Taisuke Boku

Taisuke Boku (Member, IEEE) received the master’s and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Keio University. After his career as an Assistant Professor with the Department of Physics, Keio University, he joined the Center for Computational Sciences (formerly the Center for Computational Physics), University of Tsukuba, where he is currently the Director and the HPC Division Leader. He has been working there more than 25 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, PACS-CS, HA-PACS, and Cygnus as the representative supercomputers in Japan. He is also the Director of the Center for Computational Sciences, University of Tsukuba, and the Vice Director of the Joint Center for Advanced HPC (JCAHPC). He is also the President of HPCI Consortium, which is the global community in Japan covering all the supercomputer resource operation centers and major computational science research communities. He is a member of the System Architecture Working Group of Post-K Computer development. He received the ACM Gordon Bell Prize in 2011.