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Research ISC25 List

Ranking of the research system submissions. This is a subset of the Full List of submissions, showing only one highest-scoring result per storage system. This list also contains all valid IO500 submissions prior to the creation of the Research List.
# BoF Information IO500 Repro.
Institution System · FS Type Storage Vendor Client Nodes Total Client Proc. Score BW MD
(GiB/s) (kIOP/s)
1 ISC23 Pengcheng Laboratory Pengcheng Cloudbrain-II on Atlas 900 SuperFS Pengcheng Laboratory and Tsinghua University 300 36,000 210,255.00 4,847.48 9,119,612.35
2 ISC23 JNIST and HUST PDSL Cheeloo-1 with OceanStor Pacific OceanFS2 Huawei 10 9,600 137,100.00 2,439.37 7,705,448.04
3 SC23 Argonne National Laboratory Aurora DAOS Intel 300 31,200 43,218.80 11,362.27 164,391.73
4 SC22 Sugon Cloud Storage Laboratory ParaStor ParaStor Sugon 10 2,560 8,726.42 718.11 106,042.93 -
5 SC22 SuPro Storteck StarStor StarStor SuPro Storteck 10 2,560 6,751.75 515.15 88,491.65 -
6 SC22 Tsinghua Storage Research Group SuperStore SuperFS Tsinghua Storage Research Group 10 1,200 5,517.73 179.60 169,515.95 -
7 SC23 LRZ SuperMUC-NG-Phase2 DAOS Lenovo 90 6,480 4,585.68 1,054.72 19,937.45
8 ISC22 National Supercomputing Center in Jinan Shanhe flashfs PDSL 10 2,560 3,534.42 207.79 60,119.50 -
9 SC22 Cloudam HPC on OCI HPC-OCI BurstFS Cloudam 64 1,920 3,033.03 278.48 33,033.54 -
10 SC21 Huawei HPDA Lab Athena OceanFS Huawei 10 1,720 2,395.03 314.56 18,235.71 -
11 SC21 Olympus Lab OceanStor Pacific OceanFS Huawei 10 1,720 2,298.69 317.07 16,664.88 -
12 SC21 Huawei Cloud Flashfs PDSL 15 1,560 2,016.70 109.82 37,034.00 -
13 ISC21 Intel Endeavour DAOS Intel 10 1,440 1,859.56 398.77 8,671.65 -
14 ISC20 Intel Wolf DAOS Intel 52 1,664 1,792.98 371.67 8,649.57 -
15 ISC24 Institute of Computing Technology Chinese Academy of Sciences and National Supercomputing Center in Zhengzhou Songshan HiStore Institute of Computing Technology Chinese Academy of Sciences 10 320 1,349.22 43.78 41,580.79
16 ISC22 University of Cambridge Cumulus DAOS Dell/Intel 200 2,000 1,107.17 283.19 4,328.68 -
17 SC22 Meadowgate Technologies Meadowgate DAOS INTEL HPE 10 1,280 1,014.24 213.15 4,826.12 -
18 ISC21 Lenovo Lenovo-Lenox DAOS Lenovo 36 3,456 988.99 176.37 5,545.61 -
19 SC21 BPFS Lab Kongming BPFS 10 800 972.60 96.26 9,827.09 -
20 SC19 WekaIO WekaIO on AWS WekaIO Matrix WekaIO 345 8,625 938.95 174.74 5,045.33 -
21 SC23 King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Shaheen III Lustre HPE 2,080 16,640 797.04 709.52 895.35
22 ISC20 TACC Frontera DAOS Intel 60 1,440 763.80 78.31 7,449.56 -
23 ISC23 EuroHPC-CINECA Leonardo EXAScaler DDN 2,000 16,000 648.96 807.12 521.79
24 ISC22 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Oracle Cloud with WEKA on RDMA WEKA WekaIO 373 7,460 625.95 233.17 1,680.38 -
25 ISC22 Lenovo Lenovo-Lenox3 DAOS Lenovo 20 1,440 624.59 145.12 2,688.20 -
26 SC23 IBM Cloud HPC BlueStorm IBM Storage Scale IBM 199 1,990 618.92 440.99 868.63
27 ISC21 National Supercomputer Center in GuangZhou Venus2 kapok National Supercomputer Center in GuangZhou 18 720 577.93 104.52 3,195.53 -
28 ISC21 Google Cloud Google Lustre DDN 1,000 5,000 569.99 282.78 1,148.90 -
29 ISC20 Argonne National Laboratory Presque DAOS Argonne National Laboratory 16 544 537.31 108.19 2,668.57 -
30 SC21 National Research Center of Tranlational Medicine at Shanghai Ruijin Hospital ASTRA DAOS NRCTM 10 360 511.02 87.50 2,984.61 -
31 ISC23 University of Tsukuba Pegasus CHFS OSS 10 480 484.41 98.24 2,388.60
32 SC19 National Supercomputing Center in Changsha Tianhe-2E Lustre National University of Defense Technology 480 5,280 453.68 209.43 982.78 -
