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Research ISC25 List

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Ranking of the research system submissions. This is a subset of the Full List of submissions, showing only one highest-scoring result per storage system. This list also contains all valid IO500 submissions prior to the creation of the Research List.
# BoF Information IO500 Repro.
Institution System · FS Type Storage Vendor Client Nodes Total Client Proc. Score BW MD
(GiB/s) (kIOP/s)
101 SC20 Raytheon WekaIO wekafs Penguin Computing 42 1,596 50.58 16.39 156.10 -
102 SC19 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Oracle Cloud Infrastructure with Block Volume Service running Spectrum Scale Spectrum Scale Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Block Volumes Service 30 480 47.55 20.38 110.93 -
103 ISC25 Universidad Carlos III de Madrid C3-UC3M Expand ARCOS-UC3M 10 640 47.50 18.87 119.55
104 SC23 Telecommunications Technology Association KR580S1 Lustre Gluesys 10 320 44.82 23.29 86.26
105 SC19 Penguin Computing Benchmarking and Innovation Lab Penguin-ASG-NVBeeOne BeeGFS Penguin Computing/Excelero 10 320 39.65 17.71 88.76 -
106 SC19 CNES HAL Spectrum Scale DDN 96 96 37.16 9.71 142.20 -
107 SC24 Gesellschaft fur wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung Emmy CephFS Clyso 18 270 32.17 11.92 86.81
108 SC23 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia Research Campus Janelia Compute Cluster Vast Vast Data 32 2,048 26.83 11.45 62.84
109 SC23 Universidad Carlos III de Madrid MareNostrum 4 Expand ARCOS-UC3M 10 320 22.77 23.88 21.71
110 ISC25 GWDG Future Technology Platform Lustre Intel 21 420 22.08 6.49 75.14
111 SC19 Clemson University Palmetto Burstbuffer BeeGFS AdvancedHPC 10 120 21.55 12.97 35.80 -
112 SC23 Mississippi State University High Performance Computing Collaboratory Orion Lustre DDN 10 400 20.83 5.01 86.67
113 ISC20 Simon Fraser University Cedar Lustre Dell/Seagate 288 288 18.72 7.66 45.75 -
114 SC23 Mississippi State University High Performance Computing Collaboratory Orion Lustre DDN 10 400 17.57 6.43 48.03
115 SC20 The Science and Technology Facilities Council JASMIN 4 Quobyte Quobyte Inc. 48 336 17.55 19.76 15.60 -
116 ISC21 Georgia Institute of Technology PACE-Phoenix Lustre DDN 10 240 17.07 4.52 64.48 -
117 ISC23 Arizona State University Sol BeeGFS Dell 10 160 16.48 4.40 61.76
118 SC20 University of Tsukuba Cygnus Gfarm OSS 10 20 16.12 8.10 32.09 -
119 ISC21 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia Research Campus nrsv Vast 10 300 15.50 7.54 31.84 -
120 SC19 SUSE TigerShark SUSE Enterprise Storage - CephFS SUSE, Intel, Lenovo 15 120 14.91 5.74 38.72 -
121 SC21 GWDG SCC BeeGFS 10 80 12.55 2.63 59.85 -
122 SC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI Vast Scale-out NAS Vast Data 88 2,816 12.50 8.31 18.79 -
123 SC21 ULHPC Aion SpectrumScale DDN 128 256 11.35 1.80 71.57 -
124 ISC20 National Center for Supercomputing Applications HAL Spectrum Scale DDN 10 100 11.31 3.62 35.37 -
125 SC20 EPCC Archer 2 (test system) Lustre Cray 10 80 10.68 2.63 43.43 -
126 ISC23 Panasas PanEast ActiveStor Flash Panfs Panasas 10 80 10.57 4.49 24.90
127 SC22 Omnibond OrangeFS-Google OrangeFS Omnibond-Google 10 150 9.92 4.27 23.08 -
128 SC23 Eikon Therapeutics spt-compute1 Qumulo Core Qumulo 20 40 7.58 2.82 20.38 -
129 SC19 Stanford Sherlock/Regal Lustre Dell 10 160 7.05 1.64 30.28 -
130 SC23 LCPQ Ampere BeeGFS Home made 10 30 6.65 1.22 36.16
131 SC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI dm11 Scale-out NAS #N/A 10 760 6.42 2.61 15.82 -
132 ISC23 Panasas PanEast ActiveStor UltraXL Panfs Panasas 10 80 6.25 1.86 21.01
133 ISC21 DKRZ Mistral Lustre Seagate/Cray 10 80 5.22 1.16 23.50 -
134 SC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI nrs Scale-out NAS Qumulo 10 760 4.19 2.88 6.11 -
135 SC21 IBMDL Sandbox SpectrumScale IBM 10 0 3.17 0.61 16.57 -

Top 10 systems compared

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Score 100% Bandwidth 100% Metadata 100% Clients 100% Processes 100% #101 — WekaIO (Raytheon) #102 — Oracle Cloud Infrastructure with Block Volume Service running Spectrum Scale (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure) #103 — C3-UC3M (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) #104 — KR580S1 (Telecommunications Technology Association) #105 — Penguin-ASG-NVBeeOne (Penguin Computing Benchmarking and Innovation Lab) #106 — HAL (CNES) #107 — Emmy (Gesellschaft fur wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung) #108 — Janelia Compute Cluster (Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia Research Campus) #109 — MareNostrum 4 (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) #110 — Future Technology Platform (GWDG)
  • #101 WekaIO Raytheon
  • #102 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure with Block Volume Service running Spectrum Scale Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
  • #103 C3-UC3M Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
  • #104 KR580S1 Telecommunications Technology Association
  • #105 Penguin-ASG-NVBeeOne Penguin Computing Benchmarking and Innovation Lab
  • #106 HAL CNES
  • #107 Emmy Gesellschaft fur wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung
  • #108 Janelia Compute Cluster Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia Research Campus
  • #109 MareNostrum 4 Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
  • #110 Future Technology Platform GWDG