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# 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 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI SharedScratch WekaIO wekaio 18 1,368 48.75 26.22 90.62 -
2 SC20 Raytheon WekaIO Penguin Computing wekafs 42 1,596 50.58 16.39 156.10 -
3 SC20 Raytheon WekaIO Penguin Computing wekafs 10 440 32.20 14.83 69.88 -
4 ISC21 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia Research Campus Vast nrsv 10 300 15.50 7.54 31.84 -
5 ISC21 National Supercomputer Center in GuangZhou Venus2 National Supercomputer Center in GuangZhou kapok 18 720 577.93 104.52 3,195.53 -
6 ISC20 National Supercomputer Center in Guangzhou Venus2 National Supercomputer Center in Guangzhou kapok 10 260 148.08 30.62 716.11 -
7 ISC20 National Supercomputer Center in Guangzhou Venus2 National Supercomputer Center in Guangzhou kapok 10 260 146.42 28.99 739.49 -
8 SC19 CSIRO bracewell scratch2 Dell/ThinkParQ beegfs 26 260 94.86 69.10 130.23 -
9 SC19 CSIRO bracewell Dell/ThinkParQ beegfs 10 160 66.80 33.77 132.15 -
10 SC19 iFLYTEK iFLYTEK Yanrong YRCloudFile 10 200 78.54 13.55 455.18 -
11 SC19 iFLYTEK iFLYTEK Yanrong YRCloudFile 10 200 63.98 11.41 358.87 -
12 SC19 WekaIO WekaIO on AWS WekaIO WekaIO Matrix 345 8,625 938.95 174.74 5,045.33 -
13 SC19 WekaIO WekaIO WekaIO WekaIO Matrix 10 2,610 156.51 56.22 435.76 -
14 SC21 Raytheon MCK-HPC Penguin Computing WekaFS 44 1,584 86.24 27.64 269.10 -
15 SC21 Raytheon MCK-HPC Penguin Computing WekaFS 10 360 62.55 25.96 150.70 -
16 ISC21 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia Research Campus Janelia Weka.io Weka.io 10 300 62.68 18.17 216.22 -
17 SC21 HHMIJRC Janelia Compute Cluster Vast Data Vast 80 2,880 21.72 14.11 33.42 -
18 SC21 NLHPC Guacolda IBM SpectrumScale 24 480 83.18 33.87 204.27 -
19 SC21 IBM Tucson Arches 2021B IBM SpectrumScale 10 200 68.83 33.02 143.46 -
20 SC21 NLHPC Guacolda IBM SpectrumScale 10 360 45.26 17.91 114.36 -
21 SC21 ULHPC Aion DDN SpectrumScale 128 256 11.35 1.80 71.57 -
22 SC21 IBMDL Sandbox IBM SpectrumScale 10 0 3.17 0.61 16.57 -
23 ISC20 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure SpectrumScale on Oracle Cloud Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Spectrum Scale 48 768 70.91 34.91 144.06 -
24 ISC20 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure SpectrumScale on Oracle Cloud Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Spectrum Scale 48 768 66.69 31.78 139.96 -
25 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 -
26 SC19 CNES HAL DDN Spectrum Scale 96 96 37.16 9.71 142.20 -
27 SC19 CNES HAL DDN Spectrum Scale 96 96 34.76 8.51 141.99 -
28 SC19 University of Birmingham BEAR-AI DDN Spectrum Scale 10 80 15.39 2.74 86.48 -
29 ISC20 National Center for Supercomputing Applications NCSA Industry System DDN/Dell Spectrum Scale 8 96 12.37 3.03 50.54 -
30 ISC20 National Center for Supercomputing Applications HAL DDN Spectrum Scale 10 100 11.31 3.62 35.37 -
31 ISC20 National Center for Supercomputing Applications NCSA Industry System DDN/Dell Spectrum Scale 8 96 11.28 3.04 41.78 -
32 ISC20 National Center for Supercomputing Applications HAL DDN Spectrum Scale 10 100 11.13 3.63 34.15 -
33 SC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI Vast Vast Data Scale-out NAS 88 2,816 12.50 8.31 18.79 -
