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This is the historic data list released at ISC-HPC 20. Since the IO500 benchmark has been improved to reduce the opportunity of caching, some results of the former lists cannot be directly compared to the new results. The list shows all submissions up to now.

# BoF Information IO500 Repro.
Institution System · FS Type Storage Vendor Client Nodes Total Client Proc. Score BW MD
(GiB/s) (kIOP/s)
101 SC19 CNES HAL Spectrum Scale DDN 96 96 37.16 9.71 142.20 -
102 SC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI SharedScratch Parallel Filesystem WekaIO 10 1,440 36.55 18.58 71.90 -
103 SC18 Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI) NURION IME DDN 2,048 4,096 35.97 14.06 92.03 -
104 ISC18 JSC JURON BeeGFS ThinkparQ 8 64 35.77 14.24 89.81 -
105 SC19 CNES HAL Spectrum Scale DDN 96 96 34.76 8.51 141.99 -
106 SC19 Genomics England GELous WekaIO 10 1,400 34.38 15.17 77.89 -
107 SC19 Genomics England GELous WekaIO 10 1,400 34.38 15.17 77.89 -
108 ISC20 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure BeeGFS on Oracle Cloud BeeGFS Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 10 160 32.79 14.02 76.67 -
109 ISC18 DKRZ Mistral Lustre Seagate 100 1,000 32.15 22.77 45.39 -
110 SC18 DDN Bancholab Lustre DDN 10 240 31.50 6.33 156.69 -
111 ISC20 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI SharedScratch Parallel Filesystem WekaIO 10 600 31.39 12.34 79.83 -
112 ISC20 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI SharedScratch Parallel Filesystem WekaIO 10 600 30.83 13.35 71.22 -
113 ISC18 DKRZ Mistral Lustre Seagate 100 1,200 29.33 20.35 42.29 -
114 ISC20 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure BeeGFS on Oracle Cloud BeeGFS Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 10 160 27.56 10.38 73.20 -
115 ISC20 Officinalis (1 Client) CephFS Red Hat, Intel, QCT 1 112 27.43 8.81 85.48 -
116 ISC19 CSIRO bracewell BeeGFS Dell/ThinkParQ 16 64 26.44 7.11 98.26 -
117 ISC19 Hewlett Packard Enterprise GTO HPE XFS Hewlett Packard Enterprise 10 200 26.21 19.57 35.11 -
118 SC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI sharedscratch Parallel Filesystem WekaIO 10 480 25.86 7.75 86.29 -
119 SC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI sharedscratch Parallel Filesystem WekaIO 10 480 25.46 7.65 84.69 -
120 SC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI SharedScratch Parallel Filesystem WekaIO 10 400 24.70 16.32 37.37 -
121 ISC18 IBM Sonasad Spectrum Scale IBM 10 10 24.24 4.57 128.61 -
122 ISC20 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI SharedScratch Parallel Filesystem WekaIO 10 600 24.19 11.85 49.39 -
123 SC18 Clemson University ofsdev BeeGFS Dell 32 32 22.02 8.55 56.68 -
124 SC19 Clemson University Palmetto Burstbuffer BeeGFS AdvancedHPC 10 120 21.55 12.97 35.80 -
125 ISC20 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI SharedScratch Parallel Filesystem WekaIO 10 600 21.32 11.27 40.32 -
126 ISC20 Officinalis (1 Client) CephFS Red Hat, Intel, QCT 1 112 21.24 7.87 57.32 -
127 ISC19 Inspur BeeGFS Inspur 10 400 20.17 8.61 47.26 -
128 ISC19 Yanrong YRCloudFile YRCloudFile Yanrong 10 160 19.14 4.22 86.86 -
129 ISC20 Simon Fraser University Cedar Lustre Dell/Seagate 288 288 18.72 7.66 45.75 -
130 ISC19 DDN 400NV GRIDScaler DDN 1 8 18.28 3.50 95.58 -
131 SC19 Stanford Sherlock/Fir Lustre Dell, QCT, HGST 10 240 18.25 5.23 63.74 -
