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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 | SC21 | IBMDL | Sandbox | IBM | SpectrumScale | 10 | 0 | 3.17 | 0.61 | 16.57 | - |
| 2 | SC19 | Janelia Research Campus, HHMI | nrs | Qumulo | Scale-out NAS | 10 | 760 | 4.19 | 2.88 | 6.11 | - |
| 3 | ISC21 | DKRZ | Mistral | Seagate/Cray | Lustre | 10 | 80 | 5.22 | 1.16 | 23.50 | - |
| 4 | ISC23 | Panasas | PanEast ActiveStor UltraXL | Panasas | Panfs | 10 | 80 | 6.25 | 1.86 | 21.01 | |
| 5 | SC19 | Janelia Research Campus, HHMI | dm11 | #N/A | Scale-out NAS | 10 | 760 | 6.42 | 2.61 | 15.82 | - |
| 6 | SC23 | LCPQ | Ampere | Home made | BeeGFS | 10 | 30 | 6.65 | 1.22 | 36.16 | |
| 7 | SC19 | Stanford | Sherlock/Regal | Dell | Lustre | 10 | 160 | 7.05 | 1.64 | 30.28 | - |
| 8 | SC23 | Eikon Therapeutics | spt-compute1 | Qumulo | Qumulo Core | 20 | 40 | 7.58 | 2.82 | 20.38 | - |
| 9 | SC22 | Omnibond | OrangeFS-Google | Omnibond-Google | OrangeFS | 10 | 150 | 9.92 | 4.27 | 23.08 | - |
| 10 | ISC23 | Panasas | PanEast ActiveStor Flash | Panasas | Panfs | 10 | 80 | 10.57 | 4.49 | 24.90 | |
| 11 | SC20 | EPCC | Archer 2 (test system) | Cray | Lustre | 10 | 80 | 10.68 | 2.63 | 43.43 | - |
| 12 | ISC20 | National Center for Supercomputing Applications | HAL | DDN | Spectrum Scale | 10 | 100 | 11.31 | 3.62 | 35.37 | - |
| 13 | SC21 | ULHPC | Aion | DDN | SpectrumScale | 128 | 256 | 11.35 | 1.80 | 71.57 | - |
| 14 | SC19 | Janelia Research Campus, HHMI | Vast | Vast Data | Scale-out NAS | 88 | 2,816 | 12.50 | 8.31 | 18.79 | - |
| 15 | SC21 | GWDG | SCC | BeeGFS | 10 | 80 | 12.55 | 2.63 | 59.85 | - | |
| 16 | SC19 | SUSE | TigerShark | SUSE, Intel, Lenovo | SUSE Enterprise Storage - CephFS | 15 | 120 | 14.91 | 5.74 | 38.72 | - |
| 17 | ISC21 | Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia Research Campus | Vast | nrsv | 10 | 300 | 15.50 | 7.54 | 31.84 | - | |
| 18 | SC20 | University of Tsukuba | Cygnus | OSS | Gfarm | 10 | 20 | 16.12 | 8.10 | 32.09 | - |
| 19 | ISC23 | Arizona State University | Sol | Dell | BeeGFS | 10 | 160 | 16.48 | 4.40 | 61.76 | |
| 20 | ISC21 | Georgia Institute of Technology | PACE-Phoenix | DDN | Lustre | 10 | 240 | 17.07 | 4.52 | 64.48 | - |
| 21 | SC20 | The Science and Technology Facilities Council | JASMIN 4 | Quobyte Inc. | Quobyte | 48 | 336 | 17.55 | 19.76 | 15.60 | - |
| 22 | SC23 | Mississippi State University High Performance Computing Collaboratory | Orion | DDN | Lustre | 10 | 400 | 17.57 | 6.43 | 48.03 | |
| 23 | ISC20 | Simon Fraser University | Cedar | Dell/Seagate | Lustre | 288 | 288 | 18.72 | 7.66 | 45.75 | - |
| 24 | SC23 | Mississippi State University High Performance Computing Collaboratory | Orion | DDN | Lustre | 10 | 400 | 20.83 | 5.01 | 86.67 | |
| 25 | SC19 | Clemson University | Palmetto Burstbuffer | AdvancedHPC | BeeGFS | 10 | 120 | 21.55 | 12.97 | 35.80 | - |
| 26 | ISC25 | GWDG | Future Technology Platform | Intel | Lustre | 21 | 420 | 22.08 | 6.49 | 75.14 | |
| 27 | SC23 | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | MareNostrum 4 | ARCOS-UC3M | Expand | 10 | 320 | 22.77 | 23.88 | 21.71 | |
| 28 | SC23 | Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia Research Campus | Janelia Compute Cluster | Vast Data | Vast | 32 | 2,048 | 26.83 | 11.45 | 62.84 | |
