 Low-power and high-performance cluster network (T. Boku)
16:50-17:15 Gfarm distributed file system (O. Tatebe)
17:15-17:40 FFT-E and math-library (D. Takahashi)
17:40-17:50 Student presentation (1) (Y. Nakajima)
17:50-18:00 Student presentation (2) (Y. Hotta)
Track 2 (Reviewers: Kenway and Norman): Meeting room A
Division of Particle Physics and Astrophysics
16:30-17:00 Dynamical Wilson quark simulations towards the physical point(Y. Kuramashi)
17:00-17:15 Nuclear force from lattice QCD (N. Ishii)
17:15-17:30 Warm-Hot Intergalactic Medium / SIMD Acceleration ofAstrophysical Simulations (Kohji Yoshikawa)
17:30-17:45

HighResolution

SimulationofFirst

Generation

StarFormation(Tamon Suwa)
17:45-18:00 Formation and Dynamical Evolution of Globular Cluster(KenjiHasegawa)Track 3 (Reviewers: Sumi and Philippe): Meeting room B
Division of Global Environment and Biological Science
16:30-16:50 Can we include EF2 in multigene phylogenetic analyses? (Inagaki)
16:50-17:10 Centrohelida is still searching for a phylogenetic home: Analysesof 7 Raphidiophrys contractilis genes (Sakaguchi)
17:10-17:20 Prediction of water resource variation in winter under the global
warming: Case studies in Japan and Turkey (Kimura, F.)
17:20-17:30 Prediction of urbern climate using the WRF regional model(Kusaka, H)
17:30-17:40 Spectral energetics analysis of the general circulation of theatmosphere in the vertical wavenumber domain (Terasaki, K)
17:40-17:50 Evaluation of the accuracy of the ensemble Kalman filtern(Kondo, K.)
17:50-18:00 Artic Oscillation as a dynamical singular eigenmode of theatmosphere (Tanaka, H)
18:00-18:30(Committee meeting)

19:00-(Committee meeting with dinner)

* 31st October (Wednesday) * -------------------------------------------------------------------------9:30- 9:45

(Committee meeting)

9:45-10:10

Activities and Collaborations 5:
Division of High Performance Computing Systems (Boku)

10:10-10:35

Activities and Collaborations 6: Division of Materials and Life
Sciences: Computational Condensed Matter Science Group (Oshiyama)

10:35-11:00

Activities and Collaborations 7: Division of Materials and Life
Sciences: Computational Life Science Group (Tateno)

11:00-11:15

Coffee break

11:15-11:40

Activities and Collaborations 8: Division of Materials and Life
Sciences: Quantum Many-Body Systems Group (Yabana)

11:40-12:05

Activities and Collaborations 9: Division of Global Environment andBiological Sciences: Biological Science Group (Hashimoto)

11:05-12:30

Activities and Collaborations 10: Division of Particle Physics andAstrophysics: Computational Astrophysics Group (Umemura)

12:30-14:00

Lunch

14:00-15:00

Future plan of CCS (Sato)

15:00-15:30

Discussion

15:30-16:00

Coffee break

16:00-18:00

Parallel Tracks

Track 1 (Reviewers: Oyanagi, Simon and Kitsuregawa) : Workshop room
Division of Computational Informatics
16:00-16:45

1) Research Activities in Computational Intelligence Group

Hiroyuki Kitagawa, Toshiyuki Amagasa, Hideyuki Kawashima,
Yousuke Watanabe, Jianwei Zhang
16:45-17:30

2) Research Activities in Computational Media Group

Yuichi Ohta, Yoshinari Kameda, Itaru Kitahara
17:30-18:00

3) Free Discussion with Young Researchers

Track 2 (Reviewers: Kenway and Norman): Meeting room A
Division of Particle Physics and Astrophysics
16:00-16:20 $¥eta$' meson mass from lattice QCD (T. Yoshie)
16:20-16:40 Lattice QCD calculation of the $¥rho$ meson decay width(N. Ishizuka)
16:40-17:00 Non-perturbative renormalization of four-quark operators and$B_K$ with SF scheme in quenched domain-wall QCD

(Y. Taniguchi)
17:00-17:15 Radiative Magnetohydrodynamic Accretion Flows and Jets
(Yoshiaki Kato)
17:15-17:30 High-Redshift Metal Enrichment Traced by Extinction Curves(Hiroyuki Hirashita)
17:30-17:45 Study of Two Temperature and Non-Equilibrium Ionization
States of Plasma in Merging Galaxy Clusters (Takuya Akahori)
17:45-18:00 Novel Picture for Lyman Alpha Emitters (Ikkoh Shimizu)
Track 3 (Reviewers: Terakura, Sumi and Philippe): Meeting room B
Division of Materials and Life Sciences(Material Science Group)
16:00 - 16:05 Overview(Atsushi Oshiyama)

16:05 - 16:25 Prediction of New Properties in Carbon Nano-Materials (SusumuOkada)
16:25 - 16:40 Developments and Applications of Real-Space Density Functional
Theory (RSDFT) (Jun-ichi Iwata)(Life Science Group)
16:40 - 16:50 Towards Construction of Quantum Structural Biology Coupledwith Structural Bioinformatics (Masaru Tateno)
16:50-17:05 Development of Computational Methods for Analyses of Enzymatic
Reaction Mechanism and Protein Folding Problem (YosukeHagiwara)
17:05-17:20 Dynamical Information Flow Mechanisms Revealed by Computer
Simulations of Cellular Signaling Reaction Network Systems in aCell (Tatsunori Nishimura)(Quantum Many-Body Systems Group)
17:20-17:40 Quantum Dynamics in Few-Body System
17:40-17:50

Materials

withstrongelectron(Xiao-Min Tong)correlation

andstrongelectron-phonon interaction (Hiroyasu Koizumi)
17:50-18:00 Microscopic Theory of Nuclear Three-dimensional Rotational
Motion (Yukio Hashimoto)
18:00-18:30(Committee meeting)

19:00-(Committee meeting with dinner)* 1st November (Thursday) *------------------------------------------------------------------------------

9:00-10:00(Committee meeting)

10:00-11:00

Discussion, Q & A

11:00-12:30(Committee meeting)

12:30-13:30

Lunch