Ken'ichi Miura

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Ken'ichi Miura ( Japanese 三浦 謙 一 , Miura Ken'ichi ; * 1949 ) is a Japanese computer engineer.

Career

Miura studied physics at the University of Tokyo with a bachelor's degree in 1968 and computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a master's degree in 1971 and a doctorate in 1973. At the university, he was involved in the Illiac IV project. In 1973 he went to Fujitsu to develop high-performance computers and mainframe computers as well as digital signal processors for radio astronomy. From 1992 to 1996 he was Vice President and Head of the Supercomputer Group of Fujitsu America Inc. in San José . In 1997 he became senior scientist in the High Performance Computing department at Fujitsu and in 2002 a fellow at Fujitsu Laboratories.

In 2003 he went to the Japanese National Institute for Computer Science and was project manager of the national grid computing project (NAREGI) from 2003 to 2008. He then headed the Resource Linkage for e-Science (RENKEI) project.

Miura deals with supercomputer architecture, grid computing , numerical algorithms for vector and parallel computers , pseudo-random number generators for Monte Carlo simulations and with non-linear dynamics . In 2009 he received the Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award . He is a member of the Engineering Academy of Japan.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ken'ichi Miura: 次世代 研究 環境 を 切 り 開 く NAREGI サ イ エ ン ス グ リ ッ ド . (PDF; 474 kB) 国立 情報 学 研究所 リ サ ー チ グ リ ッ ド 研究 開 発 セ ン タ ー , October 3, 2007, accessed on March 28, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Miura, Ken'ichi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 三浦 謙 一 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese computer scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1949