132 SC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI sharedscratch Parallel Filesystem WekaIO 10 480 18.07 7.75 42.12 -
133 ISC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI Vast Scale-out NAS Vast Data 96 3,072 17.18 8.15 36.22 -
134 ISC18 Fraunhofer Seislab BeeGFS ThinkparQ 24 24 16.96 5.13 56.14 -
135 SC18 Clemson University ofsdev BeeGFS Dell 16 16 16.22 7.33 35.88 -
136 ISC20 SUSE HammerHead CephFS SUSE/Ampere/Arm 10 220 15.61 7.34 33.22 -
137 ISC18 DKRZ Mistral Lustre1 Seagate 100 1,200 15.47 12.68 18.88 -
138 SC19 University of Birmingham BEAR-AI Spectrum Scale DDN 10 80 15.39 2.74 86.48 -
139 ISC20 SUSE HammerHead CephFS SUSE/Ampere/Arm 10 220 15.38 7.04 33.57 -
140 ISC20 SUSE HammerHead CephFS SUSE/Ampere/Arm 10 200 15.07 7.05 32.21 -
141 SC19 SUSE TigerShark SUSE Enterprise Storage - CephFS SUSE, Intel, Lenovo 15 120 14.91 5.74 38.72 -
142 ISC19 Inspur TStor3000 BeeGFS Inspur 10 400 14.67 4.48 48.06 -
143 ISC20 SUSE HammerHead CephFS SUSE/Ampere/Arm 10 200 14.55 6.95 30.46 -
144 SC18 KAUST Shaheen II DataWarp Cray 10 80 13.99 14.45 13.53 -
145 SC18 Clemson University ofsdev BeeGFS Dell 16 32 13.12 3.17 54.21 -
146 SC19 Nanyang Technological University Hadley GPFS DDN 10 640 12.89 7.47 22.24 -
147 SC18 Google and DDN Lustre on GCP Lustre Google 10 80 12.82 4.30 38.23 -
148 ISC19 University of Birmingham BEAR-AI Spectrum Scale DDN 10 20 12.54 2.97 52.85 -
149 SC18 Clemson University ofsdev BeeGFS Dell 16 64 12.51 2.10 74.72 -
150 SC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI Vast Scale-out NAS Vast Data 88 2,816 12.50 8.31 18.79 -
151 ISC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI dm11 Scale-out NAS 96 960 12.45 3.22 48.16 -
152 SC19 SUSE TigerShark SUSE Enterprise Storage - CephFS SUSE, Intel, Lenovo 10 80 12.43 4.64 33.34 -
153 ISC20 National Center for Supercomputing Applications NCSA Industry System Spectrum Scale DDN/Dell 8 96 12.37 3.03 50.54 -
154 ISC18 Joint Institute for Nuclear Research Govorun Lustre RSC 24 192 12.08 3.34 43.65 -
155 ISC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI Vast Scale-out NAS Vast Data 10 480 11.96 5.64 25.37 -
156 ISC19 Queen Mary University Of London Apocrita Spectrum Scale E8 10 240 11.73 4.73 29.11 -
157 ISC20 National Center for Supercomputing Applications HAL Spectrum Scale DDN 10 100 11.31 3.62 35.37 -
158 ISC20 National Center for Supercomputing Applications NCSA Industry System Spectrum Scale DDN/Dell 8 96 11.28 3.04 41.78 -
159 ISC20 National Center for Supercomputing Applications HAL Spectrum Scale DDN 10 100 11.13 3.63 34.15 -
160 ISC18 PNNL EMSL Cascade Lustre 126 252 11.12 4.88 25.33 -
161 SC18 Clemson University ofsdev BeeGFS Dell 16 128 11.01 1.90 63.81 -
162 SC18 Clemson University ofsdev BeeGFS Dell 10 80 10.17 2.32 44.67 -
163 ISC20 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI Vast Scale-out NAS Vast Data 10 620 9.87 6.36 15.32 -
164 SC18 Queen Mary; University Of London Apocrita GPFS E8 10 240 9.65 4.32 21.55 -
165 SC18 Clemson University Palmetto BeeGFS Dell 32 32 9.42 2.94 30.19 -
166 SC19 Stanford Sherlock/Oak Lustre Dell, QCT, HGST 10 240 9.31 1.89 45.87 -
167 ISC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI dm11 Scale-out NAS 10 320 9.22 2.38 35.64 -
168 SC18 Clemson University Palmetto BeeGFS Dell 16 16 9.07 2.84 28.95 -
169 SC18 Clemson University ofsdev Lustre Dell 16 64 8.63 2.10 35.37 -
170 SC18 Clemson University ofsdev Lustre Dell 16 128 8.58 2.05 35.83 -
171 SC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI Vast Scale-out NAS Vast Data 10 480 8.45 6.16 11.60 -
