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This is the official summary list from ISC-HPC 2018. The list shows the best result for a given combination of system/institution/filesystem.

# BoF Information IO500 Repro.
Institution System · FS Type Storage Vendor Client Nodes Total Client Proc. Score BW MD
(GiB/s) (kIOP/s)
1 ISC18 JCAHPC Oakforest-PACS IME DDN 2,048 16,384 137.78 560.10 33.89 -
2 ISC18 KAUST ShaheenII DataWarp Cray 1,024 8,192 77.37 496.81 12.05 -
3 ISC18 KAUST ShaheenII Lustre Cray 1,000 16,000 41.00 54.17 31.03 -
4 ISC18 JSC JURON BeeGFS ThinkparQ 8 64 35.77 14.24 89.81 -
5 ISC18 DKRZ Mistral Lustre Seagate 100 1,000 32.15 22.77 45.39 -
6 ISC18 IBM Sonasad Spectrum Scale IBM 10 10 24.24 4.57 128.61 -
7 ISC18 Fraunhofer Seislab BeeGFS ThinkparQ 24 24 16.96 5.13 56.14 -
8 ISC18 DKRZ Mistral Lustre1 Seagate 100 1,200 15.47 12.68 18.88 -
9 ISC18 Joint Institute for Nuclear Research Govorun Lustre RSC 24 192 12.08 3.34 43.65 -
10 ISC18 PNNL EMSL Cascade Lustre 126 252 11.12 4.88 25.33 -
11 ISC18 SNL Serrano Spectrum Scale IBM 16 160 4.25 0.65 27.98 -
12 ISC18 STFC Jasmin/Lotus NFS Purestorage 64 128 2.33 0.26 20.93 -

Top 10 systems compared

Each axis is scaled to the highest value among these systems — 100% marks the leader on that dimension. Click a system below to toggle it.

Score 100% Bandwidth 100% Metadata 100% Clients 100% Processes 100% #1 — Oakforest-PACS (JCAHPC) #2 — ShaheenII (KAUST) #3 — ShaheenII (KAUST) #4 — JURON (JSC) #5 — Mistral (DKRZ) #6 — Sonasad (IBM) #7 — Seislab (Fraunhofer) #8 — Mistral (DKRZ) #9 — Govorun (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research) #10 — EMSL Cascade (PNNL)
  • #1 Oakforest-PACS JCAHPC
  • #2 ShaheenII KAUST
  • #3 ShaheenII KAUST
  • #4 JURON JSC
  • #5 Mistral DKRZ
  • #6 Sonasad IBM
  • #7 Seislab Fraunhofer
  • #8 Mistral DKRZ
  • #9 Govorun Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
  • #10 EMSL Cascade PNNL