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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) | ||||||||||
| 1 | SC23 | King Abdullah University of Science and Technology | Shaheen III | HPE | Lustre | 2,080 | 16,640 | 797.04 | 709.52 | 895.35 | |
| 2 | ISC20 | Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI) | NURION | DDN | IME | 2,048 | 2,048 | 282.45 | 515.59 | 154.74 | - |
| 3 | SC20 | JCAHPC | Oakforest-PACS | DDN | IME | 2,048 | 4,096 | 253.57 | 697.20 | 92.22 | - |
| 4 | ISC23 | EuroHPC-CINECA | Leonardo | DDN | EXAScaler | 2,000 | 16,000 | 648.96 | 807.12 | 521.79 | |
| 5 | ISC21 | Google Cloud | DDN | Lustre | 1,000 | 5,000 | 569.99 | 282.78 | 1,148.90 | - | |
| 6 | SC21 | CQ | Narval | Dell | Lustre | 640 | 640 | 68.31 | 32.74 | 142.53 | - |
| 7 | ISC21 | LuxProvide | MeluXina | DDN | Lustre | 512 | 12,288 | 194.12 | 112.06 | 336.25 | - |
| 8 | SC19 | National Supercomputing Center in Changsha | Tianhe-2E | National University of Defense Technology | Lustre | 480 | 5,280 | 453.68 | 209.43 | 982.78 | - |
| 9 | ISC22 | Oracle Cloud Infrastructure | Oracle Cloud with WEKA on RDMA | WekaIO | WEKA | 373 | 7,460 | 625.95 | 233.17 | 1,680.38 | - |
| 10 | SC19 | WekaIO | WekaIO on AWS | WekaIO | WekaIO Matrix | 345 | 8,625 | 938.95 | 174.74 | 5,045.33 | - |
| 11 | ISC23 | Pengcheng Laboratory | Pengcheng Cloudbrain-II on Atlas 900 | Pengcheng Laboratory and Tsinghua University | SuperFS | 300 | 36,000 | 210,255.00 | 4,847.48 | 9,119,612.35 | |
| 12 | SC23 | Argonne National Laboratory | Aurora | Intel | DAOS | 300 | 31,200 | 43,218.80 | 11,362.27 | 164,391.73 | |
| 13 | ISC20 | Simon Fraser University | Cedar | Dell/Seagate | Lustre | 288 | 288 | 18.72 | 7.66 | 45.75 | - |
| 14 | ISC20 | Oracle Cloud Infrastructure | BeeGFS on Oracle Cloud | Oracle Cloud Infrastructure | BeeGFS | 270 | 3,240 | 267.25 | 293.05 | 243.73 | - |
| 15 | ISC24 | Centre de Recherche en Aeronautique | Lucia | IBM | Storage Scale | 256 | 1,024 | 115.06 | 54.74 | 241.83 | |
| 16 | ISC22 | University of Cambridge | Cumulus | Dell/Intel | DAOS | 200 | 2,000 | 1,107.17 | 283.19 | 4,328.68 | - |
| 17 | ISC22 | University of Cambridge | Cumulus | Dell | Lustre | 200 | 2,000 | 261.39 | 92.64 | 737.54 | - |
| 18 | SC19 | Google Cloud | EXA5-GCP-PD-SSD | Google Cloud | Lustre | 200 | 1,600 | 67.78 | 26.93 | 170.61 | - |
| 19 | SC19 | Google Cloud | EXA5-GCP-PD-STD | Google Cloud | Lustre | 200 | 1,600 | 52.96 | 17.31 | 162.06 | - |
| 20 | SC23 | IBM Cloud HPC | BlueStorm | IBM | IBM Storage Scale | 199 | 1,990 | 618.92 | 440.99 | 868.63 | |
| 21 | ISC21 | University of Florida | HiPerGator | DDN | Lustre | 140 | 4,480 | 269.59 | 181.37 | 400.73 | - |
| 22 | SC19 | University of Cambridge | Data Accelerator | Dell EMC | Lustre | 128 | 2,048 | 229.45 | 131.25 | 401.13 | - |
| 23 | SC19 | CEA | Tera-1000 | DDN | Lustre | 128 | 4,096 | 210.26 | 81.01 | 545.74 | - |
| 24 | SC20 | NASA | hyperwall4 | Intel. SK-Hynx | SSD | 128 | 1,024 | 75.75 | 122.24 | 46.94 | - |
