Science Information NETwork, SINET, is an information and communication network built and operated by the National Institute of Informatics (NII) as scientific information infrastructure for universities and research institutions throughout Japan.

SINET6 has been in full-scale operation since April 2022.

Recent Use Cases

  • 2024/05/02 Data Collection Using Mobile SINET for Emergency Risk Assessments of Buildings After Earthquakes

    The Earthquake Research Institute, the University of Tokyo is using the Mobile SINET Demonstration Experiment

  • 2024/02/14 Collecting Weather Information in the “Zekkei Project” Data-Driven Tourism Project Using SINET6

    In April 2022, Kitami Institute of Technology merged its academic corporation with two universities, Obihiro U

  • スーパコンピュータ「富岳」(取材時撮影)
    2021/06/15 The Role of SINET in the Management and Operation of the Supercomputer Fugaku and the HPCI Shared Storage System

    RIKEN Center for Computational Science (hereinafter “R-CCS”) manages and operates the world’s fastest supercom