Oh lawd…. imagine being that guy.



https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/new...-backup-error/



The Kyoto University in Japan has lost about 77TB of research data due to an error in the backup system of its Hewlett-Packard supercomputer.

The incident occurred between December 14 and 16, 2021, and resulted in 34 million files from 14 research groups being wiped from the system and the backup file.

After investigating to determine the impact of the loss, the university concluded that the work of four of the affected groups could no longer be restored.

All affected users have been individually notified of the incident via email, but no details were published on the type of work that was lost.

At the moment, the backup process has been stopped. To prevent data loss from happening again, the university has scraped the backup system and plans to apply improvements and re-introduce it in January 2022.

The plan is to also keep incremental backups - which cover files that have been changed since the last backup happened - in addition to full backup mirrors.


While the details of the type of data that was lost weren't revealed to the public, supercomputer research costs several hundreds of USD per hour, so this incident must have caused distress to the affected groups.

The Kyoto University is considered one of Japan's most important research institutions and enjoys the second-largest scientific research investments from national grants.

Its research excellence and importance is particularly distinctive in the area of chemistry, where it ranks fourth in the world, while it also contributes to biology, pharmacology, immunology, material science, and physics.

We have requested Kyoto University to share more details on the incident and its impact on research groups, but we haven't heard back yet.


Japan happens to have the most powerful supercomputer in the world at the moment, called "Fugaku", operated by the Riken Center for Computational Science, in Kobe.

Fugaku is an exascale system made by Fujitsu, capable of computational performance of 442 PFLOPS. The second in the global list, ***'s "Summit", can reach a much smaller figure of 148 PFLOPS.

Fugaku cost $1.2 billion to build and has so far been used for research on COVID-19, diagnostics, therapeutics, and virus spread simulations.

lol...of course. "Lost".

Good point.


“Sir, the computer is too smart and won’t tell us what we want it to, no matter how much we manipulate the input. What should we do?”


“Sounds like it’s time for a ‘faulty backup’ “.

Supercomputer: Covid is less dangerous than the cold
Bill gates: I will end you

Saw this too, just lol. Nothing is cohencidence.

Hp servers/sans are actually pretty good. Someone here ****ed up - could have easily been whatever software they were using too.

Watched the first little bit of Lex Friedman's interview of Elon Musk last night.

He was like *lol* the US monetary system is in COBOL on old mainframe computers run by the Federal Reserve.

Just lol.

Thread took a twist lol

Laughs in Madmax.

Like others have pointed out, how fuking convenient they lost COVID research data.

Luckily Pfizer will let us know their complete findings in 55 years.

Came in expecting Covid research being lost.

Also, lets remember Japan has been completely sealed off to foreigners for months now, the tourism industry has been decimated over hardcore government over-reaction, imagine if this researched pointed to an outcome that would make the government seem incompetent?

We wouldn't want that would we?

So this is the supercomputer version of Epstein?

Good thing you guys have redundant backups and one in cold storage, since that would cost like $2000.

Guys?LOOOOL!

HP didn't backup error himself.

No biggie, they should just ask the Chinese to hand over a copy.