History
| 2002 | ||
| Mar. 6 | 1st Orientation for users | |
| Mar. 11 | 2nd Orientation for users | |
| Mar. 15 | Opening Ceremony at the Earth Simulator Center | |
| Apr. 18 | 35.86 Tflops at Linpack test, registered as no.1 of TOP500 | |
| Jun. 5 | 1st meeting of Mission Definition Committee | |
| Jun. 20 | TOP500 Award at Heidelberg | |
| Jun. 21-30 | Public project recruitment of FY2002 | |
| Jul. 10 | 1st Selection Committee | |
| Jul. 16 | Start of the Authorized project | |
| Jul. 30 - Aug. 1 | Orientation and Seminar for Users (Vectorization/Parallelization) | |
| Aug. 27 & 29 | Seminar for Users (MPI/HPF) | |
| Sep. 28 | 1st Earth Simulator Center Symposium Harmonious Relationship between the Earth and Mankind | |
| Oct. 23 | 2nd Meeting of Mission Definition Committee | |
| Nov. 1 - 30 | Additional Public project recruitment of FY2002 | |
| Nov. 20 | TOP500 Award | |
| Nov. 22 | Gordon Bell Award at SC2002 in US; - The Gordon Bell Award for Peak Performance - The Gordon Bell Award for Language (special category) - Three additional papers earned Gordon Bell Awards for special accomplishment | |
| Dec. 13 | 2nd Selection Committee | |
| Dec. 17 - 19 | Orientation and Seminar for Users (Vectorization/Parallelization/MPI/HPF) | |
| Dec. 24 | Start of the additional authorized project | |
| Dec. | TIME 42 Inventions 2002 | |
| 2003 | ||
| Feb. 1 & 2 | Annual Meeting for research projects in FY2002 | |
| Feb. 28 | 3rd Advisory Committee | |
| Mar. 5 | 3rd Mission Definition Committee | |
| Mar. 12-30 | Public project recruitment of FY2003 | |
| Apr. 10 | 3rd Selection Committee | |
| Apr. 19 | Open House of Yokohama Institute for Earth Sciences | |
| Jun. 3 | 2003 Computerworld Honors 21st-Century Achievement Awards in the Environment, Energy & Agriculture category | |
| Jun. 19 | 2nd Earth Simulator Center Symposium A message from another Earth | |
| Jun. 25 | TOP500 Award at Heidelberg | |
| Aug. 21 | 4th Mission Definition Committee | |
| Nov. 20 | TOP500 Award | |
| Nov. 20 | Gordon Bell Award at SC2003 in US; - A 14.6 billion degrees of freedom, 5 teraflops, 2.5 terabyte earthquake simulation on the Earth Simulator | |
| 2004 | ||
| Jan. 10 - 11 | Annual Meeting for research projects in FY2003 | |
| Jan. 21 | 4th Advisory Committee | |
| Jan. 22 | 5th meeting of Mission Definition Committee | |
| Feb. 2 - 29 | Public project recruitment of FY2004 | |
| Mar. 11 | 4th Selection Committee | |
| Mar. 19 | Tokyo Creation Award 2003 | |
| Apr. 1 | Start of the additional authorized project | |
| Apr. 17 | Open House of Yokohama Institute for Earth Sciences | |
| May 20 | IPSJ Industrial Achievement Award | |
| Jun. 16 | A JAMA-JAMSTEC Joint Research Project Employing the Earth Simulator | |
| Jun. 21 | TOP500 Award at Heidelberg | |
| Sep. 15 | 1st Mission Definition Committee | |
| Oct. 13 | 3rd Earth Simulator Center Symposium at Iino Hall (Tokyo). "Harmonious Relationship between the Earth and Human Being - The Earth is changing this way" | |
| Oct. 25 | ESC made a contract with Institute of Economic Research of Hitotsubashi University for collaborative research. | |
| Nov. 17 | Earth Simulator is awarded as the world's 3rd fastest super computer, at TOP 500 Award | |
| Nov. 17 | Winning Gordon Bell Award at SC2004 conference in U.S; - A 15.2 TFlops Simulation of Geodynamo on the Earth Simulator | |
| Nov. 29 | Mid-term Evaluating Committee starts evaluating the research activities associated with Earth Simulator | |
| 2005 | ||
| Jan. 7 - 8 | Annual Meeting for research projects in FY2004 | |
| Jan. 13 | 2nd Mission Definition Committee | |
| Jan. 19 | Initiation of international collaborative research with HCCPR (Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research) | |
| Feb. 2 - 28 | Public project recruitment of FY2005 | |
| Mar. 10 | 5th Selection Committee | |
| May 16 | 2nd Mission definition committee | |
| Jul. 14 | 4th Earth Simulator Center symposium | |
| Sep. 22 | 4th Mission definition committee | |
| 2006 | ||
| Jan. 6 - 7 | Annual meeting for research projects in FY2005. | |
| Jan. 8 | 5th Mission definition committee | |
| Jan. 20 - Feb. 20 | Public project recruitment of FY2006 | |
| Mar. 8 | 6th Selection committee | |
| Apr. 15 | Open house of Yokohama Institute for Earth Sciences | |
| Sep. 22 | 5th Earth Simulator Center symposium | |
| 2007 | ||
| Jan. 26 - 27 | Annual meeting for research projects in FY2006. | |
| Jan. 28 | 6th Mission definition committee | |
| Feb. 1 | Conclusion of the ESC/Meraka Institute Collaborative Research Agreement - Cooperation for Simulation Study and Human Capital Development - | |
| Feb. 1 - 28 | Public project recruitment of FY2007 | |
| Mar. 5 | 7th Selection Committee | |
| Apr. 16 | 7th Mission Definition committee | |
| Sep. 20 | Open House of Yokohama Institute for Earth Sciences | |
| Oct. 31 | 6nd Earth Simulator Center Symposium | |
| 2008 | ||
| Jan. 11 - Jan. 12 | Annual Meeting for research projects in FY2007 | |
| Jan. 13 | 8th Mission Definition Committee | |
| Feb. 1 - 22 | Public project recruitment of FY2008 | |
| Mar. 1 | 8th Selection Committee | |
| Mar. 13 | Gulf Stream's influence to the troposphere has been revalved, research results was on the "Nature" | |
| Aug. 25 - 26 | "OFES International Workshop" in Yokohama. | |
| Aug. 28 | New Generating Mechanism of Geomagnetic Field Found in the Highest-resolution Simulations Using Earth Simulator, research results was on the "Nature" | |
| Sep. 20 | Open House of Yokohama Institute for Earth Sciences | |
| Oct. 1 | Replacement for the new ES system has started | |
| Dec. 9 - 10 | Annual Meeting for research projects in FY2008 | |
| 2009 | ||
| Feb. 9 - 27 | Public project recruitment of FY2009 | |
| Mar. 1 | Operation of the new ES system has started | |
| Mar. 10 | Selection Committee | |
| Apr. 1 | Organizational change | |
| Jun. 4 | New ES achieved 1st prize in LINPACK benchmark test in Japan. |