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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)
301 SC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI Vast Scale-out NAS Vast Data 10 480 8.45 6.16 11.60 -
302 SC19 IST Austria IST Austria HPC BeeGFS Homemade@IST 4 80 8.41 1.77 39.98 -
303 ISC19 SUSE TigerShark CephFS SUSE, Intel, Lenovo 14 98 8.38 3.58 19.60 -
304 SC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI Vast Scale-out NAS Vast Data 10 820 8.01 6.31 10.17 -
305 ISC20 German Climate Computing Center Mistral Lustre1 Cray 10 120 7.92 2.93 21.36 -
306 SC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI Vast Scale-out NAS Vast Data 10 480 7.77 5.39 11.18 -
307 SC18 Clemson University Palmetto BeeGFS Dell 48 48 7.64 2.93 19.88 -
308 SC23 Eikon Therapeutics spt-compute1 Qumulo Core Qumulo 20 40 7.58 2.82 20.38 -
309 SC18 CERN Bytecollider CephFS 64 64 7.56 2.83 20.16 -
310 SC18 Clemson University ofsdev Lustre Dell 10 40 7.36 1.90 28.59 -
311 ISC19 SUSE TigerShark SUSE Enterprise Storage SUSE, Intel, Lenovo 10 70 7.32 2.48 21.60 -
312 ISC20 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI Vast Scale-out NAS Vast Data 10 620 7.27 5.96 8.86 -
313 SC18 Clemson University Palmetto BeeGFS Dell 10 10 7.14 2.32 22.05 -
314 SC19 Stanford Sherlock/Regal Lustre Dell 10 160 7.05 1.64 30.28 -
315 ISC20 German Climate Computing Center Mistral Lustre1 Cray 10 120 6.92 2.89 16.57 -
316 SC18 Clemson University Palmetto BeeGFS Dell 32 32 6.67 2.95 15.10 -
317 SC23 LCPQ Ampere BeeGFS Home made 10 30 6.65 1.22 36.16
318 SC19 IST Austria IST Austria HPC BeeGFS Homemade@IST 10 100 6.63 1.39 31.62 -
319 SC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI dm11 Scale-out NAS #N/A 10 760 6.42 2.61 15.82 -
320 SC18 Clemson University Palmetto BeeGFS Dell 32 128 6.26 1.25 31.42 -
321 ISC23 Panasas PanEast ActiveStor UltraXL Panfs Panasas 10 80 6.25 1.86 21.01
322 SC20 University of Reading ThunderX2 Local file system 1 16 6.23 0.37 104.54 -
323 ISC20 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI VastTest Scale-out NAS Vast Data 10 620 6.20 3.51 10.95 -
324 SC18 Clemson University Palmetto BeeGFS Dell 32 64 6.16 1.25 30.28 -
325 SC18 Clemson University ofsdev Lustre Dell 16 32 6.07 1.34 27.56 -
326 SC18 CERN Bytecollider CephFS 64 64 6.01 2.85 12.64 -
327 ISC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI nrs Scale out NFS Qumulo 10 320 5.95 2.59 13.69 -
328 SC18 Clemson University Palmetto BeeGFS Dell 32 256 5.79 1.05 31.92 -
329 ISC19 PGS Lustre on GCP Lustre Google 10 50 5.70 1.91 17.05 -
330 ISC20 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI VastTest Scale-out NAS Vast Data 10 620 5.68 3.67 8.80 -
331 SC23 Eikon Therapeutics spt-compute1 Qumulo Core Qumulo 10 20 5.35 2.24 12.77 -
332 ISC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI qflash Scale out NFS Qumulo 96 960 5.32 2.80 10.11 -
333 SC18 DKRZ Mistral Lustre2 Seagate 10 80 5.32 1.05 27.06 -

Top 10 systems compared

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Score 100% Bandwidth 100% Metadata 100% Clients 100% Processes 100% #301 — Vast (Janelia Research Campus, HHMI) #302 — IST Austria HPC (IST Austria) #303 — TigerShark (SUSE) #304 — Vast (Janelia Research Campus, HHMI) #305 — Mistral (German Climate Computing Center) #306 — Vast (Janelia Research Campus, HHMI) #307 — Palmetto (Clemson University) #308 — spt-compute1 (Eikon Therapeutics) #309 — Bytecollider (CERN) #310 — ofsdev (Clemson University)
  • #301 Vast Janelia Research Campus, HHMI
  • #302 IST Austria HPC IST Austria
  • #303 TigerShark SUSE
  • #304 Vast Janelia Research Campus, HHMI
  • #305 Mistral German Climate Computing Center
  • #306 Vast Janelia Research Campus, HHMI
  • #307 Palmetto Clemson University
  • #308 spt-compute1 Eikon Therapeutics
  • #309 Bytecollider CERN
  • #310 ofsdev Clemson University