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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 SC20 Raytheon WekaIO Penguin Computing wekafs 42 1,596 50.58 16.39 156.10 -
2 ISC25 Hammerspace Hammerspace Performance Lab Hammerspace pNFS v4.2 via Hammerspace Anvil Metadata Service 10 640 63.77 37.25 109.16
3 ISC21 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia Research Campus Vast nrsv 10 300 15.50 7.54 31.84 -
4 ISC21 National Supercomputer Center in GuangZhou Venus2 National Supercomputer Center in GuangZhou kapok 18 720 577.93 104.52 3,195.53 -
5 ISC22 National Supercomputing Center in Jinan Shanhe PDSL flashfs 10 2,560 3,534.42 207.79 60,119.50 -
6 SC19 CSIRO bracewell scratch2 Dell/ThinkParQ beegfs 26 260 94.86 69.10 130.23 -
7 SC19 WekaIO WekaIO on AWS WekaIO WekaIO Matrix 345 8,625 938.95 174.74 5,045.33 -
8 SC23 Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center IRIS WekaIO WekaIO 36 4,248 308.94 104.79 910.80
9 SC21 Raytheon MCK-HPC Penguin Computing WekaFS 44 1,584 86.24 27.64 269.10 -
10 ISC21 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia Research Campus Janelia Weka.io Weka.io 10 300 62.68 18.17 216.22 -
11 ISC22 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Oracle Cloud with WEKA on RDMA WekaIO WEKA 373 7,460 625.95 233.17 1,680.38 -
12 ISC24 University of Virginia Afton Dell WEKA 10 850 105.94 33.28 337.29
13 SC23 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia Research Campus Janelia Compute Cluster Vast Data Vast 32 2,048 26.83 11.45 62.84
14 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
15 SC22 Tsinghua Storage Research Group SuperStore Tsinghua Storage Research Group SuperFS 10 1,200 5,517.73 179.60 169,515.95 -
16 ISC24 Centre de Recherche en Aeronautique Lucia IBM Storage Scale 256 1,024 115.06 54.74 241.83
17 SC22 SuPro Storteck StarStor SuPro Storteck StarStor 10 2,560 6,751.75 515.15 88,491.65 -
18 SC21 NLHPC Guacolda IBM SpectrumScale 24 480 83.18 33.87 204.27 -
19 SC21 ULHPC Aion DDN SpectrumScale 128 256 11.35 1.80 71.57 -
20 SC21 IBMDL Sandbox IBM SpectrumScale 10 0 3.17 0.61 16.57 -
21 ISC23 Imperial College London Imperial - hx cluster Lenovo Spectrum scale 32 512 119.56 44.63 320.31
22 ISC20 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure SpectrumScale on Oracle Cloud Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Spectrum Scale 48 768 70.91 34.91 144.06 -
23 SC23 Center for Research Informatics at University of Chicago Randi IBM Spectrum Scale 10 160 60.88 31.05 119.36
24 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 -
25 SC19 CNES HAL DDN Spectrum Scale 96 96 37.16 9.71 142.20 -
26 ISC20 National Center for Supercomputing Applications HAL DDN Spectrum Scale 10 100 11.31 3.62 35.37 -
27 SC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI Vast Vast Data Scale-out NAS 88 2,816 12.50 8.31 18.79 -
28 SC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI dm11 #N/A Scale-out NAS 10 760 6.42 2.61 15.82 -
29 SC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI nrs Qumulo Scale-out NAS 10 760 4.19 2.88 6.11 -
