Japan, Sept. 12 -- The University of Osaka D3 Center will begin trial operations of the "Osaka University Compute and sTOrage Platform Urging open Science" (OCTOPUS), a computational and data platform promoting open science built by NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701), starting this September, with full-scale operations commencing in December.OCTOPUS is a supercomputer with a theoretical computational performance of 2.293 petaflops, centered around 140 computing nodes of the "NEC LX201Ein-1". Compared to the previous system, it not only offers approximately 1.5 times the performance, but also incorporates a provenance management function, which automatically records and manages processes such as data generation, jointly developed by both parti...