Presenter

Dr. Makoto Taiji is a Deputy Director of RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research and Team Leader of Laboratory for Computational Molecular Design in the center. He received Ph. D. in physics from Univ. Tokyo in 1992. His research interests cover computer science and computational science, especially computational biology. He is one of the pioneers in the special-purpose computers and heterogeneous computing for scientific simulations. He developed one of the first FPGA-based reconfigurable accelerator for Monte Carlo simulations of Ising spin systems. In 2006 he developed “MDGRAPE-3”, a PetaFLOPS-scale special-purpose computer for molecular dynamics simulation. He was awarded three Gordon Bell Prizes in 1995, 2006 and 2009. Recently he developed the special-purpose computer for molecular dynamics simulations, “MDGRAPE-4A”.