33 ISC25 UW-Madison NetLab Research Group MadRacks Testbed GluonFS NetLab 10 620 433.04 73.48 2,551.88
34 ISC23 Intel Borealis DAOS Intel 10 1,040 431.43 125.21 1,486.53
35 SC21 QCT DevCloud QCT DevCloud DAOS QCT 10 560 427.27 102.85 1,774.97 -
36 ISC21 Supermicro DAOS Supermicro 10 1,120 415.04 112.17 1,535.63 -
37 ISC23 DSAL HPStore HPFS SITONHOLY 10 420 392.14 38.95 3,948.47
38 ISC22 Lenovo Lenovo-Lenox3 DAOS Lenovo 20 1,440 372.26 109.76 1,262.54 -
39 ISC24 Zuse Institute Berlin Lise DAOS Megware 10 960 324.54 65.01 1,620.13
40 SC23 Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center IRIS WekaIO WekaIO 36 4,248 308.94 104.79 910.80
41 ISC20 Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI) NURION IME DDN 2,048 2,048 282.45 515.59 154.74 -
42 ISC24 Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz MOGON-NHR GekkoFS N/A 10 240 281.96 48.21 1,649.25
43 ISC21 University of Florida HiPerGator Lustre DDN 140 4,480 269.59 181.37 400.73 -
44 ISC20 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure BeeGFS on Oracle Cloud BeeGFS Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 270 3,240 267.25 293.05 243.73 -
45 SC24 MEGWARE Lustre + xiRAID Classic Lustre MEGWARE 10 280 262.33 86.15 798.80
46 ISC22 University of Cambridge Cumulus Lustre Dell 200 2,000 261.39 92.64 737.54 -
47 SC20 JCAHPC Oakforest-PACS IME DDN 2,048 4,096 253.57 697.20 92.22 -
48 SC19 NVIDIA DGX-2H SuperPOD Lustre DDN 10 400 249.50 86.97 715.76 -
49 ISC23 DDN AI400X2-II EXAScaler DDN 10 1,280 240.85 51.46 1,127.22
50 SC20 EPCC NextGENIO GekkoFS BSC & JGU 10 3,800 239.37 45.79 1,251.32 -
51 SC19 University of Cambridge Data Accelerator Lustre Dell EMC 128 2,048 229.45 131.25 401.13 -
52 ISC21 Olympus Storage Technology Innovation Lab OceanStor OceanFS Huawei 10 960 220.10 69.49 697.15 -
53 ISC22 Wu Dong Laboratory Wu Dong Compute Cluster OPENFS Wu Dong Laboratory 10 640 218.81 43.86 1,091.49 -
54 SC22 China Telecom Research Institute CTPAI DAOS CTCLOUD 10 250 212.29 31.40 1,435.19 -
55 ISC23 Intel Florence DAOS Intel 10 1,120 211.34 31.00 1,440.73
56 SC19 CEA Tera-1000 Lustre DDN 128 4,096 210.26 81.01 545.74 -
57 ISC21 LuxProvide MeluXina Lustre DDN 512 12,288 194.12 112.06 336.25 -
58 SC24 IBM Ehningen System DACH Storage Scale System 6000 IBM Storage Scale 5.2.2-0 (early pre-GA build) with ESS 6.2.1-0 IBM 10 200 192.39 127.51 290.30
59 ISC24 NHN Cloud Corporation NHN CLOUD GWANGJU AI EXAScaler DDN 10 640 176.57 62.58 498.22
60 SC20 Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz MOGON II GekkoFS JGU (ADA-FS)& BSC (NEXTGenIO) 10 240 167.64 22.97 1,223.59 -
61 SC23 IBM Ehningen System DACH Storage Scale System 3500 IBM Storage Scale IBM 10 200 166.25 87.14 317.17
62 SC24 Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Leonardo Expand ARCOS-UC3M 10 640 158.23 57.26 437.25
63 SC24 IBM Tucson Saguaro Storage Scale System 6000 IBM Storage Scale 5.2.2-0 (early pre-GA build) with ESS 6.2.1-0 IBM 10 200 157.65 106.89 232.53
64 ISC24 ACC Cyfronet AGH Helios Lustre HPE 80 640 153.39 122.31 192.36
65 ISC21 University of Tsukuba Cygnus CHFS OSS 10 240 148.69 30.39 727.61 -
66 ISC23 DDN AI400X2-I EXAScaler DDN 10 320 142.03 33.43 603.39
67 ISC20 DDN AI400X Lustre DDN 40 1,280 137.03 46.84 400.84 -
68 SC23 IBM Tucson Arches Storage Scale System 3500 IBM Storage Scale IBM 10 200 136.35 74.18 250.64
69 SC20 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI SharedScratch Parallel Filesystem WekaIO 48 1,248 134.09 48.03 374.40 -
70 ISC21 Joint Institute of Nuclear Research Govorun DAOS RSC 10 160 132.07 20.19 863.69 -
71 ISC25 DDN AI400X2-I EXAScaler DDN 10 1,280 126.73 38.70 414.98
72 ISC23 Riken R-CCS Riken-FX700 DAOS Intel 10 480 126.10 21.39 743.47
