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AOBA: The Most Powerful Vector Supercomputer in the World

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The Innovative High-Performance Computing Infrastructure (HPCI) connects major supercomputers of universities and research institutions in Japan. Today, there is a diversity of High-Performance Computing (HPC) system architectures.

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Acknowledgements

This work is partially supported by MEXT Next Generation High-Performance Computing Infrastructures and Applications R &D Program “R &D of a Quantum-Annealing-Assisted Next Generation HPC Infrastructure and its Applications,” and JSPS KAKENHI Grant Numbers JP20H00593, JP21H03449, and JP22K19764.

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  1. Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

    Hiroyuki Takizawa, Keichi Takahashi, Yoichi Shimomura, Kenji Oizumi, Satoshi Ono, Takeshi Yamashita & Atsuko Saito

  2. Tokyo Denki University, Tokyo, Japan

    Ryusuke Egawa

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  1. High Performance Computing Center, University of Stuttgart, HLRS, Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

    Michael M. Resch

  2. High Performance Computing Center, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

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  3. Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Aoba-ku, Japan

    Hiroaki Kobayashi

  4. Cyberscience Center, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

    Hiroyuki Takizawa

  5. Europe GmbH, NEC High Performance Computing, Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

    Wolfgang Bez

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Takizawa, H. et al. (2024). AOBA: The Most Powerful Vector Supercomputer in the World. In: Resch, M.M., Gebert, J., Kobayashi, H., Takizawa, H., Bez, W. (eds) Sustained Simulation Performance 2022. WSSP WSSP 2022 2022. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41073-4_6

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