Expected Outcome: Priority Issues and Exploratory Challenges

Social and scientific priority issues to be tackled by using post-K computer

1. Priority Issues

Category	Priority issues	Organizations
Achievement of a society that provides health and longevity	Innovative drug discovery infrastructure through functional control of biomolecular systems	RIKEN Quantitative Biology Center and 6 other institutions
	Integrated computational life science to support personalized and preventive medicine	The Institute of Medical Science, the University of Tokyo and 4 other institutions
Disaster prevention and global climate problems	Development of integrated simulation systems for hazards and disasters induced by earthquakes and tsunamis	Earthquake Research Institute, the University of Tokyo and 4 other institutions
	Advancement of meteorological and global environmental predictions utilizing observational “Big Data”	Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) and other 5 institutions
Energy problems	Development of new fundamental technologies for high-efficiency energy creation, conversion/storage and use	Institute for Molecular Science, National Institute of Natural Sciences and 8 other institutions
	Accelerated development of innovative clean energy systems	School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo and 11 other institutions
Enhancement of industrial competitiveness	Creation of new functional devices and high-performance materials to support next-generation industries（CDMSI）	The Institute for Solid State Physics, the University of Tokyo and 9 other institutions
	Development of innovative design and production processes that lead the way for the manufacturing industry in the near future	Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo and 7 other institutions
Development of basic science	Elucidation of the fundamental laws and evolution of the universe	Center for Computational Sciences, University of Tsukuba and 10 other institutions

2. Exploratory Challenges