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This is the official list from ISC High Performance 2020. The list shows the best result for a given combination of system/institution/filesystem.

Please also see the other lists: 10 Node, Full list, Historic list

# BoF Information IO500 Repro.
Institution System · FS Type Storage Vendor Client Nodes Total Client Proc. Score BW MD
(GiB/s) (kIOP/s)
1 ISC20 Intel Wolf DAOS Intel 52 1,664 1,792.98 371.67 8,649.57 -
2 SC19 WekaIO WekaIO on AWS WekaIO Matrix WekaIO 345 8,625 938.95 174.74 5,045.33 -
3 ISC20 TACC Frontera DAOS Intel 60 1,440 763.80 78.31 7,449.56 -
4 ISC20 Argonne National Laboratory Presque DAOS Argonne National Laboratory 16 544 537.31 108.19 2,668.57 -
5 SC19 National Supercomputing Center in Changsha Tianhe-2E Lustre National University of Defense Technology 480 5,280 453.68 209.43 982.78 -
6 ISC20 Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI) NURION IME DDN 2,048 2,048 282.45 515.59 154.74 -
7 ISC20 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure BeeGFS on Oracle Cloud BeeGFS Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 270 3,240 267.25 293.05 243.73 -
8 SC19 NVIDIA DGX-2H SuperPOD Lustre DDN 10 400 249.50 86.97 715.76 -
9 SC19 University of Cambridge Data Accelerator Lustre Dell EMC 128 2,048 229.45 131.25 401.13 -
10 SC19 CEA Tera-1000 Lustre DDN 128 4,096 210.26 81.01 545.74 -
11 ISC20 JCAHPC Oakforest-PACS IME DDN 512 4,096 175.85 348.95 88.62 -
12 ISC20 EPCC NextGENIO GekkoFS NextGenIO (BSC & JGU) 10 280 152.30 24.83 934.12 -
13 ISC20 DDN AI400X Lustre DDN 40 1,280 137.03 46.84 400.84 -
14 ISC20 CSIRO bracewell Lustre Dell/DDN 10 400 99.64 39.90 248.81 -
15 ISC20 Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz MOGON II GekkoFS JGU (ADA-FS)& BSC (NEXTGenIO) 10 160 96.46 11.61 801.60 -
16 SC19 CSIRO bracewell scratch2 beegfs Dell/ThinkParQ 26 260 94.86 69.10 130.23 -
17 ISC20 JINR Govorun Lustre RSC Group 50 800 90.87 35.61 231.88 -
18 SC19 State Key Laboratory of High-end Server & Storage Technology (HSS) TStor3000 BeeGFS INSPUR 10 300 82.57 41.14 165.71 -
19 ISC20 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure SpectrumScale on Oracle Cloud Spectrum Scale Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 48 768 70.91 34.91 144.06 -
20 SC19 Google Cloud EXA5-GCP-PD-SSD Lustre Google Cloud 200 1,600 67.78 26.93 170.61 -
21 ISC20 Officinalis CephFS Red Hat, Intel, QCT 8 256 66.88 28.58 156.48 -
22 ISC20 SPbPU Polytechnic RSC Tornado Lustre RSC Group 59 944 64.29 21.56 191.73 -
23 SC19 DDN AI400 Lustre DDN 10 240 63.88 19.65 207.63 -
24 ISC20 Red Hat EC2-10xi3en.metal CephFS Red Hat 10 320 57.17 26.29 124.30 -
25 SC19 Google Cloud EXA5-GCP-PD-STD Lustre Google Cloud 200 1,600 52.96 17.31 162.06 -
26 SC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI SharedScratch wekaio WekaIO 18 1,368 48.75 26.22 90.62 -
27 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 -
28 SC19 Penguin Computing Benchmarking and Innovation Lab Penguin-ASG-NVBeeOne BeeGFS Penguin Computing/Excelero 10 320 39.65 17.71 88.76 -
29 SC19 CNES HAL Spectrum Scale DDN 96 96 34.76 8.51 141.99 -
30 ISC20 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI SharedScratch Parallel Filesystem WekaIO 10 600 31.39 12.34 79.83 -
31 ISC20 Officinalis (1 Client) CephFS Red Hat, Intel, QCT 1 112 27.43 8.81 85.48 -
32 SC19 Clemson University Palmetto Burstbuffer BeeGFS AdvancedHPC 10 120 21.55 12.97 35.80 -
33 ISC20 Simon Fraser University Cedar Lustre Dell/Seagate 288 288 18.72 7.66 45.75 -
34 SC19 SUSE TigerShark SUSE Enterprise Storage - CephFS SUSE, Intel, Lenovo 15 120 14.91 5.74 38.72 -
35 SC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI Vast Scale-out NAS Vast Data 88 2,816 12.50 8.31 18.79 -
36 ISC20 National Center for Supercomputing Applications NCSA Industry System Spectrum Scale DDN/Dell 8 96 12.37 3.03 50.54 -
37 ISC20 National Center for Supercomputing Applications HAL Spectrum Scale DDN 10 100 11.31 3.62 35.37 -
38 SC19 IST Austria IST Austria HPC BeeGFS Homemade@IST 4 80 8.41 1.77 39.98 -
39 SC19 Stanford Sherlock/Regal Lustre Dell 10 160 7.05 1.64 30.28 -
40 SC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI dm11 Scale-out NAS #N/A 10 760 6.42 2.61 15.82 -
41 SC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI nrs Scale-out NAS Qumulo 10 760 4.19 2.88 6.11 -
42 SC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI nearline4 Scale-out NAS Qumulo 10 760 3.67 2.45 5.49 -

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 — Wolf (Intel) #2 — WekaIO on AWS (WekaIO) #3 — Frontera (TACC) #4 — Presque (Argonne National Laboratory) #5 — Tianhe-2E (National Supercomputing Center in Changsha) #6 — NURION (Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI)) #7 — BeeGFS on Oracle Cloud (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure) #8 — DGX-2H SuperPOD (NVIDIA) #9 — Data Accelerator (University of Cambridge) #10 — Tera-1000 (CEA)
  • #1 Wolf Intel
  • #2 WekaIO on AWS WekaIO
  • #3 Frontera TACC
  • #4 Presque Argonne National Laboratory
  • #5 Tianhe-2E National Supercomputing Center in Changsha
  • #6 NURION Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI)
  • #7 BeeGFS on Oracle Cloud Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
  • #8 DGX-2H SuperPOD NVIDIA
  • #9 Data Accelerator University of Cambridge
  • #10 Tera-1000 CEA