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In 2006, we started a grand challenge project called ISLiM for K computer to demonstrate its performance. The ISLiM stands for Integrated Simulation of Living Matter to reproduce life phenomena on a supercomputer for understanding them and developing new medicine or new treatments. We have 6 research teams: Molecular scale team, cell scale team, organ and body scale team, data analysis fusion team, brain and neural system team and HPC team. We are developing a high performance software package for life science for K computer which contains 31 application software. Currently two third of them are running on K computer and several ones shows more than 30 percent of theoretical peak performance of K computer.
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Himeno, R. (2013). Grand Challenge in Life Science on K Computer. In: Daydé, M., Marques, O., Nakajima, K. (eds) High Performance Computing for Computational Science - VECPAR 2012. VECPAR 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7851. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38718-0_4
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