スーパーコンピュータとプラズマ・核融合シミュレーションの発展とその将来　４．プラズマ・核融合シミュレーションの発展と将来への期待　４．３ プラズマ物理研究の観点から

摘要

Computer simulation research has greatly changed its feature due to the appearance of supercomputers and their recent revolutionary development. This paper briefly reviews how plasma simulation has developed under such a background in the information technology and what kind of problems will be attacked in the coming future, in regard to basic plasma physics research, including self-organization of an MHD plasma and collisionless reconnection. Especially, the importance of cross-hierarchy simulation is discussed.