Presenter

Taisuke Boku is a researcher in HPC system architecture, system software, and performance tuning and evaluation on various scientific applications. From 2019-2024 he was director of the Center for Computational Sciences at the University of Tsukuba. He played a central role in the development of original supercomputers for the center, including CP-PACS (ranked number one in the TOP500 in 1996), FIRST, PACS-CS, HA-PACS, and the Cygnus and Pegasus systems—the representative supercomputers in Japan.

Taisuke was president of the High Performance Computing Infrastructure Consortium in Japan (2020-2022), and is currently the vice president (2024-2026). He was a member of the system architecture working group for the development of the Fugaku supercomputer. He was a program director of the Feasibility Study on Next-Generation Supercomputing in Japan (Post-Fugaku), and was also a program director of the Program for Promoting Research on the Supercomputer Fugaku. He received the ACM Gordon Bell Prize in 2011.