30 SC19 SUSE TigerShark SUSE, Intel, Lenovo SUSE Enterprise Storage - CephFS 15 120 14.91 5.74 38.72 -
31 SC20 NASA hyperwall4 Intel. SK-Hynx SSD 128 1,024 75.75 122.24 46.94 -
32 SC20 The Science and Technology Facilities Council JASMIN 4 Quobyte Inc. Quobyte 48 336 17.55 19.76 15.60 -
33 SC23 Eikon Therapeutics spt-compute1 Qumulo Qumulo Core 20 40 7.58 2.82 20.38 -
34 SC20 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI SharedScratch WekaIO Parallel Filesystem 48 1,248 134.09 48.03 374.40 -
35 SC22 Sugon Cloud Storage Laboratory ParaStor Sugon ParaStor 10 2,560 8,726.42 718.11 106,042.93 -
36 ISC23 Panasas PanEast ActiveStor Flash Panasas Panfs 10 80 10.57 4.49 24.90
37 ISC23 Panasas PanEast ActiveStor UltraXL Panasas Panfs 10 80 6.25 1.86 21.01
38 SC22 Omnibond OrangeFS-Google Omnibond-Google OrangeFS 10 150 9.92 4.27 23.08 -
39 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
40 SC21 Huawei HPDA Lab Athena Huawei OceanFS 10 1,720 2,395.03 314.56 18,235.71 -
41 SC21 Olympus Lab OceanStor Pacific Huawei OceanFS 10 1,720 2,298.69 317.07 16,664.88 -
42 ISC21 Olympus Storage Technology Innovation Lab OceanStor Huawei OceanFS 10 960 220.10 69.49 697.15 -
43 ISC22 Wu Dong Laboratory Wu Dong Compute Cluster Wu Dong Laboratory OPENFS 10 640 218.81 43.86 1,091.49 -
44 SC23 King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Shaheen III HPE Lustre 2,080 16,640 797.04 709.52 895.35
45 ISC21 Google Cloud Google DDN Lustre 1,000 5,000 569.99 282.78 1,148.90 -
46 SC19 National Supercomputing Center in Changsha Tianhe-2E National University of Defense Technology Lustre 480 5,280 453.68 209.43 982.78 -
47 ISC21 University of Florida HiPerGator DDN Lustre 140 4,480 269.59 181.37 400.73 -
48 SC24 MEGWARE Lustre + xiRAID Classic MEGWARE Lustre 10 280 262.33 86.15 798.80
49 ISC22 University of Cambridge Cumulus Dell Lustre 200 2,000 261.39 92.64 737.54 -
50 SC19 NVIDIA DGX-2H SuperPOD DDN Lustre 10 400 249.50 86.97 715.76 -
51 SC19 University of Cambridge Data Accelerator Dell EMC Lustre 128 2,048 229.45 131.25 401.13 -
52 SC19 CEA Tera-1000 DDN Lustre 128 4,096 210.26 81.01 545.74 -
53 ISC21 LuxProvide MeluXina DDN Lustre 512 12,288 194.12 112.06 336.25 -
54 ISC24 ACC Cyfronet AGH Helios HPE Lustre 80 640 153.39 122.31 192.36
55 ISC20 DDN AI400X DDN Lustre 40 1,280 137.03 46.84 400.84 -
56 SC20 Joint Supercomputer Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences MVS10POP2 RSC Group Lustre 54 864 125.50 45.31 347.61 -
57 ISC20 CSIRO bracewell Dell/DDN Lustre 10 400 99.64 39.90 248.81 -
58 ISC20 JINR Govorun RSC Group Lustre 50 800 90.87 35.61 231.88 -
59 ISC24 Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center Altair xFiusion Lustre 15 240 73.50 15.24 354.60
60 SC21 CQ Narval Dell Lustre 640 640 68.31 32.74 142.53 -
61 SC19 Google Cloud EXA5-GCP-PD-SSD Google Cloud Lustre 200 1,600 67.78 26.93 170.61 -
62 ISC20 SPbPU Polytechnic RSC Tornado RSC Group Lustre 59 944 64.29 21.56 191.73 -
63 SC19 DDN AI400 DDN Lustre 10 240 63.88 19.65 207.63 -
64 SC22 Mohamed bin Zayed University CIAI Q-Leap Networks GmbH / HPCME Lustre 16 256 62.40 22.22 175.23 -