| 25 | SC21 | ULHPC | Aion | DDN | SpectrumScale | 128 | 256 | 11.35 | 1.80 | 71.57 | - |
| 26 | SC19 | CNES | HAL | DDN | Spectrum Scale | 96 | 96 | 37.16 | 9.71 | 142.20 | - |
| 27 | ISC24 | Saudi ARAMCO | CSSP | DDN | EXAScaler | 93 | 744 | 55.11 | 38.14 | 79.63 | |
| 28 | SC23 | LRZ | SuperMUC-NG-Phase2 | Lenovo | DAOS | 90 | 6,480 | 4,585.68 | 1,054.72 | 19,937.45 | |
| 29 | SC19 | Janelia Research Campus, HHMI | Vast | Vast Data | Scale-out NAS | 88 | 2,816 | 12.50 | 8.31 | 18.79 | - |
| 30 | ISC24 | ACC Cyfronet AGH | Helios | HPE | Lustre | 80 | 640 | 153.39 | 122.31 | 192.36 | |
| 31 | SC22 | Cloudam HPC on OCI | HPC-OCI | Cloudam | BurstFS | 64 | 1,920 | 3,033.03 | 278.48 | 33,033.54 | - |
| 32 | ISC20 | TACC | Frontera | Intel | DAOS | 60 | 1,440 | 763.80 | 78.31 | 7,449.56 | - |
| 33 | ISC20 | SPbPU | Polytechnic RSC Tornado | RSC Group | Lustre | 59 | 944 | 64.29 | 21.56 | 191.73 | - |
| 34 | SC20 | Joint Supercomputer Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences | MVS10POP2 | RSC Group | Lustre | 54 | 864 | 125.50 | 45.31 | 347.61 | - |
| 35 | ISC20 | Intel | Wolf | Intel | DAOS | 52 | 1,664 | 1,792.98 | 371.67 | 8,649.57 | - |
| 36 | ISC20 | JINR | Govorun | RSC Group | Lustre | 50 | 800 | 90.87 | 35.61 | 231.88 | - |
| 37 | SC20 | Janelia Research Campus, HHMI | SharedScratch | WekaIO | Parallel Filesystem | 48 | 1,248 | 134.09 | 48.03 | 374.40 | - |
| 38 | ISC20 | Oracle Cloud Infrastructure | SpectrumScale on Oracle Cloud | Oracle Cloud Infrastructure | Spectrum Scale | 48 | 768 | 70.91 | 34.91 | 144.06 | - |
| 39 | SC20 | The Science and Technology Facilities Council | JASMIN 4 | Quobyte Inc. | Quobyte | 48 | 336 | 17.55 | 19.76 | 15.60 | - |
| 40 | SC21 | Raytheon | MCK-HPC | Penguin Computing | WekaFS | 44 | 1,584 | 86.24 | 27.64 | 269.10 | - |
| 41 | SC20 | Raytheon | WekaIO | Penguin Computing | wekafs | 42 | 1,596 | 50.58 | 16.39 | 156.10 | - |
| 42 | ISC20 | DDN | AI400X | DDN | Lustre | 40 | 1,280 | 137.03 | 46.84 | 400.84 | - |
| 43 | ISC21 | Lenovo | Lenovo-Lenox | Lenovo | DAOS | 36 | 3,456 | 988.99 | 176.37 | 5,545.61 | - |
| 44 | SC23 | Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center | IRIS | WekaIO | WekaIO | 36 | 4,248 | 308.94 | 104.79 | 910.80 | |
| 45 | ISC23 | Imperial College London | Imperial - hx cluster | Lenovo | Spectrum scale | 32 | 512 | 119.56 | 44.63 | 320.31 | |
| 46 | SC23 | Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia Research Campus | Janelia Compute Cluster | Vast Data | Vast | 32 | 2,048 | 26.83 | 11.45 | 62.84 | |
| 47 | SC19 | Oracle Cloud Infrastructure | Oracle Cloud Infrastructure with Block Volume Service running Spectrum Scale | Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Block Volumes Service | Spectrum Scale | 30 | 480 | 47.55 | 20.38 | 110.93 | - |
| 48 | SC19 | CSIRO | bracewell scratch2 | Dell/ThinkParQ | beegfs | 26 | 260 | 94.86 | 69.10 | 130.23 | - |
| 49 | SC21 | NLHPC | Guacolda | IBM | SpectrumScale | 24 | 480 | 83.18 | 33.87 | 204.27 | - |
