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1. Mission and Basic Principles of the Earth SimulatorTo build a harmonious relationship between the Earth and human beings, the Earth Simulator Center will endeavor to

achieve the maximum benefit of the Earth Simulator's capabilities, and will pursue challenges in various areas of research and

development as follows:

Quantitative prediction and assessment of variations of the atmosphere, ocean and solid earth.

Production of reliable data to protect human lives and properties from natural disasters and environmental destruction.

Contribution to symbiotic relationship of human activities with nature.

Promotion of innovative and epoch-making simulation in any fields such as industry, bioscience, energy and so on.

Moreover, the four principles written below must be followed to achieve these objectives as specified in the “Basic

Guidelines for the Earth Simulator Center” by the Earth Simulator Advisory Committee.

Shall provide an open usage environment.

Shall disclose research results promptly.

Shall evaluate results and system operations.

Shall be used for peaceful purposes.

According to these principles, public project recruitment was held in June and December 2002 and 40 research projects

were selected for the Earth Simulator Research Projects in FY2002 (cf. 4. Selected Projects).

This Annual Report is a collection of the result using the Earth Simulator in these Research Projects.

Outline of the Earth Simulator Project

2. Managing System for the Earth Simulator ProjectThere are four important committees which work for the Earth Simulator management.

Earth Simulator

Advisory Committee

President

of JAMSTEC

Earth Simulator

Review Committee

Earth Simulator Center

Director-GeneralMission DefinitionCommittee

Selection Committee

Advisory Committee:

Decides and judges the basic guide-

line like the charter and other impor-

tant issues on the Earth Simulator.

Mission Definition Committee:

Draws up the strategy, annual pro-

gram, general framework of resource

allocation, guidelines of project selec-

tion rules, and internal review of the

Earth Simulator.

Selection Committee:

Decides the resource allocation for

each selected project, and judges and

adopts the research projects for the

Earth Simulator.

Review Committee:

Reviews progress of research projects.

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3. Earth Simulator Research Project3.1. Research Fields of the Research ProjectsThere are four research fields of the Earth Simulator Research Projects as follows:

Atmospheric and Oceanic Simulation

Solid Earth Simulation

Computer Science

Epoch-making Simulation

3.2. Resource AllocationBy the Mission Definition Committee, the resource's allocation of the Earth Simulator Research Projects in FY2002 was

decided in May 2002.

Ocean and Atmosphere

30-35%

Director General's Discretion

20-30%

Solid Earth

15-20%

Epoch-making Simulation

15%10%

Computer

Science

Title AffiliationName

Development of a nonhydrostatic icosahedral high-resolution

atmospheric general circulation model

Atmospheric Composition Change and Its Climate Impact

Studied by global and Regional Chemical Transport Models

Investigation of Asian Summer Monsoon System using

a Cloud Resolving Regional Climate Model

Refinement of Numerical Model and Technology of

Global and Regional Water Cycle

Eddy-resolving simulation of world ocean circulation using

the PFES Toward the sophisticated J-COPE project

Research on development of global climate model with remarkably

high resolution and climate model with cloud resolution

Research on the Global Warming Prediction by using a higher

resolution of atmosphere-ocean coupled model

Masaki Sato

Hajime Akimoto

Takao Yoshikane

Hiromasa Ueda

Takashi Kagimoto

Takayo Matsuo

Akimasa Sumi

FRSGC

FRSGC

FRSGC

Disaster Prevention Research

Institute, Kyoto University

FRSGC

Japanese Meteorological

Research Institute

Center for Climate System

Research, University of Tokyo

4. Selected Projects in FY20024.1. Atmospheric and Oceanic Simulation (17 projects)

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4.2. Solid Earth Simulation (8 projects)

Development of Highly Parallel Ocean General Circulation Model

using Cubic Grid System

Development of Integrated Earth System Model for Global Change

Prediction

Eddy-resolving simulation of the World Ocean Circulation by using

MOM3-based OGCM code optimized for the Earth Simulator

Development of high-resolution atmosphere-ocean coupled model

and global warming projections

Super-high-resolution climate simulations with an atmospheric

general circulation model

Research Development of 4-dimensional data assimilation system

using a coupled climate model and construction of reanalysis

datasets for initialization

Development of coupled ocean-atmosphere-Sea Ice model with

optimized computational performance on the Earth Simulator.

Parameterization of turbulent diffusivity in the deep ocean

IARC-FRSGC Ice-Ocean and Bio-Geochemical Modeling

Process Studies and Seasonal Prediction Experiment Using

Coupled General Circulation Model

Yukio Tanaka

Taro Matsuno

Hideharu Sasaki

Kouki Maruyama

Wataru Ofuchi

Toshiyuki Awaji

Keiko Takahashi

Toshiyuki Hibiya

Jia Wang

Toshio Yamagata

FRSGC

FRSGC


Central Research Institute of

Electric Power Industry


FRSGC


Graduate School of Science,

University of Tokyo

IARC-FRSGC

FRSGC


Simulation study on the generation and the distortion process of

the Earth's magnetic field in earth-like conditions

Development of Solid Earth Simulation Platform

Predictive Simulation for Crustal Activity in and around Japan

Numerical simulation of seismic wave propagation and strong

ground motions in 3-D heterogeneous media

Global elastic response simulation

Fluid-dynamical Modeling of Mantle Dynamics

Numerical simulation of the mantle convection and physical

properties of the Earth's interior

Simulation of Earthquake Generation Process in a Complex

System of Faults

Yozo Hamano

Hiroshi Okuda

Mitsuhiro Matsuura

Takashi Furumura

Seiji Tsuboi

Yoshio Fukao

Tomoyuki Nakakuki

Kazuro Hirahara

IFREE

Graduate School of Engineering,

University of Tokyo


University of Tokyo

Earthquake Research Institute,

University of Tokyo

IFREE

IFREE


Hiroshima University

Graduate School of Environmental

Studies, Nagoya University

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Numerical Simulation of Rocket Engine Internal Flows

