Prof. Dr. Taisuke Boku

Dr. Taisuke Boku received Master and PhD degrees from Department of Electrical Engineering at Keio University. After his carrier as assistant professor in Department of Physics at Keio University, he joined to Center for Computational Sciences (former Center for Computational Physics) at University of Tsukuba where he is currently the deputy director, the HPC division leader and the system manager of supercomputing resources. He has been working there more than 20 years for HPC system architecture, system software, and performance evaluation on various scientific applications. In these years, he has been playing the central role of system development on CP-PACS (ranked as number one in TOP500 in 1996), FIRST (hybrid cluster with gravity accelerator), PACS-CS (bandwidth-aware cluster) and HA-PACS (high-density GPU cluster) as the representative supercomputers in Japan. He was the Chair of SIG High Performance Computing at Information Processing Society of Japan from 2006 to 2009, and also Editor in Chief of Transactions on Advanced Computing Systems at Information Processing Society of Japan from 2008 to 2009, leading high performance computing research in Japan. He also contributed to the system design of K Computer as a member of architecture design working group in RIKEN and currently a member of operation advisory board of AICS, RIKEN. He received ACM Gordon Bell Prize in 2011.