Prof. Genki Yagawa and Dr. Tadashi Watanabe, world-class researcher and architect in HPC, are awarded the Japan Academy Prize in FY2009

The Japan Academy (Nippon Gakushi-in) was established on 15 January 1879 in the Meiji Period for the purpose of advancing education and science in Japan. Now it is operated under the auspices of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology,

The Japan Academy announced 10 awardees of the Japan Academy Prize in FY2009 last week, and Prof. Genki Yagawa and Dr. Tadashi Watanabe, world-class researcher and architect in HPC are awarded it.

Dr. Genki Yagawa, professor emeritus, University of Tokyo, executive member of Science Council of Japan, and Director of Center for Computational Mechanics Research, Toyo University is well-known in nuclear engineering research activities, and a leader of multi-scale, multi-physics phenomena’s simulation project of Japan recently.

Dr. Tadashi Watanabe, Project Leader of Next Generation Supercomputer R&D Center, RIKEN is a world-class supercomputer architect who received Cray award and so on.

It must be a landmark event that the Japan Academy awards researchers in the third mode of sciences (HPC) besides those of rich and traditional experimental and theoretical sciences.