| 50 | ISC25 | GWDG | Future Technology Platform | Intel | Lustre | 21 | 420 | 22.08 | 6.49 | 75.14 | |
| 51 | ISC22 | Lenovo | Lenovo-Lenox3 | Lenovo | DAOS | 20 | 1,440 | 624.59 | 145.12 | 2,688.20 | - |
| 52 | ISC22 | Lenovo | Lenovo-Lenox3 | Lenovo | DAOS | 20 | 1,440 | 372.26 | 109.76 | 1,262.54 | - |
| 53 | SC23 | Eikon Therapeutics | spt-compute1 | Qumulo | Qumulo Core | 20 | 40 | 7.58 | 2.82 | 20.38 | - |
| 54 | ISC21 | National Supercomputer Center in GuangZhou | Venus2 | National Supercomputer Center in GuangZhou | kapok | 18 | 720 | 577.93 | 104.52 | 3,195.53 | - |
| 55 | SC24 | Gesellschaft fur wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung | Emmy | Clyso | CephFS | 18 | 270 | 32.17 | 11.92 | 86.81 | |
| 56 | ISC20 | Argonne National Laboratory | Presque | Argonne National Laboratory | DAOS | 16 | 544 | 537.31 | 108.19 | 2,668.57 | - |
| 57 | SC22 | Mohamed bin Zayed University | CIAI | Q-Leap Networks GmbH / HPCME | Lustre | 16 | 256 | 62.40 | 22.22 | 175.23 | - |
| 58 | SC21 | Huawei Cloud | PDSL | Flashfs | 15 | 1,560 | 2,016.70 | 109.82 | 37,034.00 | - | |
| 59 | ISC24 | Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center | Altair | xFiusion | Lustre | 15 | 240 | 73.50 | 15.24 | 354.60 | |
| 60 | SC19 | SUSE | TigerShark | SUSE, Intel, Lenovo | SUSE Enterprise Storage - CephFS | 15 | 120 | 14.91 | 5.74 | 38.72 | - |
| 61 | ISC23 | JNIST and HUST PDSL | Cheeloo-1 with OceanStor Pacific | Huawei | OceanFS2 | 10 | 9,600 | 137,100.00 | 2,439.37 | 7,705,448.04 | |
| 62 | SC22 | Sugon Cloud Storage Laboratory | ParaStor | Sugon | ParaStor | 10 | 2,560 | 8,726.42 | 718.11 | 106,042.93 | - |
| 63 | SC22 | SuPro Storteck | StarStor | SuPro Storteck | StarStor | 10 | 2,560 | 6,751.75 | 515.15 | 88,491.65 | - |
| 64 | SC22 | Tsinghua Storage Research Group | SuperStore | Tsinghua Storage Research Group | SuperFS | 10 | 1,200 | 5,517.73 | 179.60 | 169,515.95 | - |
| 65 | ISC22 | National Supercomputing Center in Jinan | Shanhe | PDSL | flashfs | 10 | 2,560 | 3,534.42 | 207.79 | 60,119.50 | - |
| 66 | SC21 | Huawei HPDA Lab | Athena | Huawei | OceanFS | 10 | 1,720 | 2,395.03 | 314.56 | 18,235.71 | - |
| 67 | SC21 | Olympus Lab | OceanStor Pacific | Huawei | OceanFS | 10 | 1,720 | 2,298.69 | 317.07 | 16,664.88 | - |
| 68 | ISC21 | Intel | Endeavour | Intel | DAOS | 10 | 1,440 | 1,859.56 | 398.77 | 8,671.65 | - |
| 69 | ISC24 | Institute of Computing Technology Chinese Academy of Sciences and National Supercomputing Center in Zhengzhou | Songshan | Institute of Computing Technology Chinese Academy of Sciences | HiStore | 10 | 320 | 1,349.22 | 43.78 | 41,580.79 | |
| 70 | SC22 | Meadowgate Technologies | Meadowgate | INTEL HPE | DAOS | 10 | 1,280 | 1,014.24 | 213.15 | 4,826.12 | - |
| 71 | SC21 | BPFS Lab | Kongming | BPFS | 10 | 800 | 972.60 | 96.26 | 9,827.09 | - | |
| 72 | SC21 | National Research Center of Tranlational Medicine at Shanghai Ruijin Hospital | ASTRA | NRCTM | DAOS | 10 | 360 | 511.02 | 87.50 | 2,984.61 | - |
