The goals of this facility are to promote Japanese and French researchers through joint endevours; to publicize their results; to serve as a venue for training and development of young researchers; and to strengthen ties among those pursuing informatics research domestically and internationally. The facility will initially conduct research in five areas: next-generation networking, grid technology and high-performance computing (HPC), computer security, imaging and multimedia, and quantum computing. It will be jointly administered by NII in Japan and UPMC in France.