73 SC20 Joint Supercomputer Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences MVS10POP2 Lustre RSC Group 54 864 125.50 45.31 347.61 -
74 ISC23 Imperial College London Imperial - hx cluster Spectrum scale Lenovo 32 512 119.56 44.63 320.31
75 SC24 Centre for Development of Advanced Computing RUDRA DAOS Intel 10 480 119.23 22.23 639.59
76 ISC25 DDN AI400X2-I-k8s EXAScaler DDN 10 1,280 115.51 39.26 339.89
77 ISC24 Centre de Recherche en Aeronautique Lucia Storage Scale IBM 256 1,024 115.06 54.74 241.83
78 ISC24 DDN AI400X2T EXAScaler DDN 10 640 109.84 34.24 352.35
79 ISC24 University of Virginia Afton WEKA Dell 10 850 105.94 33.28 337.29
80 SC23 Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology Earth Simulator 4 EXAScaler DDN 10 320 101.88 48.19 215.38
81 ISC20 CSIRO bracewell Lustre Dell/DDN 10 400 99.64 39.90 248.81 -
82 SC19 CSIRO bracewell scratch2 beegfs Dell/ThinkParQ 26 260 94.86 69.10 130.23 -
83 ISC20 JINR Govorun Lustre RSC Group 50 800 90.87 35.61 231.88 -
84 SC21 Raytheon MCK-HPC WekaFS Penguin Computing 44 1,584 86.24 27.64 269.10 -
85 SC21 NLHPC Guacolda SpectrumScale IBM 24 480 83.18 33.87 204.27 -
86 SC19 State Key Laboratory of High-end Server & Storage Technology (HSS) TStor3000 BeeGFS INSPUR 10 300 82.57 41.14 165.71 -
87 SC20 NASA hyperwall4 SSD Intel. SK-Hynx 128 1,024 75.75 122.24 46.94 -
88 ISC24 Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center Altair Lustre xFiusion 15 240 73.50 15.24 354.60
89 ISC20 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure SpectrumScale on Oracle Cloud Spectrum Scale Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 48 768 70.91 34.91 144.06 -
90 SC21 CQ Narval Lustre Dell 640 640 68.31 32.74 142.53 -
91 SC19 Google Cloud EXA5-GCP-PD-SSD Lustre Google Cloud 200 1,600 67.78 26.93 170.61 -
92 ISC20 SPbPU Polytechnic RSC Tornado Lustre RSC Group 59 944 64.29 21.56 191.73 -
93 SC19 DDN AI400 Lustre DDN 10 240 63.88 19.65 207.63 -
94 ISC25 Hammerspace Hammerspace Performance Lab pNFS v4.2 via Hammerspace Anvil Metadata Service Hammerspace 10 640 63.77 37.25 109.16
95 ISC21 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia Research Campus Janelia Weka.io Weka.io 10 300 62.68 18.17 216.22 -
96 SC22 Mohamed bin Zayed University CIAI Lustre Q-Leap Networks GmbH / HPCME 16 256 62.40 22.22 175.23 -
97 SC23 Center for Research Informatics at University of Chicago Randi Spectrum Scale IBM 10 160 60.88 31.05 119.36
98 ISC20 Red Hat EC2-10xi3en.metal CephFS Red Hat 10 320 57.17 26.29 124.30 -
99 ISC24 Saudi ARAMCO CSSP EXAScaler DDN 93 744 55.11 38.14 79.63
100 SC19 Google Cloud EXA5-GCP-PD-STD Lustre Google Cloud 200 1,600 52.96 17.31 162.06 -

Top 10 systems compared

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Score 100% Bandwidth 100% Metadata 100% Clients 100% Processes 100% #1 — Pengcheng Cloudbrain-II on Atlas 900 (Pengcheng Laboratory) #2 — Cheeloo-1 with OceanStor Pacific (JNIST and HUST PDSL) #3 — Aurora (Argonne National Laboratory) #4 — ParaStor (Sugon Cloud Storage Laboratory) #5 — StarStor (SuPro Storteck) #6 — SuperStore (Tsinghua Storage Research Group) #7 — SuperMUC-NG-Phase2 (LRZ) #8 — Shanhe (National Supercomputing Center in Jinan) #9 — HPC-OCI (Cloudam HPC on OCI) #10 — Athena (Huawei HPDA Lab)
  • #1 Pengcheng Cloudbrain-II on Atlas 900 Pengcheng Laboratory
  • #2 Cheeloo-1 with OceanStor Pacific JNIST and HUST PDSL
  • #3 Aurora Argonne National Laboratory
  • #4 ParaStor Sugon Cloud Storage Laboratory
  • #5 StarStor SuPro Storteck
  • #6 SuperStore Tsinghua Storage Research Group
  • #7 SuperMUC-NG-Phase2 LRZ
  • #8 Shanhe National Supercomputing Center in Jinan
  • #9 HPC-OCI Cloudam HPC on OCI
  • #10 Athena Huawei HPDA Lab