Professor Satoshi Matsuoka, of the Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) researches and designs large scale supercomputers and similar infrastructures. More recently, he has worked on the convergence of Big Data, machine/deep learning, and AI with traditional HPC, as well as investigating the Post-Moore Technologies towards 2025.

He has designed supercomputers for years and has collaborated on projects involving basic elements for the current and more importantly future Exascale systems.

Interview – The Next Platform (August 2017)  

Inside Tokyo Tech’s Massive TSUBAME 3 Supercomputer

 

 

Post-K: A Game Changing Supercomputer for Convergence of HPC and Big Data / AI

Satoshi Matsuoka

Director Riken-CCS /

Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology. Tokyo, Japan

 

Abstract

With rapid rise and increase of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (BD/AI) as a new breed of high-performance workloads on supercomputers, we need to accommodate them at scale, and thus the need for R&D for HW and SW Infrastructures where traditional simulation-based HPC and BD/AI would converge, in a BYTES-oriented fashion. The TSUBAME3 supercomputer at Tokyo Institute of Technology which has become online in August 2017, embodies various BYTES-oriented features to allow for such convergence to happen at scale, including significant scalable horizontal bandwidth as well as support for deep memory hierarchy and capacity, along with high flops in low precision arithmetic for deep learning. TSUBAME3’s technologies have been commoditized to construct one of the world’s largest BD/AI focused open and public computing infrastructure called ABCI (AI-Based Bridging Infrastructure), hosted by AIST-AIRC (AI Research Center), the largest public funded AI research center in Japan. Although not a supercomputer for HPC, its Linpack ranking is No.1 in Japan and No.5 in the world, as well as embodying 550 AI-Petaflops for AI, as well as being extremely energy efficient with novel warm water cooling pod design. Finally, Post-K is the flagship next generation national supercomputer being developed in collaboration by Riken and Fujitsu. Post-K will have hyperscale class resources in one exascale machine, with well more than 100,000 nodes of server-class A64FX many-core Arm CPUs, realized through extensive co-design process involving the entire Japanese HPC community.

Post-K is slated to perform 100 times faster on some key applications c.f. its predecessor, the K-Computer, but also will likely to be the premier big data and AI/Machine Learning infrastructure. Currently, we are conducting research to scale deep learning to more than 100,000 nodes on Post-K, where we would obtain near top GPU-class performance on each node.

Wednesday 13th February 2019 – 4:10 pm – 4:50 pm – Schedule

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Bio (2017):

Satoshi Matsuoka has been a Full Professor at the Global Scientific Information and Computing Center (GSIC), a Japanese national supercomputing center hosted by the Tokyo Institute of Technology, and since 2016 a Fellow at the AI Research Center (AIRC), AIST, the largest national lab in Japan. He received his Ph. D. from the University of  Tokyo in 1993. He is the leader of the TSUBAME series of supercomputers, including TSUBAME2.0 which was the first supercomputer in Japan to exceed Petaflop performance and became the 4th fastest in the world on the Top500 in Nov. 2010, as well as the recent TSUBAME-KFC becoming #1 in the world for power efficiency for both the Green 500 and Green Graph 500 lists in Nov. 2013. He is also currently leading several major supercomputing research projects, such as the MEXT Green Supercomputing, JSPS Billion-Scale Supercomputer Resilience, as well as the JST-CREST Extreme Big Data. He has written over 500 articles according to Google Scholar, and chaired numerous ACM/IEEE conferences, most recently the overall Technical Program Chair at the ACM/IEEE Supercomputing Conference (SC13) in 2013. He is a fellow of the ACM and European ISC, and has won many awards, including the JSPS Prize from the Japan Society for Promotion of Science in 2006, awarded by his Highness Prince Akishino, the ACM Gordon Bell Prize in 2011, the Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in 2012, and recently the 2014 IEEE-CS Sidney Fernbach Memorial Award, the highest prestige in the field of HPC.

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Panel – Thursday 14

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(Photos: Prof Matsuoka at VI Multicore World, February 2017, Wellington, New Zealand)