Nationwide joint-use institutes

Center for Computational Sciences: The center carries out research in natural, life, and environmental sciences using large-scale numerical simulations and data analyses. To advance these researches, the center carries out R&D in high performance computing and networking systems, and applications of novel information technologies. The center was formerly the Center for Computational Physics founded in April 1996; it has been reorganized and expanded with the addition of research areas for materials and life sciences, earth and bio environmental sciences, and computational informatics. The center is an inter-university facility open to researchers throughout Japan.

Plasma Research Center: The center carries out advanced research and education in plasma physics and its applications (especially, improvement of plasma confinement and performance with electric potential and electric field) and development of related facilities. It promotes mutual research cooperation of plasma fusion science with universities and research institutes in Japan and abroad.