Satoshi Matsuoka

Lead developer of the TSUBAME series of supercomputers — which included the 4th fastest in the world on the Top500 — Matsuoka has served as a Full Professor at the Global Scientific Information and Computing Center of Tokyo Institute of Technology (GSIC). From 2001 he served as the lead developer of the Institute's TSUBAME series, which had a peak of 2,288 Tflops and in June 2011 ranked 5th in the world. The system was developed in collaboration with NEC and HP, and had 1,400 nodes using both HP Proliant and NVIDIA Tesla processors. Japan's leading proponent for using accelerator technology to provide cutting-edge computational performance, Matsuoka is recognized for his work pushing the boundaries of high-performance computing.

In addition, Matsuoka led the development of the TSUBAME-KFC, which became #1 in the world for both Green500 and Green Graph 500 in November 2013. He also co-led the Japanese national grid project NAREGI from 2003 to 2007, and led several government projects, such as the MEXT Green Supercomputing and JSPS Billion-Scale Supercomputer Resilience, as well as the MEXT/JST Feasibility study for Exascale. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Tokyo in 1993.

Matsuoka has chaired many ACM/IEEE conferences, including Technical Papers at SC'09, Community at SC'11, and the overall Program at SC'13. He is a fellow of the ACM and European ISC. Matsuoka is the recipient of many awards including: in 1995 he received the IEEE Visual Languages Symposium Best Paper Award; the JSPS Prize from the Japan Society for Promotion of Science in 2006, awarded by his Highness Prince Akishinomiya; the ACM Gordon Bell Prize for 2011; and the Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in 2012. In 2014 he received the Sidney Fernbach Award, "For his work on software systems for high-performance computing on advanced infrastructural platforms, large-scale supercomputers, and heterogeneous GPU/CPU supercomputers."