One of Japan’s important educational institutions, Kyoto University lost 77 TB (approximately 77000 GB) of data due to a technical failure in its supercomputers. In an official announcement, the university shared the information that there was a file system failure originating from the US technology giant Hewlett-Packard (HP), the manufacturer of the supercomputer system. HP made a statement on the subject and shared a report about the cause of the problem.
Supercomputer deleted 34 million files of university
In a statement on the Kyoto University website, he stated that the data loss in question affected the files recorded from December 3rd. He also explained that the malfunction was caused by the backup program that was running on the supercomputer system produced by ‘Hewlett-Packard Japan’ between 14-16 December.
Noting that 34 million files in the file system (/LARGE0) were accidentally deleted, the university administration said, “We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience caused. We will continue to work to ensure that such a situation does not happen again in the future. Thank you for your understanding. ” he stated.
HP has apologized
Hewlett-Packard (HP) has sent a report of data loss to Kyoto University. He explained that the data loss occurred as a result of a technical malfunction in the Luster file system of the supercomputer. Stating that the error was caused by them, the company said, “We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience you experienced,” and said:
We believe that file loss is 100 percent our responsibility. We also defend the right to compensation of users who have lost their files. You can rest assured that we will do our best to remedy this situation. In the future, we will fully verify the programs running on the system and examine the extent of their impact. We will make improvements so that similar malfunctions do not occur.
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