172 SC19 IST Austria IST Austria HPC BeeGFS Homemade@IST 4 80 8.41 1.77 39.98 -
173 ISC19 SUSE TigerShark CephFS SUSE, Intel, Lenovo 14 98 8.38 3.58 19.60 -
174 SC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI Vast Scale-out NAS Vast Data 10 820 8.01 6.31 10.17 -
175 SC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI Vast Scale-out NAS Vast Data 10 820 8.01 6.31 10.17 -
176 ISC20 German Climate Computing Center Mistral Lustre1 Cray 10 120 7.92 2.93 21.36 -
177 SC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI Vast Scale-out NAS Vast Data 10 480 7.77 5.39 11.18 -
178 SC18 Clemson University Palmetto BeeGFS Dell 48 48 7.64 2.93 19.88 -
179 SC18 CERN Bytecollider CephFS 64 64 7.56 2.83 20.16 -
180 SC18 Clemson University ofsdev Lustre Dell 10 40 7.36 1.90 28.59 -
181 ISC19 SUSE TigerShark SUSE Enterprise Storage SUSE, Intel, Lenovo 10 70 7.32 2.48 21.60 -
182 ISC20 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI Vast Scale-out NAS Vast Data 10 620 7.27 5.96 8.86 -
183 SC18 Clemson University Palmetto BeeGFS Dell 10 10 7.14 2.32 22.05 -
184 SC19 Stanford Sherlock/Regal Lustre Dell 10 160 7.05 1.64 30.28 -
185 ISC20 German Climate Computing Center Mistral Lustre1 Cray 10 120 6.92 2.89 16.57 -
186 SC18 Clemson University Palmetto BeeGFS Dell 32 32 6.67 2.95 15.10 -
187 SC19 IST Austria IST Austria HPC BeeGFS Homemade@IST 10 100 6.63 1.39 31.62 -
188 SC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI dm11 Scale-out NAS #N/A 10 760 6.42 2.61 15.82 -
189 SC18 Clemson University Palmetto BeeGFS Dell 32 128 6.26 1.25 31.42 -
190 ISC20 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI VastTest Scale-out NAS Vast Data 10 620 6.20 3.51 10.95 -
191 SC18 Clemson University Palmetto BeeGFS Dell 32 64 6.16 1.25 30.28 -
192 SC18 Clemson University ofsdev Lustre Dell 16 32 6.07 1.34 27.56 -
193 SC18 CERN Bytecollider CephFS 64 64 6.01 2.85 12.64 -
194 ISC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI nrs Scale out NFS Qumulo 10 320 5.95 2.59 13.69 -
195 SC18 Clemson University Palmetto BeeGFS Dell 32 256 5.79 1.05 31.92 -
196 ISC19 PGS Lustre on GCP Lustre Google 10 50 5.70 1.91 17.05 -
197 ISC20 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI VastTest Scale-out NAS Vast Data 10 620 5.68 3.67 8.80 -
198 ISC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI qflash Scale out NFS Qumulo 96 960 5.32 2.80 10.11 -
199 SC18 DKRZ Mistral Lustre2 Seagate 10 80 5.32 1.05 27.06 -
200 SC18 Clemson University Palmetto BeeGFS Dell 16 16 5.08 2.24 11.49 -

Top 10 systems compared

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Score 100% Bandwidth 100% Metadata 100% Clients 100% Processes 100% #101 — HAL (CNES) #102 — SharedScratch (Janelia Research Campus, HHMI) #103 — NURION (Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI)) #104 — JURON (JSC) #105 — HAL (CNES) #106 — GELous (Genomics England) #107 — GELous (Genomics England) #108 — BeeGFS on Oracle Cloud (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure) #109 — Mistral (DKRZ) #110 — Bancholab (DDN)
  • #101 HAL CNES
  • #102 SharedScratch Janelia Research Campus, HHMI
  • #103 NURION Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI)
  • #104 JURON JSC
  • #105 HAL CNES
  • #106 GELous Genomics England
  • #107 GELous Genomics England
  • #108 BeeGFS on Oracle Cloud Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
  • #109 Mistral DKRZ
  • #110 Bancholab DDN