The 1st ISM-ZIB-IMI Joint Workshop on Optimization and Data-intensive High Performance Computing took place in Tokyo on January 19-22. Together with representatives from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), researchers from the Japanese companies Fujitsi, Hitachi, NTT, Preferred Networks, and Toshiba, from Osaka Prefecture, and from several academic insitutions, including the Japanese Institute of Statistical Mathematics...Read More