Wed. Apr 30, 2014 4:15 PM - 5:00 PM 211 (2F)

Convener:*Ryota Hino(International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University), Yoshimori Honkura(Volcanic Fluid Research Center, Tokyo Institute of Technology), Yoshiyuki Kaneda(Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology), Taro Arikawa(Port and Airport Research Institute), Tsuyoshi Ichimura(Earthquake Research Institute,The University of Tokyo), Masaru Todoriki(Center for Integrated Disaster Information Research / Earthquake Research Institute, The University of Tokyo), Takane Hori(Earthquake and Tsunami Research Project for Disaster Prevention, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology), Chair:Hiromichi Nagao(Earthquake Research Institute, The University of Tokyo)

In Japan, high performance computing (HPC) had been driven by computer science community (HPC developer). However, recently, computational science community (HPC user) has been expected to contribute to the planning and development of the next generation HPC showing the scientific and/or social issues to be solved for the next 10-20 years using HPC. In various filed of science using HPC, scientists has started to discuss scientific and/or social issues to be solved in each field. Hence, in this session, we aim to examine such issues in solid Earth science, which HPC can contribute to solve. For social issues, we will focus on earthquake and tsunami disaster mitigation. For scientific issues, we would like to discuss construction of the next generation of solid Earth model based on the big data of seismic waves and crustal deformation obtained by high-density observation networks. We will invite and welcome not only computational scientists in solid Earth but also specialists on disaster mitigation and observational/theoretical scientists on solid Earth to discuss deeply on the roles of HPC.