| 29 | SC24 | Gesellschaft fur wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung | Emmy | Clyso | CephFS | 18 | 270 | 32.17 | 11.92 | 86.81 | |
| 30 | SC19 | CNES | HAL | DDN | Spectrum Scale | 96 | 96 | 37.16 | 9.71 | 142.20 | - |
| 31 | SC19 | Penguin Computing Benchmarking and Innovation Lab | Penguin-ASG-NVBeeOne | Penguin Computing/Excelero | BeeGFS | 10 | 320 | 39.65 | 17.71 | 88.76 | - |
| 32 | SC23 | Telecommunications Technology Association | KR580S1 | Gluesys | Lustre | 10 | 320 | 44.82 | 23.29 | 86.26 | |
| 33 | ISC25 | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | C3-UC3M | ARCOS-UC3M | Expand | 10 | 640 | 47.50 | 18.87 | 119.55 | |
| 34 | 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 | - |
| 35 | SC20 | Raytheon | WekaIO | Penguin Computing | wekafs | 42 | 1,596 | 50.58 | 16.39 | 156.10 | - |
| 36 | SC19 | Google Cloud | EXA5-GCP-PD-STD | Google Cloud | Lustre | 200 | 1,600 | 52.96 | 17.31 | 162.06 | - |
| 37 | ISC24 | Saudi ARAMCO | CSSP | DDN | EXAScaler | 93 | 744 | 55.11 | 38.14 | 79.63 | |
| 38 | ISC20 | Red Hat | EC2-10xi3en.metal | Red Hat | CephFS | 10 | 320 | 57.17 | 26.29 | 124.30 | - |
| 39 | SC23 | Center for Research Informatics at University of Chicago | Randi | IBM | Spectrum Scale | 10 | 160 | 60.88 | 31.05 | 119.36 | |
| 40 | SC22 | Mohamed bin Zayed University | CIAI | Q-Leap Networks GmbH / HPCME | Lustre | 16 | 256 | 62.40 | 22.22 | 175.23 | - |
| 41 | ISC21 | Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia Research Campus | Janelia | Weka.io | Weka.io | 10 | 300 | 62.68 | 18.17 | 216.22 | - |
| 42 | ISC25 | Hammerspace | Hammerspace Performance Lab | Hammerspace | pNFS v4.2 via Hammerspace Anvil Metadata Service | 10 | 640 | 63.77 | 37.25 | 109.16 | |
| 43 | SC19 | DDN | AI400 | DDN | Lustre | 10 | 240 | 63.88 | 19.65 | 207.63 | - |
| 44 | ISC20 | SPbPU | Polytechnic RSC Tornado | RSC Group | Lustre | 59 | 944 | 64.29 | 21.56 | 191.73 | - |
| 45 | SC19 | Google Cloud | EXA5-GCP-PD-SSD | Google Cloud | Lustre | 200 | 1,600 | 67.78 | 26.93 | 170.61 | - |
| 46 | SC21 | CQ | Narval | Dell | Lustre | 640 | 640 | 68.31 | 32.74 | 142.53 | - |
| 47 | ISC20 | Oracle Cloud Infrastructure | SpectrumScale on Oracle Cloud | Oracle Cloud Infrastructure | Spectrum Scale | 48 | 768 | 70.91 | 34.91 | 144.06 | - |
| 48 | ISC24 | Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center | Altair | xFiusion | Lustre | 15 | 240 | 73.50 | 15.24 | 354.60 | |
| 49 | SC20 | NASA | hyperwall4 | Intel. SK-Hynx | SSD | 128 | 1,024 | 75.75 | 122.24 | 46.94 | - |
| 50 | SC19 | State Key Laboratory of High-end Server & Storage Technology (HSS) | TStor3000 | INSPUR | BeeGFS | 10 | 300 | 82.57 | 41.14 | 165.71 | - |
| 51 | SC21 | NLHPC | Guacolda | IBM | SpectrumScale | 24 | 480 | 83.18 | 33.87 | 204.27 | - |
| 52 | SC21 | Raytheon | MCK-HPC | Penguin Computing | WekaFS | 44 | 1,584 | 86.24 | 27.64 | 269.10 | - |
| 53 | ISC20 | JINR | Govorun | RSC Group | Lustre | 50 | 800 | 90.87 | 35.61 | 231.88 | - |
| 54 | SC19 | CSIRO | bracewell scratch2 | Dell/ThinkParQ | beegfs | 26 | 260 | 94.86 | 69.10 | 130.23 | - |
| 55 | ISC20 | CSIRO | bracewell | Dell/DDN | Lustre | 10 | 400 | 99.64 | 39.90 | 248.81 | - |
| 56 | SC23 | Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology | Earth Simulator 4 | DDN | EXAScaler | 10 | 320 | 101.88 | 48.19 | 215.38 | |
