Research project selected for the JST FOREST Program
Our research project, “ReFlex: A Reconfigurable Disaggregated Cloud Architecture” (PI: Atsushi Koshiba), has been selected for the FY2026 Fusion Oriented REsearch for disruptive Science and Technology (FOREST) Program of the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST).
This year, 243 out of 2,519 proposals were selected, an acceptance rate of about 9.6% (JST press release No. 1882, in Japanese). Since the program started in FY2020, 1,763 projects have been selected nationwide, including this year’s, and this is the seventh FOREST project ever awarded to Tokyo University of Science.
Project overview
This project creates a “hardware OS”: an operating system, traditionally implemented in software, redesigned as electronic circuits. The hardware OS combines CPU-independent generality with high-speed operation, and can centrally manage the thousands to tens of thousands of machines in a datacenter. By using computing resources such as GPUs at low cost and high efficiency, we aim to build a next-generation cloud infrastructure that supports diverse services, including AI.
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