34 SC20 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI Vast Vast Data Scale-out NAS 10 260 10.64 7.44 15.22 -
35 ISC20 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI Vast Vast Data Scale-out NAS 10 620 9.87 6.36 15.32 -
36 SC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI Vast Vast Data Scale-out NAS 10 820 8.01 6.31 10.17 -
37 ISC20 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI Vast Vast Data Scale-out NAS 10 620 7.27 5.96 8.86 -
38 SC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI dm11 #N/A Scale-out NAS 10 760 6.42 2.61 15.82 -
39 ISC20 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI VastTest Vast Data Scale-out NAS 10 620 6.20 3.51 10.95 -
40 ISC20 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI VastTest Vast Data Scale-out NAS 10 620 5.68 3.67 8.80 -
41 ISC20 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI VastTest Vast Data Scale-out NAS 10 620 4.98 3.56 6.96 -
42 SC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI nrs Qumulo Scale-out NAS 10 760 4.19 2.88 6.11 -
43 SC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI nearline4 Qumulo Scale-out NAS 10 760 3.67 2.45 5.49 -
44 SC19 SUSE TigerShark SUSE, Intel, Lenovo SUSE Enterprise Storage - CephFS 15 120 14.91 5.74 38.72 -
45 SC19 SUSE TigerShark SUSE, Intel, Lenovo SUSE Enterprise Storage - CephFS 10 80 12.43 4.64 33.34 -
46 SC20 NASA hyperwall4 Intel. SK-Hynx SSD 128 1,024 75.75 122.24 46.94 -
47 SC20 The Science and Technology Facilities Council JASMIN 4 Quobyte Inc. Quobyte 48 336 17.55 19.76 15.60 -
48 SC20 The Science and Technology Facilities Council JASMIN 4 Quobyte Inc. Quobyte 10 240 11.34 12.34 10.43 -
49 SC20 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI SharedScratch WekaIO Parallel Filesystem 48 1,248 134.09 48.03 374.40 -
50 SC20 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI SharedScratch WekaIO Parallel Filesystem 40 1,040 123.47 43.63 349.44 -
51 SC20 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI SharedScratch WekaIO Parallel Filesystem 10 320 57.99 20.80 161.71 -
52 SC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI SharedScratch WekaIO Parallel Filesystem 10 1,440 36.55 18.58 71.90 -
53 ISC20 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI SharedScratch WekaIO Parallel Filesystem 10 600 31.39 12.34 79.83 -
54 ISC20 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI SharedScratch WekaIO Parallel Filesystem 10 600 30.83 13.35 71.22 -
55 SC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI SharedScratch WekaIO Parallel Filesystem 10 400 24.70 16.32 37.37 -
56 ISC20 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI SharedScratch WekaIO Parallel Filesystem 10 600 24.19 11.85 49.39 -
57 ISC20 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI SharedScratch WekaIO Parallel Filesystem 10 600 21.32 11.27 40.32 -
58 SC21 Huawei HPDA Lab Athena Huawei OceanFS 10 1,720 2,395.03 314.56 18,235.71 -
59 SC21 Olympus Lab OceanStor Pacific Huawei OceanFS 10 1,720 2,298.69 317.07 16,664.88 -
60 ISC21 Olympus Storage Technology Innovation Lab OceanStor Huawei OceanFS 10 960 220.10 69.49 697.15 -
61 ISC21 Pengcheng Laboratory Pengcheng Cloudbrain-II on Atlas 900 Pengcheng MadFS 512 36,864 36,850.40 3,421.62 396,872.82 -
62 SC20 Pengcheng Laboratory Pengcheng Cloudbrain-II on Atlas 900 Pengcheng Laboratory MadFS 255 18,360 7,043.99 1,475.75 33,622.19 -
