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 News
- 2024/04/05 SINET6 upgraded Japan-Amsterdam lines to 400Gbps (April 1, 2024)
In April 2024, we upgraded Japan-Amsterdam lines from 100Gbps to 400Gbps and started to operate them.New Japan […]
- 2022/04/01 SINET6 commenced operation (April 1, 2022)
SINET6 began operations in April 2022, and it replaces the previous SINET5. SINET6 aims to apply 400GE nationw […]
Recent Use Cases
2024/05/02 Data Collection Using Mobile SINET for Emergency Risk Assessments of Buildings After EarthquakesThe 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 SINET6In April 2022, Kitami Institute of Technology merged its academic corporation with two universities, Obihiro U
2021/06/15 The Role of SINET in the Management and Operation of the Supercomputer Fugaku and the HPCI Shared Storage SystemRIKEN Center for Computational Science (hereinafter “R-CCS”) manages and operates the world’s fastest supercom