| 73 | ISC23 | University of Tsukuba | Pegasus | OSS | CHFS | 10 | 480 | 484.41 | 98.24 | 2,388.60 | |
| 74 | ISC25 | UW-Madison NetLab Research Group | MadRacks Testbed | NetLab | GluonFS | 10 | 620 | 433.04 | 73.48 | 2,551.88 | |
| 75 | ISC23 | Intel | Borealis | Intel | DAOS | 10 | 1,040 | 431.43 | 125.21 | 1,486.53 | |
| 76 | SC21 | QCT DevCloud | QCT DevCloud | QCT | DAOS | 10 | 560 | 427.27 | 102.85 | 1,774.97 | - |
| 77 | ISC21 | Supermicro | Supermicro | DAOS | 10 | 1,120 | 415.04 | 112.17 | 1,535.63 | - | |
| 78 | ISC23 | DSAL | HPStore | SITONHOLY | HPFS | 10 | 420 | 392.14 | 38.95 | 3,948.47 | |
| 79 | ISC24 | Zuse Institute Berlin | Lise | Megware | DAOS | 10 | 960 | 324.54 | 65.01 | 1,620.13 | |
| 80 | ISC24 | Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz | MOGON-NHR | N/A | GekkoFS | 10 | 240 | 281.96 | 48.21 | 1,649.25 | |
| 81 | SC24 | MEGWARE | Lustre + xiRAID Classic | MEGWARE | Lustre | 10 | 280 | 262.33 | 86.15 | 798.80 | |
| 82 | SC19 | NVIDIA | DGX-2H SuperPOD | DDN | Lustre | 10 | 400 | 249.50 | 86.97 | 715.76 | - |
| 83 | ISC23 | DDN | AI400X2-II | DDN | EXAScaler | 10 | 1,280 | 240.85 | 51.46 | 1,127.22 | |
| 84 | SC20 | EPCC | NextGENIO | BSC & JGU | GekkoFS | 10 | 3,800 | 239.37 | 45.79 | 1,251.32 | - |
| 85 | ISC21 | Olympus Storage Technology Innovation Lab | OceanStor | Huawei | OceanFS | 10 | 960 | 220.10 | 69.49 | 697.15 | - |
| 86 | ISC22 | Wu Dong Laboratory | Wu Dong Compute Cluster | Wu Dong Laboratory | OPENFS | 10 | 640 | 218.81 | 43.86 | 1,091.49 | - |
| 87 | SC22 | China Telecom Research Institute | CTPAI | CTCLOUD | DAOS | 10 | 250 | 212.29 | 31.40 | 1,435.19 | - |
| 88 | ISC23 | Intel | Florence | Intel | DAOS | 10 | 1,120 | 211.34 | 31.00 | 1,440.73 | |
| 89 | 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 | |
| 90 | ISC24 | NHN Cloud Corporation | NHN CLOUD GWANGJU AI | DDN | EXAScaler | 10 | 640 | 176.57 | 62.58 | 498.22 | |
| 91 | SC20 | Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz | MOGON II | JGU (ADA-FS)& BSC (NEXTGenIO) | GekkoFS | 10 | 240 | 167.64 | 22.97 | 1,223.59 | - |
| 92 | SC23 | IBM Ehningen System | DACH Storage Scale System 3500 | IBM | IBM Storage Scale | 10 | 200 | 166.25 | 87.14 | 317.17 | |
| 93 | SC24 | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Leonardo | ARCOS-UC3M | Expand | 10 | 640 | 158.23 | 57.26 | 437.25 | |
| 94 | 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 | |
| 95 | ISC21 | University of Tsukuba | Cygnus | OSS | CHFS | 10 | 240 | 148.69 | 30.39 | 727.61 | - |
| 96 | ISC23 | DDN | AI400X2-I | DDN | EXAScaler | 10 | 320 | 142.03 | 33.43 | 603.39 | |
| 97 | SC23 | IBM Tucson | Arches Storage Scale System 3500 | IBM | IBM Storage Scale | 10 | 200 | 136.35 | 74.18 | 250.64 | |
| 98 | ISC21 | Joint Institute of Nuclear Research | Govorun | RSC | DAOS | 10 | 160 | 132.07 | 20.19 | 863.69 | - |
| 99 | ISC25 | DDN | AI400X2-I | DDN | EXAScaler | 10 | 1,280 | 126.73 | 38.70 | 414.98 | |
| 100 | ISC23 | Riken R-CCS | Riken-FX700 | Intel | DAOS | 10 | 480 | 126.10 | 21.39 | 743.47 | |