World’s Largest Supercomputer Offered to Digital Earth

A captivating view of the world’s largest supercomputer, the Earth Simulator, located just outside of Tokyo, Japan, was presented to an international gathering of the Digital Earth Summit on Sustainability. Dr. Tetsuya Sato, director of the Earth Simulator, demonstrated the various climate and weather modelling capacities of the world’s largest computer and its ability to provide visualized perspectives of complex Earth system processes (http://www.es.jamstec.go.jp/esc/eng/). As if this wasn’t enough for the Auckland gathering, Dr. Sato made the offer to host whatever computation needs Digital Earth may have on the Japanese cybernetic leviathan. To this effort, Dr. Sato has agreed to co-lead with the US supercomputer network to provide the cyber backbone for the Digital Earth enterprise’s efforts. The unveiling of this incredibly generous offer will begin with focused communication for Digital Auckland and Digital New Zealand leading to a new understanding of our framework resources at the San Francisco gathering.