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Research ISC19 List

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This is the official ranked list1 from ISC HPC 2019.

Please see also the 10 node challenge ranked list.

The list shows the best result for a given combination of system/institution/filesystem.

1That means only those entries that qualify according to the wish of the submitter are contained.

# BoF Information IO500 Repro.
Institution System · FS Type Storage Vendor Client Nodes Total Client Proc. Score BW MD
(GiB/s) (kIOP/s)
1 ISC19 University of Cambridge Data Accelerator Lustre Dell EMC 512 8,192 620.69 162.05 2,377.44 -
2 SC18 Oak Ridge National Laboratory Summit Spectrum Scale IBM 504 1,008 330.56 88.20 1,238.93 -
3 ISC19 JCAHPC Oakforest-PACS IME DDN 2,048 2,048 275.65 492.06 154.41 -
4 SC18 Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI) NURION IME DDN 2,048 4,096 156.91 554.23 44.43 -
5 ISC19 DDN IME140 IME DDN 17 272 112.67 90.34 140.52 -
6 ISC19 DDN Colorado DDN IME140 IME DDN 10 160 109.42 75.79 157.96 -
7 ISC19 DDN AI400 Lustre DDN 10 160 104.34 19.65 553.98 -
8 ISC19 CSIRO bracewell BeeGFS Dell/ThinkParQ 26 260 88.26 67.44 115.50 -
9 ISC18 KAUST ShaheenII DataWarp Cray 1,024 8,192 77.37 496.81 12.05 -
10 SC18 University of Cambridge Data Accelerator BeeGFS Dell EMC 184 5,888 74.58 58.81 94.57 -
11 ISC19 DDN Japan AI400 Lustre DDN 10 160 74.10 12.22 449.28 -
12 ISC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI Weka WekaIO 10 3,200 66.43 27.74 159.12 -
13 ISC19 DDN 400NV GRIDScaler DDN 10 30 59.49 13.55 261.21 -
14 SC18 Google Exascaler on GCP Lustre Google 120 960 47.23 23.06 96.74 -
15 SC18 JCAHPC Oakforest-PACS Lustre DDN 256 8,192 42.18 20.04 88.78 -
16 ISC18 KAUST ShaheenII Lustre Cray 1,000 16,000 41.00 54.17 31.03 -
17 ISC19 National Computational Infrastructure Australia Raijin Lustre NetApp 15 180 40.92 12.89 129.89 -
18 ISC18 JSC JURON BeeGFS ThinkparQ 8 64 35.77 14.24 89.81 -
19 ISC18 DKRZ Mistral Lustre Seagate 100 1,000 32.15 22.77 45.39 -
20 SC18 DDN Bancholab Lustre DDN 10 240 31.50 6.33 156.69 -
21 ISC19 Hewlett Packard Enterprise GTO HPE XFS Hewlett Packard Enterprise 10 200 26.21 19.57 35.11 -
22 ISC18 IBM Sonasad Spectrum Scale IBM 10 10 24.24 4.57 128.61 -
23 SC18 Clemson University ofsdev BeeGFS Dell 32 32 22.02 8.55 56.68 -
24 ISC19 Inspur BeeGFS Inspur 10 400 20.17 8.61 47.26 -
25 ISC19 Yanrong YRCloudFile YRCloudFile Yanrong 10 160 19.14 4.22 86.86 -
26 ISC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI Vast Scale-out NAS Vast Data 96 3,072 17.18 8.15 36.22 -
27 ISC18 Fraunhofer Seislab BeeGFS ThinkparQ 24 24 16.96 5.13 56.14 -
28 ISC19 Inspur TStor3000 BeeGFS Inspur 10 400 14.67 4.48 48.06 -
29 ISC19 University of Birmingham BEAR-AI Spectrum Scale DDN 10 20 12.54 2.97 52.85 -
30 ISC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI dm11 Scale-out NAS 96 960 12.45 3.22 48.16 -
31 ISC18 Joint Institute for Nuclear Research Govorun Lustre RSC 24 192 12.08 3.34 43.65 -
32 ISC19 Queen Mary University Of London Apocrita Spectrum Scale E8 10 240 11.73 4.73 29.11 -
33 ISC18 PNNL EMSL Cascade Lustre 126 252 11.12 4.88 25.33 -
34 ISC19 SUSE TigerShark CephFS SUSE, Intel, Lenovo 14 98 8.38 3.58 19.60 -
35 SC18 Clemson University Palmetto BeeGFS Dell 48 48 7.64 2.93 19.88 -
36 SC18 CERN Bytecollider CephFS 64 64 7.56 2.83 20.16 -
37 ISC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI nrs Scale out NFS Qumulo 10 320 5.95 2.59 13.69 -
38 ISC19 PGS Lustre on GCP Lustre Google 10 50 5.70 1.91 17.05 -
39 ISC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI qflash Scale out NFS Qumulo 96 960 5.32 2.80 10.11 -
40 ISC19 Queen Mary. University Of London Apocrita Spectrum Scale DDN 10 240 4.36 1.26 15.09 -
41 ISC18 SNL Serrano Spectrum Scale IBM 16 160 4.25 0.65 27.98 -
42 ISC19 JIHT RAS Desmos BeeGFS 10 60 3.55 0.51 24.88 -
43 ISC18 STFC Jasmin/Lotus NFS Purestorage 64 128 2.33 0.26 20.93 -
44 SC18 Clemson University Palmetto OrangeFS Dell 32 32 2.31 1.93 2.77 -
45 SC18 Nemours nas6 GPFS DDN 1 2 2.06 1.39 3.04 -

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 — Data Accelerator (University of Cambridge) #2 — Summit (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) #3 — Oakforest-PACS (JCAHPC) #4 — NURION (Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI)) #5 — IME140 (DDN) #6 — DDN IME140 (DDN Colorado) #7 — AI400 (DDN) #8 — bracewell (CSIRO) #9 — ShaheenII (KAUST) #10 — Data Accelerator (University of Cambridge)
  • #1 Data Accelerator University of Cambridge
  • #2 Summit Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  • #3 Oakforest-PACS JCAHPC
  • #4 NURION Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI)
  • #5 IME140 DDN
  • #6 DDN IME140 DDN Colorado
  • #7 AI400 DDN
  • #8 bracewell CSIRO
  • #9 ShaheenII KAUST
  • #10 Data Accelerator University of Cambridge