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Research SC19 List
This is the official list from Supercomputing 2019. The list shows the best result for a given combination of system/institution/filesystem.
Please see also the 10 node challenge ranked list.
| # | Information | IO500 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BoF | Institution | System | Storage Vendor | File System Type | Client Nodes | Total Client Proc. | Score | BW | MD | Repro. | |
| (GiB/s) | (kIOP/s) | ||||||||||
| 1 | SC19 | WekaIO | WekaIO on AWS | WekaIO | WekaIO Matrix | 345 | 8,625 | 938.95 | 174.74 | 5,045.33 | - |
| 2 | SC19 | Intel | Wolf | Intel | DAOS | 26 | 728 | 933.64 | 183.36 | 4,753.79 | - |
| 3 | SC19 | National Supercomputing Center in Changsha | Tianhe-2E | National University of Defense Technology | Lustre | 480 | 5,280 | 453.68 | 209.43 | 982.78 | - |
| 4 | SC19 | NVIDIA | DGX-2H SuperPOD | DDN | Lustre | 10 | 400 | 249.50 | 86.97 | 715.76 | - |
| 5 | SC19 | University of Cambridge | Data Accelerator | Dell EMC | Lustre | 128 | 2,048 | 229.45 | 131.25 | 401.13 | - |
| 6 | SC19 | CEA | Tera-1000 | DDN | Lustre | 128 | 4,096 | 210.26 | 81.01 | 545.74 | - |
| 7 | SC19 | CSIRO | bracewell scratch2 | Dell/ThinkParQ | beegfs | 26 | 260 | 94.86 | 69.10 | 130.23 | - |
| 8 | SC19 | State Key Laboratory of High-end Server & Storage Technology (HSS) | TStor3000 | INSPUR | BeeGFS | 10 | 300 | 82.57 | 41.14 | 165.71 | - |
| 9 | SC19 | Google Cloud | EXA5-GCP-PD-SSD | Google Cloud | Lustre | 200 | 1,600 | 67.78 | 26.93 | 170.61 | - |
| 10 | SC19 | DDN | AI400 | DDN | Lustre | 10 | 240 | 63.88 | 19.65 | 207.63 | - |
| 11 | SC19 | Google Cloud | EXA5-GCP-PD-STD | Google Cloud | Lustre | 200 | 1,600 | 52.96 | 17.31 | 162.06 | - |
| 12 | SC19 | Janelia Research Campus, HHMI | SharedScratch | WekaIO | wekaio | 18 | 1,368 | 48.75 | 26.22 | 90.62 | - |
| 13 | SC19 | Oracle Cloud Infrastructure | Oracle Cloud Infrastructure with Block Volume Service running Spectrum Scale | Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Block Volumes Service | Spectrum Scale | 30 | 480 | 47.55 | 20.38 | 110.93 | - |
| 14 | SC19 | Penguin Computing Benchmarking and Innovation Lab | Penguin-ASG-NVBeeOne | Penguin Computing/Excelero | BeeGFS | 10 | 320 | 39.65 | 17.71 | 88.76 | - |
| 15 | SC19 | CNES | HAL | DDN | Spectrum Scale | 96 | 96 | 34.76 | 8.51 | 141.99 | - |
| 16 | SC19 | Clemson University | Palmetto Burstbuffer | AdvancedHPC | BeeGFS | 10 | 120 | 21.55 | 12.97 | 35.80 | - |
| 17 | SC19 | SUSE | TigerShark | SUSE, Intel, Lenovo | SUSE Enterprise Storage - CephFS | 15 | 120 | 14.91 | 5.74 | 38.72 | - |
| 18 | SC19 | Janelia Research Campus, HHMI | Vast | Vast Data | Scale-out NAS | 88 | 2,816 | 12.50 | 8.31 | 18.79 | - |
| 19 | SC19 | Stanford | Sherlock/Regal | Dell | Lustre | 10 | 160 | 7.05 | 1.64 | 30.28 | - |
| 20 | SC19 | Janelia Research Campus, HHMI | dm11 | #N/A | Scale-out NAS | 10 | 760 | 6.42 | 2.61 | 15.82 | - |
| 21 | SC19 | Janelia Research Campus, HHMI | nrs | Qumulo | Scale-out NAS | 10 | 760 | 4.19 | 2.88 | 6.11 | - |
| 22 | SC19 | Janelia Research Campus, HHMI | nearline4 | Qumulo | Scale-out NAS | 10 | 760 | 3.67 | 2.45 | 5.49 | - |