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Historical SC23 List

Ranking of all submissions ever received
# BoF Information IO500 Repro.
Institution System · FS Type Storage Vendor Client Nodes Total Client Proc. Score BW MD
(GiB/s) (kIOP/s)
101 SC23 IBM Ehningen System DACH Storage Scale System 3500 IBM Storage Scale IBM 10 200 166.25 87.14 317.17
102 SC20 DDN DIME IME DDN 10 110 161.53 101.60 256.78 -
103 SC18 University of Cambridge Data Accelerator Lustre Dell EMC 528 4,224 158.71 71.40 352.75 -
104 SC18 Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI) NURION IME DDN 2,048 4,096 156.91 554.23 44.43 -
105 SC19 WekaIO WekaIO WekaIO Matrix WekaIO 10 2,610 156.51 56.22 435.76 -
106 ISC20 EPCC NextGENIO GekkoFS NextGenIO (BSC & JGU) 10 280 152.30 24.83 934.12 -
107 ISC20 EPCC NextGENIO GekkoFS NextGenIO (BSC & JGU) 10 280 149.92 24.91 902.12 -
108 ISC21 University of Tsukuba Cygnus CHFS OSS 10 240 148.69 30.39 727.61 -
109 ISC20 National Supercomputer Center in Guangzhou Venus2 kapok National Supercomputer Center in Guangzhou 10 260 148.08 30.62 716.11 -
110 ISC20 National Supercomputer Center in Guangzhou Venus2 kapok National Supercomputer Center in Guangzhou 10 260 146.42 28.99 739.49 -
111 ISC20 JCAHPC Oakforest-PACS IME DDN 512 4,096 146.33 341.29 62.74 -
112 ISC23 DDN AI400X2-I EXAScaler DDN 10 320 142.03 33.43 603.39
113 ISC18 JCAHPC Oakforest-PACS IME DDN 2,048 16,384 137.78 560.10 33.89 -
114 ISC20 DDN AI400X Lustre DDN 40 1,280 137.03 46.84 400.84 -
115 SC23 DDN AI400X2-I EXAScaler DDN 10 640 136.38 38.45 483.74
116 SC23 IBM Tucson Arches Storage Scale System 3500 IBM Storage Scale IBM 10 200 136.36 74.18 250.64
117 SC20 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI SharedScratch Parallel Filesystem WekaIO 48 1,248 134.09 48.03 374.40 -
118 SC22 DDN AI400X2-I EXAScaler DDN 10 160 133.81 32.90 544.24 -
119 ISC21 Joint Institute of Nuclear Research Govorun DAOS RSC 10 160 132.07 20.19 863.69 -
120 ISC23 IBM Tuscon Arches 2 Storage Scale 3500 BBs IBM Storage Scale 5.1.7.1 with ESS 6.1.6.0 IBM 10 200 128.00 73.80 222.03
121 ISC20 DDN AI400X Lustre DDN 40 1,280 127.29 40.72 397.91 -
122 ISC23 Riken R-CCS Riken-FX700 DAOS Intel 10 480 126.10 21.39 743.47
123 SC20 Joint Supercomputer Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences MVS10POP2 Lustre RSC Group 54 864 125.50 45.31 347.61 -
124 SC19 EPCC NextGENIO GekkoFS NextGenIO (BSC & JGU) 10 240 125.08 21.47 728.68 -
125 SC20 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI SharedScratch Parallel Filesystem WekaIO 40 1,040 123.47 43.63 349.44 -
126 ISC23 Imperial College London Imperial - hx cluster Spectrum scale Lenovo 32 512 119.56 44.63 320.31
127 ISC20 DDN DIME IME DDN 10 110 116.95 100.37 136.27 -
128 ISC19 DDN IME140 IME DDN 17 272 112.67 90.34 140.52 -
129 ISC22 IBM Tuscon Arches Spectrum Scale IBM 10 200 110.07 62.59 193.59 -
130 SC20 TACC Frontera IME DDN 10 280 109.91 176.23 68.55 -
131 ISC19 DDN Colorado DDN IME140 IME DDN 10 160 109.42 75.79 157.96 -
132 ISC22 DDN AI400X2-I EXAScaler DDN 10 320 107.04 31.10 368.48 -
133 ISC19 DDN AI400 Lustre DDN 10 160 104.34 19.65 553.98 -
134 ISC20 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure BeeGFS on Oracle Cloud BeeGFS Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 270 3,240 104.30 47.44 229.33 -
135 SC23 Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology Earth Simulator 4 EXAScaler DDN 10 320 101.88 48.19 215.38