63 SC20 Pengcheng Laboratory Pengcheng Cloudbrain-II on Atlas 900 Pengcheng Laboratory MadFS 256 18,432 6,831.55 1,524.11 30,621.10 -
64 SC20 Pengcheng Laboratory Pengcheng Cloudbrain-II on Atlas 900 Pengcheng Laboratory MadFS 10 1,440 1,129.75 168.43 7,578.06 -
65 ISC20 German Climate Computing Center Mistral Cray Lustre1 10 120 7.92 2.93 21.36 -
66 ISC20 German Climate Computing Center Mistral Cray Lustre1 10 120 6.92 2.89 16.57 -
67 ISC21 Google Cloud Google DDN Lustre 1,000 5,000 569.99 282.78 1,148.90 -
68 SC19 National Supercomputing Center in Changsha Tianhe-2E National University of Defense Technology Lustre 480 5,280 453.68 209.43 982.78 -
69 ISC21 University of Florida HiPerGator DDN Lustre 140 4,480 269.59 181.37 400.73 -
70 SC19 NVIDIA DGX-2H SuperPOD DDN Lustre 10 400 249.50 86.97 715.76 -
71 SC19 University of Cambridge Data Accelerator Dell EMC Lustre 128 2,048 229.45 131.25 401.13 -
72 SC19 CEA Tera-1000 DDN Lustre 128 4,096 210.26 81.01 545.74 -
73 ISC21 LuxProvide MeluXina DDN Lustre 512 12,288 194.12 112.06 336.25 -
74 ISC20 DDN AI400X DDN Lustre 40 1,280 137.03 46.84 400.84 -
75 ISC20 DDN AI400X DDN Lustre 40 1,280 127.29 40.72 397.91 -
76 SC20 Joint Supercomputer Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences MVS10POP2 RSC Group Lustre 54 864 125.50 45.31 347.61 -
77 ISC21 Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology Earth Simulator DDN Lustre 10 320 101.88 48.19 215.38 -
78 ISC20 CSIRO bracewell Dell/DDN Lustre 10 400 99.64 39.90 248.81 -
79 ISC20 CSIRO bracewell Dell/DDN Lustre 10 400 97.67 39.87 239.26 -
80 ISC20 JINR Govorun RSC Group Lustre 50 800 90.87 35.61 231.88 -
81 ISC20 JINR Govorun RSC Group Lustre 50 800 88.51 36.28 215.97 -
82 ISC20 DDN AI400X DDN Lustre 10 160 69.92 21.01 232.70 -
83 SC21 CQ Narval Dell Lustre 640 640 68.31 32.74 142.53 -
84 SC19 Google Cloud EXA5-GCP-PD-SSD Google Cloud Lustre 200 1,600 67.78 26.93 170.61 -
85 ISC20 SPbPU Polytechnic RSC Tornado RSC Group Lustre 59 944 64.29 21.56 191.73 -
86 ISC20 SPbPU Polytechnic RSC Tornado RSC Group Lustre 59 944 64.11 21.00 195.66 -
87 SC19 DDN AI400 DDN Lustre 10 240 63.88 19.65 207.63 -
88 ISC20 DDN AI400X DDN Lustre 10 160 63.83 17.79 229.01 -
89 SC19 University of Cambridge Data Accelerator Dell EMC Lustre 10 320 60.25 21.73 167.09 -
90 SC19 Google Cloud EXA5-GCP-PD-STD Google Cloud Lustre 200 1,600 52.96 17.31 162.06 -
91 SC19 National Supercomputing Center in Changsha Tianhe-2E National University of Defense Technology Lustre 10 160 52.58 35.06 78.86 -
92 SC19 National Supercomputing Center in Changsha Tianhe-2E National University of Defense Technology Lustre 10 160 50.08 32.71 76.67 -
93 ISC20 Simon Fraser University Cedar Dell/Seagate Lustre 288 288 18.72 7.66 45.75 -
94 SC21 CMKL University Apex DDN Lustre 4 240 18.60 10.27 33.66 -
95 SC19 Stanford Sherlock/Fir Dell, QCT, HGST Lustre 10 240 18.25 5.23 63.74 -
96 ISC21 Georgia Institute of Technology PACE-Phoenix DDN Lustre 10 240 17.07 4.52 64.48 -
97 SC20 EPCC Archer 2 (test system) Cray Lustre 10 80 10.68 2.63 43.43 -
98 SC19 Stanford Sherlock/Oak Dell, QCT, HGST Lustre 10 240 9.31 1.89 45.87 -
99 SC19 Stanford Sherlock/Regal Dell Lustre 10 160 7.05 1.64 30.28 -
100 ISC21 DKRZ Mistral Seagate/Cray Lustre 10 80 5.22 1.16 23.50 -