OCTOPUS
OCTOPUS（Osaka university Compute & sTOrage Platform Urging open Science）is a next-generation computing and storage infrastructure. This system is consist of general-purpose CPU nodes (NEC LX201 Ein-1: 140 nodes) equipped with two 6th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Granite Rapids) and large-capacity storage (effective capacity: 3.58PB).
System Configuration
| Total computing performance | 2.293 PFLOPS | ||
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| Node Configuration | General-purpose CPU Node Group 140 Nodes |
Computing performace per node: 16.384 TFLOPS Processor: Intel Xeon 6980P (Granite Rapids / 2.0GHz 128 cores) ×2 Main Memory: 768 GB |
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| Storage | DDN EXAScaler (Lustre) | HDD: 3.58 PB | |
| Interconnect | InfiniBand NDR200 (200 Gbps) | ||
*The floating-point precision used to derive the theoretical computing performance is double precision (FP64).
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News
- We will begin paid services starting in December 2025. For details, please refer to this page.
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September 2025: [press release] Operation Start of new OCTOPUS by NEC at D3 Center at University of Osaka.
Press Release -
August 2025: The free trial of the next-generation computing and storage platform OCTOPUS has started.
OCTOPUS Free Trial -
July 2025: The OCTOPUS Rack Design Contest was held.
(Applications are now closed. Thank you very much for the many submissions.)
OCTOPUS Rack Design Contest