Development of a visualization scheme for large-scale data on

the Earth Simulator

Performance Evaluation of Large-scale Parallel Simulation Codes

and Designing New Language Features on the HPF

(High Performance Fortran) Data-Parallel Programming Environment

Designing and implementation of parallel numerical computing

library for multi-node environment of the Earth Simulator

Hiroshi Miyajima

Yoshio Suzuki

Yasuo Okabe

Kenichi Itakura

National Space Development

Agency of Japan

Center for Promotion of Computational

Science and Engineering, JAERI

Academic Center for Computing

and Media Studies, Kyoto University


4.3. Computer Science (4 projects)


Large-Scale Simulations on Thermal-Hydraulics of Multi-Phase

Flows in Nuclear Reactors by a Direct Numerical Analysis Method

Large-scale simulation on the properties of carbon-nanotube

All-electron Calculation on Very Large-Sized Proteins by Density

Functional Method

Large-scale parallel fluid simulations for spallation type mercury

target adopted in the project of high-intensity proton accelerator.

Development of the next-generation computational solid mechanics

simulator for a virtual demonstration test

Study of the Standard Model of Elementary Particles on

the Lattice with the Earth Simulator

Large-scale simulation for a Tera Hz resonance superconductors

device

Geospace Environment Simulator

Direct Numerical Simulations of Fundamental Turbulent Flows

with the Largest Grid Numbers in the World and its Application

of Modelling for Engineering Turbulent Flows

First principle molecular dynamics simulation of solution

Research on structure formation of plasmas dominated by

multi-scale dynamics

FRSGC: Frontier Research System for Global ChangeIFREE: Institute for Frontier Research on Earth EvolutionIARC: International Arctic Research CenterJAERI: Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute

Kazuyuki Takase

Kazuo Minami

Fumitoshi Sato

Chuichi Arakawa

Ryuji Shioya

Akira Ukawa

Masashi Tachiki

Yoshiharu Omura

Chuichi Arakawa

Masaru Hirata

Yasuaki Kishimoto

JAERI

Research Organization for Information

Science & Technology

Institute of Industrial Science,

University of Tokyo



Graduate School of Engineering,

Kyushu University

Center for Computational Physics,

University of Tsukuba

National Institute for Material Science

Kyoto University



JAERI

JAERI

4.4. Epoch-making Simulation (11 projects)

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5. System Configuration of the Earth SimulatorThe Earth Simulator is a highly parallel vector supercomputer system of the distributed-memory type, and consisted of 640

processor nodes (PNs) connected by 640x640 single-stage crossbar switches. Each PN is a system with a shared memory, con-

sisting of 8 vector-type arithmetic processors (APs), a 16GB main memory system (MS), a remote access control unit (RCU),

and an I/O processor. The peak performance of each AP is 8Gflops. The ES as a whole thus consists of 5120 APs with 10 TB

of main memory and the theoretical performance of 40Tflops.

Specification of the Earth Simulator

Conceptual diagram of the Earth Simulator

Peak performance/AP

Peak performance/PN

Shared memory/PN

8Gflops

64Gflops

16GB

Total number of APs

Total number of PNs

Total peak performance

Total main memory

5120

640

40Tflops

10TB

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6. History and Event Calendar

Year 2002

Mar 6

Mar 11

Mar 15

Apr 18

Jun 5

Jun 20

Jun 21 - 30

Jul 10

Jul 16

Jul 30 - Aug 1

Aug 27 & 29

Sept 28

Oct 23

Nov 1 - 30

Nov 22

Dec 13

Dec 17 - 19

Dec 24

1st Orientation for users

2nd Orientation for users

Opening Ceremony at the Earth Simulator Center

35.86 Tflops at Linpack test, registered as no.1 of TOP500

1st meeting of Mission Definition Committee

TOP500 Award at Heidelberg

Public project recruitment of FY2002

1st Selection Committee

Start of the Authorized research project

Orientation and Seminar for Users (Vectorization/Parallelization)

Seminar for Users (MPI/HPF)

1st Earth Simulator Center Symposium

"Harmonious Relationship between the Earth and Mankind"

2nd Meeting of Mission Definition Committee

Additional Public project recruitment of FY2002

Gordon Bell Award at SC2002 in US;

. The Gordon Bell Award for Peak Performance

. The Gordon Bell Award for Language (special category)

. Three additional papers earned Gordon Bell Awards for special accomplishment

2nd Selection Committee

Orientation and Seminar for Users (Vectorization/Parallelization/MPI/HPF)

Start of the additional authorized research project

Year 2003

Feb 1 & 2

Feb 28

Mar 5

Annual Meeting for research projects in FY2002

2nd Advisory Committee

3rd Mission Definition Committee

Documents

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