Renamed as Materials Information Science Department
Mar. 1993
Decided to introduce Supercomputer in IMR Supercomputer building started construction
Mar. 1994
Completion of supercomputer building The supercomputing system (Supercomputer: HITACHI S-3800, Front end: IBM9121/511, DEC/VAX7000 and Kubota TITAN2) began to operate
May. 1995
Exhibition ceremony of supercomputer building
Aug. 1996
Merger of Materials Information Science Department and Public Relations office reorganized into Information and Public Relations Office
Oct. 2000
Information and Public Relations Office was reorganized into four organizations, Center for Computational Materials Science, Integrated Network Operation Room, Public Relations Office, and Review Office
Feb. 2001
Replacement of supercomputing system The supercomputing system (Supercomputer: HITACHI SR8000 model G1, File server: IBM RS/6000 S80, Application server A: COMPAQ GS320, Application server B: SGI Onyx3400) began to operate
Apr. 2006
Replacement of supercomputing system The supercomputing system (Supercomputer: HITACHI SR11000 model K2, Application server A: NIWSGene/S Trubo, Application server B: HP ProLiant BL35p, Application server C: SGI Altix450, File/Backup
server: IBM System p5 520) began to operate
Apr. 2011
Replacement of supercomputing system The supercomputing system (Supercomputer: HITACHI SR16000 model M1, Application server: BladeCenter HS22) began to operate
Aug. 2018
Replacement of supercomputing system The supercomputing system (Supercomputer: Cray XC50-LC, Cray CS-Storm, Parallel computing/Informatics server: HPE DL380 Gen10) began to operate
