About the Research Center
At the Advanced Fluid Information Research Center (AFI Research Center), the Integrated Supercomputation System is employed in diverse applications such as supercomputing in fluid science, measurement-integrated research for the simulation and experiment, and advanced visualization for fluid information. In addition, international symposiums are conducted by AFI Research Center and the center's database is used to spread the research results. From the academic and social viewpoints, the Integrated Supercomputation System plays a pivotal role in research projects, which are screened and evaluated, for achieving high research goals. The Institute of Fluid Science’ s mission is to make contributions, such as integrating the fundamental study of fluid science with advanced academic fields and focusing on the applications of fluid science in the field of science and technology, toward the promotion of AFI Research Center as a world-class research center.
History
| Dec. | 1990 | Cray Y-MP8/8128 becomes operational |
| Oct. | 1994 | Cray C916/161024 becomes operational |
| Sep. | 1999 | Advanced Fluid Information Research Center was founded |
| Nov. | 1999 | SGI Origin 2000, NEC SX-5/16A become operational |
| Nov. | 2005 | SGI Altix 3700, NEC SX-8 become operational |
| May | 2011 | SGI Altix UV1000, NEC SX-9 become operational |
| May | 2014 | SGI UV2000 is added to the above |
| Aug. | 2018 | System based on Fujitsu Server PRIMERGY becomes operational |
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Institute of Fluid Science,
Tohoku University
Director
Kaoru Maruta
The AFI Research Center established the “Integrated Supercomputation System (AFI-NITY)” with distributed / shared memory parallel computers, FUJITSU PRIMERGY CX2550M4 in August 2018. In order to lead the way in making fluid science technologies the basis of sustainable development in human society in harmony with the global environment, we carry out research on “Fluid Information,” not only for fluid flow but also for heat, energy, electromagnetic and information flow, from macroscopic and microscopic points of view. We aim to develop control mechanisms and design methods for flows for sustainable development in human society through clarification of unknown complex fluid phenomena by constructing an “Integrated Supercomputing Method” that unifies experiments and computations, by data mining of massive fluid information obtained with large-scale numerical computations and by analyzing through advanced visualization using a three-dimensional visualization server.
The AFI Research Center, as the international hub for fluid information research, has organized an international symposium on advanced fluid information every year since 2001, and actively promotes collaborative research projects with domestic and overseas universities and enterprises.
