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We issued a press release about new OCTOPUS, short for “Osaka university Compute and sTOrage Platform Urging open Science”
Our second-generation OCTOPUS offers approximately 1.5 times the performance of the first-generation OCTOPUS and is built with a new provenance management system named SCUP-HPC ((System for Constructing and Utilizing Provenance on High-Performance Computing System)
This SCUP-HPC allows researchers to record, manage and visualize computational provenance which contains the information on how data is accessed by what kind of program and what kind of data is genetated. As the result, a new scientific computing concept named “Scientific Computing Unifying Provenance – High Performance Computing” is realized on supercomputing system and is expected to improve researchers’ and scientists’ productivity of academic research using computer simulation and AI learning.
Press Release Document [PDF]
OCTOPUS:
SCUP-HPC:
About OCTOPUS [web page]
About SCUP-HPC[Paper]
Yuta Namiki, Takeo Hosomi, Hideyuki Tanushi, Akihiro Yamashita, Susumu Date, “SCUP-HPC: System for Constructing and Utilizing Provenance on High-Performance Computing Systems”, IEEE Access, vol. 13, pp. 141090-141107, 2025. [DOI:10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3597361]