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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.
# Information IO500
BoF Institution System Storage Vendor File System Type Client Nodes Total Client Proc. Score BW MD Repro.
(GiB/s) (kIOP/s)
101 ISC20 Simon Fraser University Cedar Dell/Seagate Lustre 288 288 18.72 7.66 45.75 -
102 SC24 MEGWARE Lustre + xiRAID Classic MEGWARE Lustre 10 280 262.33 86.15 798.80
103 SC24 Gesellschaft fur wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung Emmy Clyso CephFS 18 270 32.17 11.92 86.81
104 SC19 CSIRO bracewell scratch2 Dell/ThinkParQ beegfs 26 260 94.86 69.10 130.23 -
105 SC22 Mohamed bin Zayed University CIAI Q-Leap Networks GmbH / HPCME Lustre 16 256 62.40 22.22 175.23 -
106 SC21 ULHPC Aion DDN SpectrumScale 128 256 11.35 1.80 71.57 -
107 SC22 China Telecom Research Institute CTPAI CTCLOUD DAOS 10 250 212.29 31.40 1,435.19 -
108 ISC24 Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz MOGON-NHR N/A GekkoFS 10 240 281.96 48.21 1,649.25
109 SC20 Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz MOGON II JGU (ADA-FS)& BSC (NEXTGenIO) GekkoFS 10 240 167.64 22.97 1,223.59 -
110 ISC21 University of Tsukuba Cygnus OSS CHFS 10 240 148.69 30.39 727.61 -
111 ISC24 Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center Altair xFiusion Lustre 15 240 73.50 15.24 354.60
112 SC19 DDN AI400 DDN Lustre 10 240 63.88 19.65 207.63 -
113 ISC21 Georgia Institute of Technology PACE-Phoenix DDN Lustre 10 240 17.07 4.52 64.48 -
114 SC24 IBM Ehningen System DACH Storage Scale System 6000 IBM IBM Storage Scale 5.2.2-0 (early pre-GA build) with ESS 6.2.1-0 10 200 192.39 127.51 290.30
115 SC23 IBM Ehningen System DACH Storage Scale System 3500 IBM IBM Storage Scale 10 200 166.25 87.14 317.17
116 SC24 IBM Tucson Saguaro Storage Scale System 6000 IBM IBM Storage Scale 5.2.2-0 (early pre-GA build) with ESS 6.2.1-0 10 200 157.65 106.89 232.53
117 SC23 IBM Tucson Arches Storage Scale System 3500 IBM IBM Storage Scale 10 200 136.35 74.18 250.64
118 ISC21 Joint Institute of Nuclear Research Govorun RSC DAOS 10 160 132.07 20.19 863.69 -
119 SC23 Center for Research Informatics at University of Chicago Randi IBM Spectrum Scale 10 160 60.88 31.05 119.36
120 ISC23 Arizona State University Sol Dell BeeGFS 10 160 16.48 4.40 61.76
121 SC19 Stanford Sherlock/Regal Dell Lustre 10 160 7.05 1.64 30.28 -
122 SC22 Omnibond OrangeFS-Google Omnibond-Google OrangeFS 10 150 9.92 4.27 23.08 -
123 SC19 Clemson University Palmetto Burstbuffer AdvancedHPC BeeGFS 10 120 21.55 12.97 35.80 -
124 SC19 SUSE TigerShark SUSE, Intel, Lenovo SUSE Enterprise Storage - CephFS 15 120 14.91 5.74 38.72 -
125 ISC20 National Center for Supercomputing Applications HAL DDN Spectrum Scale 10 100 11.31 3.62 35.37 -
126 SC19 CNES HAL DDN Spectrum Scale 96 96 37.16 9.71 142.20 -
127 SC21 GWDG SCC BeeGFS 10 80 12.55 2.63 59.85 -
128 SC20 EPCC Archer 2 (test system) Cray Lustre 10 80 10.68 2.63 43.43 -
129 ISC23 Panasas PanEast ActiveStor Flash Panasas Panfs 10 80 10.57 4.49 24.90
130 ISC23 Panasas PanEast ActiveStor UltraXL Panasas Panfs 10 80 6.25 1.86 21.01
131 ISC21 DKRZ Mistral Seagate/Cray Lustre 10 80 5.22 1.16 23.50 -
132 SC23 Eikon Therapeutics spt-compute1 Qumulo Qumulo Core 20 40 7.58 2.82 20.38 -
133 SC23 LCPQ Ampere Home made BeeGFS 10 30 6.65 1.22 36.16
134 SC20 University of Tsukuba Cygnus OSS Gfarm 10 20 16.12 8.10 32.09 -
135 SC21 IBMDL Sandbox IBM SpectrumScale 10 0 3.17 0.61 16.57 -