The earth simulator

1 On the Earth Simulator Initiative and the Machine’s Architecture(Background;Hardware development and implementation;Programming environment,programming model,achieved performance and operation of ES) 2 The Earth Simulator—Challenge to Tera‐Scale Flow Dynamics in Earth Sciences High Resolution Oceanic Simulations(Dynamical system as a paradigm of the classical mechanics and on the governing system of equations;Characteristics of the oceanic and atmospheric dynamics;On discretization of the governing equations ほか) 3. Simulation Studies of Solid Earth Dynamics on the Earth Simulator—Theoretical Backgrounds,Tools and Outcrops(Fluid dynamical treatments of convective motions in the mantle and outer core;New simulation tools for solid earth dynamics;Dynamic nature of convection in the solid earth revealed by numerical simulations ほか)