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OCTOPUS Supercomputer Launched by Osaka University

The University of Osaka’s D3 Center has begun trial operations of OCTOPUS, a new high-performance computing and data platform built by NEC to promote open science, with full-scale operations set for December. OCTOPUS delivers 2.293 petaflops of theoretical performance through 140 NEC LX201Ein-1 computing nodes and offers about 1.5 times the performance of the previous system. A key innovation is the integration of SCUP-HPC, a provenance management technology co-developed by the D3 Center and NEC. SCUP-HPC automatically tracks, records, and visualizes data usage and generation across supercomputers without affecting performance, addressing long-standing challenges of reproducibility, transparency, and efficiency in data-intensive research. Researchers will be able to include computation history IDs from OCTOPUS in their published papers, enabling verification of results and improving research integrity. Also Read: HPE Enhances Hybrid Cloud…