OCTOPUS

OCTOPUS will be retired on March 31, 2024. Please be aware of and ready for the retirement.
The next system is under procurement and will be installed in FY2025. Please consider using SQUID for FY2024.

 
OCTOPUS (Osaka university Cybermedia cenTer Over-Petascale Universal Supercomputer) is a cluster system starts its operation in December 2017. This system is composed of different types of 4 clusters, General purpose CPU nodes, GPU nodes, Xeon Phi nodes and Large-scale shared-memory nodes, total 319 nodes.

System Configuration

Theoretical Computing Speed 1.463 PFLOPS
Compute Node General purpose CPU nodes
236 nodes (471.24 TFLOPS)
CPU : Intel Xeon Gold 6126 (Skylake / 2.6 GHz 12 cores) 2 CPUs
Memory : 192GB
GPU nodes
37 nodes (858.28 TFLOPS)
CPU : Intel Xeon Gold 6126 (Skylake / 2.6 GHz 12 cores) 2 CPUs
GPU : NVIDIA Tesla P100 (NV-Link) 4 units
Memory : 192GB
Xeon Phi nodes
44 nodes (117.14 TFLOPS)
CPU : Intel Xeon Phi 7210 (Knights Landing / 1.3 GHz 64 cores) 1 CPU
Memory : 192GB
Large-scale shared-memory nodes
2 nodes (16.38 TFLOPS)
CPU : Intel Xeon Platinum 8153 (Skylake / 2.0 GHz 16 cores) 8 CPUs
Memory : 6TB
Interconnect InfiniBand EDR (100 Gbps)
Stroage DDN EXAScaler (Lustre / 3.1 PB)

* This is an information on July 21, 2017. Therefore, there may a bit of a discrepancy about performance values. Thank you for your understanding.
 

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How to use OCTOPUS

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How to use OCTOPUS
 

Technical material

Please see following page:
ペタフロップス級ハイブリッド型スーパーコンピュータ OCTOPUS : Osaka university Cybermedia cenTer Over-Petascale Universal Supercomputer ~サイバーメディアセンターのスーパーコンピューティング事業の再生と躍進にむけて~ [DOI: 10.18910/70826]

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