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Full ISC23 List

Subset of the Historic list of submissions that satisfy the existing IO500 submission guidelines.
# BoF Information IO500 Repro.
Institution System · FS Type Storage Vendor Client Nodes Total Client Proc. Score BW MD
(GiB/s) (kIOP/s)
201 ISC20 National Center for Supercomputing Applications HAL Spectrum Scale DDN 10 100 11.31 3.62 35.37 -
202 ISC20 National Center for Supercomputing Applications NCSA Industry System Spectrum Scale DDN/Dell 8 96 11.28 3.04 41.78 -
203 ISC20 National Center for Supercomputing Applications HAL Spectrum Scale DDN 10 100 11.13 3.63 34.15 -
204 SC20 EPCC Archer 2 (test system) Lustre Cray 10 80 10.68 2.63 43.43 -
205 SC20 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI Vast Scale-out NAS Vast Data 10 260 10.64 7.44 15.22 -
206 ISC23 Panasas PanEast ActiveStor Flash Panfs Panasas 10 80 10.57 4.49 24.90
207 SC22 Omnibond OrangeFS-Google OrangeFS Omnibond-Google 10 150 9.92 4.27 23.08 -
208 ISC20 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI Vast Scale-out NAS Vast Data 10 620 9.87 6.36 15.32 -
209 ISC22 Omnibond OrangeFS-Google OrangeFS Omnibond-Google 10 150 9.82 4.40 21.92 -
210 SC19 Stanford Sherlock/Oak Lustre Dell, QCT, HGST 10 240 9.31 1.89 45.87 -
211 SC19 IST Austria IST Austria HPC BeeGFS Homemade@IST 4 80 8.41 1.77 39.98 -
212 SC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI Vast Scale-out NAS Vast Data 10 820 8.01 6.31 10.17 -
213 ISC20 German Climate Computing Center Mistral Lustre1 Cray 10 120 7.92 2.93 21.36 -
214 ISC20 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI Vast Scale-out NAS Vast Data 10 620 7.27 5.96 8.86 -
215 SC19 Stanford Sherlock/Regal Lustre Dell 10 160 7.05 1.64 30.28 -
216 ISC20 German Climate Computing Center Mistral Lustre1 Cray 10 120 6.92 2.89 16.57 -
217 SC19 IST Austria IST Austria HPC BeeGFS Homemade@IST 10 100 6.63 1.39 31.62 -
218 SC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI dm11 Scale-out NAS #N/A 10 760 6.42 2.61 15.82 -
219 ISC23 Panasas PanEast ActiveStor UltraXL Panfs Panasas 10 80 6.25 1.86 21.01
220 SC20 University of Reading ThunderX2 Local file system 1 16 6.23 0.37 104.54 -
221 ISC20 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI VastTest Scale-out NAS Vast Data 10 620 6.20 3.51 10.95 -
222 ISC20 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI VastTest Scale-out NAS Vast Data 10 620 5.68 3.67 8.80 -
223 ISC21 DKRZ Mistral Lustre Seagate/Cray 10 80 5.22 1.16 23.50 -
224 ISC20 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI VastTest Scale-out NAS Vast Data 10 620 4.98 3.56 6.96 -
225 SC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI nrs Scale-out NAS Qumulo 10 760 4.19 2.88 6.11 -
226 SC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI nearline4 Scale-out NAS Qumulo 10 760 3.67 2.45 5.49 -
227 SC21 IBMDL Sandbox SpectrumScale IBM 10 0 3.17 0.61 16.57 -
228 ISC20 LNCC SDumont Lustre Cay/HPE 10 240 3.06 2.32 4.02 -
229 ISC23 XF_Lab XF_computer XF_Stor XF_Stor 2 128 0.58 0.33 1.03

Top 10 systems compared

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Score 100% Bandwidth 100% Metadata 100% Clients 100% Processes 100% #201 — HAL (National Center for Supercomputing Applications) #202 — NCSA Industry System (National Center for Supercomputing Applications) #203 — HAL (National Center for Supercomputing Applications) #204 — Archer 2 (test system) (EPCC) #205 — Vast (Janelia Research Campus, HHMI) #206 — PanEast ActiveStor Flash (Panasas ) #207 — OrangeFS-Google (Omnibond) #208 — Vast (Janelia Research Campus, HHMI) #209 — OrangeFS-Google (Omnibond) #210 — Sherlock/Oak (Stanford)
  • #201 HAL National Center for Supercomputing Applications
  • #202 NCSA Industry System National Center for Supercomputing Applications
  • #203 HAL National Center for Supercomputing Applications
  • #204 Archer 2 (test system) EPCC
  • #205 Vast Janelia Research Campus, HHMI
  • #206 PanEast ActiveStor Flash Panasas
  • #207 OrangeFS-Google Omnibond
  • #208 Vast Janelia Research Campus, HHMI
  • #209 OrangeFS-Google Omnibond
  • #210 Sherlock/Oak Stanford