136 ISC21 Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology Earth Simulator Lustre DDN 10 320 101.88 48.19 215.38 -
137 ISC18 JCAHPC Oakforest-PACS IME DDN 2,048 16,384 101.48 471.25 21.85 -
138 ISC20 CSIRO bracewell Lustre Dell/DDN 10 400 99.64 39.90 248.81 -
139 ISC19 University of Cambridge Data Accelerator Lustre Dell EMC 10 320 98.31 26.94 358.85 -
140 ISC20 CSIRO bracewell Lustre Dell/DDN 10 400 97.67 39.87 239.26 -
141 ISC20 Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz MOGON II GekkoFS JGU (ADA-FS)& BSC (NEXTGenIO) 10 160 96.46 11.61 801.60 -
142 ISC19 DDN IME140 IME DDN 10 160 95.10 76.89 117.62 -
143 SC19 CSIRO bracewell scratch2 beegfs Dell/ThinkParQ 26 260 94.86 69.10 130.23 -
144 ISC20 Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz MOGON II GekkoFS JGU (ADA-FS)& BSC (NEXTGenIO) 10 160 92.91 10.96 787.71 -
145 ISC20 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure BeeGFS on Oracle Cloud BeeGFS Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 170 2,040 91.48 42.65 196.20 -
146 ISC20 JINR Govorun Lustre RSC Group 50 800 90.87 35.61 231.88 -
147 ISC20 JINR Govorun Lustre RSC Group 50 800 88.51 36.28 215.97 -
148 ISC19 CSIRO bracewell BeeGFS Dell/ThinkParQ 26 260 88.26 67.44 115.50 -
149 SC21 Raytheon MCK-HPC WekaFS Penguin Computing 44 1,584 86.24 27.64 269.10 -
150 SC21 NLHPC Guacolda SpectrumScale IBM 24 480 83.18 33.87 204.27 -
151 SC19 State Key Laboratory of High-end Server & Storage Technology (HSS) TStor3000 BeeGFS INSPUR 10 300 82.57 41.14 165.71 -
152 SC19 iFLYTEK iFLYTEK YRCloudFile Yanrong 10 200 78.54 13.55 455.18 -
153 SC18 WekaIO WekaIO WekaIO 17 935 78.37 37.39 164.26 -
154 ISC18 KAUST ShaheenII DataWarp Cray 1,024 8,192 77.37 496.81 12.05 -
155 SC20 NASA hyperwall4 SSD Intel. SK-Hynx 128 1,024 75.75 122.24 46.94 -
156 SC18 University of Cambridge Data Accelerator BeeGFS Dell EMC 184 5,888 74.58 58.81 94.57 -
157 ISC19 DDN Japan AI400 Lustre DDN 10 160 74.10 12.22 449.28 -
158 ISC20 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure SpectrumScale on Oracle Cloud Spectrum Scale Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 48 768 70.91 34.91 144.06 -
159 ISC18 KAUST ShaheenII DataWarp Cray 300 2,400 70.90 151.53 33.17 -
160 ISC20 DDN AI400X Lustre DDN 10 160 69.92 21.01 232.70 -
161 SC21 IBM Tucson Arches 2021B SpectrumScale IBM 10 200 68.83 33.02 143.46 -
162 SC21 CQ Narval Lustre Dell 640 640 68.31 32.74 142.53 -
163 SC19 Google Cloud EXA5-GCP-PD-SSD Lustre Google Cloud 200 1,600 67.78 26.93 170.61 -
164 ISC20 Officinalis CephFS Red Hat, Intel, QCT 8 256 66.88 28.58 156.48 -
165 SC19 CSIRO bracewell beegfs Dell/ThinkParQ 10 160 66.80 33.77 132.15 -
166 ISC20 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure SpectrumScale on Oracle Cloud Spectrum Scale Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 48 768 66.69 31.78 139.96 -
167 ISC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI Weka WekaIO 10 3,200 66.43 27.74 159.12 -
168 ISC20 SPbPU Polytechnic RSC Tornado Lustre RSC Group 59 944 64.29 21.56 191.73 -
169 ISC20 SPbPU Polytechnic RSC Tornado Lustre RSC Group 59 944 64.11 21.00 195.66 -
170 SC19 iFLYTEK iFLYTEK YRCloudFile Yanrong 10 200 63.98 11.41 358.87 -
171 SC19 DDN AI400 Lustre DDN 10 240 63.88 19.65 207.63 -
172 ISC20 DDN AI400X Lustre DDN 10 160 63.83 17.79 229.01 -
173 ISC19 CSIRO bracewell BeeGFS Dell/ThinkParQ 10 160 63.46 34.85 115.56 -