65 SC19 Google Cloud EXA5-GCP-PD-STD Google Cloud Lustre 200 1,600 52.96 17.31 162.06 -
66 SC23 Telecommunications Technology Association KR580S1 Gluesys Lustre 10 320 44.82 23.29 86.26
67 ISC25 GWDG Future Technology Platform Intel Lustre 21 420 22.08 6.49 75.14
68 SC23 Mississippi State University High Performance Computing Collaboratory Orion DDN Lustre 10 400 20.83 5.01 86.67
69 ISC20 Simon Fraser University Cedar Dell/Seagate Lustre 288 288 18.72 7.66 45.75 -
70 SC23 Mississippi State University High Performance Computing Collaboratory Orion DDN Lustre 10 400 17.57 6.43 48.03
71 ISC21 Georgia Institute of Technology PACE-Phoenix DDN Lustre 10 240 17.07 4.52 64.48 -
72 SC20 EPCC Archer 2 (test system) Cray Lustre 10 80 10.68 2.63 43.43 -
73 SC19 Stanford Sherlock/Regal Dell Lustre 10 160 7.05 1.64 30.28 -
74 ISC21 DKRZ Mistral Seagate/Cray Lustre 10 80 5.22 1.16 23.50 -
75 ISC20 Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI) NURION DDN IME 2,048 2,048 282.45 515.59 154.74 -
76 SC20 JCAHPC Oakforest-PACS DDN IME 2,048 4,096 253.57 697.20 92.22 -
77 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
78 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
79 SC23 IBM Cloud HPC BlueStorm IBM IBM Storage Scale 199 1,990 618.92 440.99 868.63
80 SC23 IBM Ehningen System DACH Storage Scale System 3500 IBM IBM Storage Scale 10 200 166.25 87.14 317.17
81 SC23 IBM Tucson Arches Storage Scale System 3500 IBM IBM Storage Scale 10 200 136.35 74.18 250.64
82 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
83 ISC23 DSAL HPStore SITONHOLY HPFS 10 420 392.14 38.95 3,948.47
84 ISC25 UW-Madison NetLab Research Group MadRacks Testbed NetLab GluonFS 10 620 433.04 73.48 2,551.88
85 SC20 University of Tsukuba Cygnus OSS Gfarm 10 20 16.12 8.10 32.09 -
86 ISC24 Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz MOGON-NHR N/A GekkoFS 10 240 281.96 48.21 1,649.25
87 SC20 EPCC NextGENIO BSC & JGU GekkoFS 10 3,800 239.37 45.79 1,251.32 -
88 SC20 Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz MOGON II JGU (ADA-FS)& BSC (NEXTGenIO) GekkoFS 10 240 167.64 22.97 1,223.59 -
89 SC21 Huawei Cloud PDSL Flashfs 15 1,560 2,016.70 109.82 37,034.00 -
90 SC24 Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Leonardo ARCOS-UC3M Expand 10 640 158.23 57.26 437.25
91 ISC25 Universidad Carlos III de Madrid C3-UC3M ARCOS-UC3M Expand 10 640 47.50 18.87 119.55
92 SC23 Universidad Carlos III de Madrid MareNostrum 4 ARCOS-UC3M Expand 10 320 22.77 23.88 21.71
93 ISC23 EuroHPC-CINECA Leonardo DDN EXAScaler 2,000 16,000 648.96 807.12 521.79
94 ISC23 DDN AI400X2-II DDN EXAScaler 10 1,280 240.85 51.46 1,127.22
95 ISC24 NHN Cloud Corporation NHN CLOUD GWANGJU AI DDN EXAScaler 10 640 176.57 62.58 498.22
96 ISC23 DDN AI400X2-I DDN EXAScaler 10 320 142.03 33.43 603.39
97 ISC25 DDN AI400X2-I DDN EXAScaler 10 1,280 126.73 38.70 414.98
98 ISC25 DDN AI400X2-I-k8s DDN EXAScaler 10 1,280 115.51 39.26 339.89
99 ISC24 DDN AI400X2T DDN EXAScaler 10 640 109.84 34.24 352.35
100 SC23 Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology Earth Simulator 4 DDN EXAScaler 10 320 101.88 48.19 215.38