174 ISC21 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia Research Campus Janelia Weka.io Weka.io 10 300 62.68 18.17 216.22 -
175 SC21 Raytheon MCK-HPC WekaFS Penguin Computing 10 360 62.55 25.96 150.70 -
176 SC22 Mohamed bin Zayed University CIAI Lustre Q-Leap Networks GmbH / HPCME 16 256 62.40 22.22 175.23 -
177 SC23 Center for Research Informatics at University of Chicago Randi Spectrum Scale IBM 10 160 60.88 31.05 119.36
178 SC19 University of Cambridge Data Accelerator Lustre Dell EMC 10 320 60.25 21.73 167.09 -
179 ISC19 DDN 400NV GRIDScaler DDN 10 30 59.49 13.55 261.21 -
180 ISC20 Officinalis CephFS Red Hat, Intel, QCT 8 256 59.42 28.44 124.13 -
181 SC18 WekaIO WekaIO Matrix WekaIO 10 700 58.25 27.05 125.43 -
182 SC20 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI SharedScratch Parallel Filesystem WekaIO 10 320 57.99 20.80 161.71 -
183 ISC20 Red Hat EC2-10xi3en.metal CephFS Red Hat 10 320 57.17 26.29 124.30 -
184 ISC20 Officinalis CephFS Red Hat, Intel, QCT 8 256 56.28 27.67 114.50 -
185 ISC20 Red Hat EC2-10xi3en.metal CephFS Red Hat 10 320 55.13 25.67 118.42 -
186 SC23 XF_Lab XF_computer XF_Stor XF_Stor 1 20 54.83 4.16 723.05
187 SC23 Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center Altair Lustre Huawei/xFusion 14 392 53.70 8.84 326.39
188 ISC20 Officinalis CephFS Red Hat, Intel, QCT 8 256 53.44 28.10 101.63 -
189 SC19 Google Cloud EXA5-GCP-PD-STD Lustre Google Cloud 200 1,600 52.96 17.31 162.06 -
190 SC19 National Supercomputing Center in Changsha Tianhe-2E Lustre National University of Defense Technology 10 160 52.58 35.06 78.86 -
191 SC20 Raytheon WekaIO wekafs Penguin Computing 42 1,596 50.58 16.39 156.10 -
192 SC19 National Supercomputing Center in Changsha Tianhe-2E Lustre National University of Defense Technology 10 160 50.08 32.71 76.67 -
193 SC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI SharedScratch wekaio WekaIO 18 1,368 48.75 26.22 90.62 -
194 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 -
195 SC18 Google Exascaler on GCP Lustre Google 120 960 47.23 23.06 96.74 -
196 SC21 NLHPC Guacolda SpectrumScale IBM 10 360 45.26 17.91 114.36 -
197 SC23 Telecommunications Technology Association KR580S1 Lustre Gluesys 10 320 44.82 23.29 86.26
198 SC18 Oak Ridge National Laboratory Summit Spectrum Scale IBM 10 160 44.30 9.84 199.48 -
199 SC18 JCAHPC Oakforest-PACS Lustre DDN 256 8,192 44.24 21.42 91.40 -
200 SC19 National Supercomputing Centre, Singapore Aspire 1 IME DDN 10 160 43.04 101.75 18.21 -

Top 10 systems compared

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Score 100% Bandwidth 100% Metadata 100% Clients 100% Processes 100% #101 — DACH Storage Scale System 3500 (IBM Ehningen System) #102 — DIME (DDN) #103 — Data Accelerator (University of Cambridge) #104 — NURION (Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI)) #105 — WekaIO (WekaIO) #106 — NextGENIO (EPCC) #107 — NextGENIO (EPCC) #108 — Cygnus (University of Tsukuba) #109 — Venus2 (National Supercomputer Center in Guangzhou) #110 — Venus2 (National Supercomputer Center in Guangzhou)
  • #101 DACH Storage Scale System 3500 IBM Ehningen System
  • #102 DIME DDN
  • #103 Data Accelerator University of Cambridge
  • #104 NURION Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI)
  • #105 WekaIO WekaIO
  • #106 NextGENIO EPCC
  • #107 NextGENIO EPCC
  • #108 Cygnus University of Tsukuba
  • #109 Venus2 National Supercomputer Center in Guangzhou
  • #110 Venus2 National Supercomputer Center in Guangzhou