| 57 | ISC24 | University of Virginia | Afton | Dell | WEKA | 10 | 850 | 105.94 | 33.28 | 337.29 | |
| 58 | ISC24 | DDN | AI400X2T | DDN | EXAScaler | 10 | 640 | 109.84 | 34.24 | 352.35 | |
| 59 | ISC24 | Centre de Recherche en Aeronautique | Lucia | IBM | Storage Scale | 256 | 1,024 | 115.06 | 54.74 | 241.83 | |
| 60 | ISC25 | DDN | AI400X2-I-k8s | DDN | EXAScaler | 10 | 1,280 | 115.51 | 39.26 | 339.89 | |
| 61 | SC24 | Centre for Development of Advanced Computing | RUDRA | Intel | DAOS | 10 | 480 | 119.23 | 22.23 | 639.59 | |
| 62 | ISC23 | Imperial College London | Imperial - hx cluster | Lenovo | Spectrum scale | 32 | 512 | 119.56 | 44.63 | 320.31 | |
| 63 | SC20 | Joint Supercomputer Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences | MVS10POP2 | RSC Group | Lustre | 54 | 864 | 125.50 | 45.31 | 347.61 | - |
| 64 | ISC23 | Riken R-CCS | Riken-FX700 | Intel | DAOS | 10 | 480 | 126.10 | 21.39 | 743.47 | |
| 65 | ISC25 | DDN | AI400X2-I | DDN | EXAScaler | 10 | 1,280 | 126.73 | 38.70 | 414.98 | |
| 66 | ISC21 | Joint Institute of Nuclear Research | Govorun | RSC | DAOS | 10 | 160 | 132.07 | 20.19 | 863.69 | - |
| 67 | SC20 | Janelia Research Campus, HHMI | SharedScratch | WekaIO | Parallel Filesystem | 48 | 1,248 | 134.09 | 48.03 | 374.40 | - |
| 68 | SC23 | IBM Tucson | Arches Storage Scale System 3500 | IBM | IBM Storage Scale | 10 | 200 | 136.35 | 74.18 | 250.64 | |
| 69 | ISC20 | DDN | AI400X | DDN | Lustre | 40 | 1,280 | 137.03 | 46.84 | 400.84 | - |
| 70 | ISC23 | DDN | AI400X2-I | DDN | EXAScaler | 10 | 320 | 142.03 | 33.43 | 603.39 | |
| 71 | ISC21 | University of Tsukuba | Cygnus | OSS | CHFS | 10 | 240 | 148.69 | 30.39 | 727.61 | - |
| 72 | ISC24 | ACC Cyfronet AGH | Helios | HPE | Lustre | 80 | 640 | 153.39 | 122.31 | 192.36 | |
| 73 | 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 | |
| 74 | SC24 | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Leonardo | ARCOS-UC3M | Expand | 10 | 640 | 158.23 | 57.26 | 437.25 | |
| 75 | SC23 | IBM Ehningen System | DACH Storage Scale System 3500 | IBM | IBM Storage Scale | 10 | 200 | 166.25 | 87.14 | 317.17 | |
| 76 | SC20 | Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz | MOGON II | JGU (ADA-FS)& BSC (NEXTGenIO) | GekkoFS | 10 | 240 | 167.64 | 22.97 | 1,223.59 | - |
| 77 | ISC24 | NHN Cloud Corporation | NHN CLOUD GWANGJU AI | DDN | EXAScaler | 10 | 640 | 176.57 | 62.58 | 498.22 | |
| 78 | 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 | |
| 79 | ISC21 | LuxProvide | MeluXina | DDN | Lustre | 512 | 12,288 | 194.12 | 112.06 | 336.25 | - |
| 80 | SC19 | CEA | Tera-1000 | DDN | Lustre | 128 | 4,096 | 210.26 | 81.01 | 545.74 | - |
| 81 | ISC23 | Intel | Florence | Intel | DAOS | 10 | 1,120 | 211.34 | 31.00 | 1,440.73 | |
| 82 | SC22 | China Telecom Research Institute | CTPAI | CTCLOUD | DAOS | 10 | 250 | 212.29 | 31.40 | 1,435.19 | - |
| 83 | ISC22 | Wu Dong Laboratory | Wu Dong Compute Cluster | Wu Dong Laboratory | OPENFS | 10 | 640 | 218.81 | 43.86 | 1,091.49 | - |
| 84 | ISC21 | Olympus Storage Technology Innovation Lab | OceanStor | Huawei | OceanFS | 10 | 960 | 220.10 | 69.49 | 697.15 | - |
| 85 | SC19 | University of Cambridge | Data Accelerator | Dell EMC | Lustre | 128 | 2,048 | 229.45 | 131.25 | 401.13 | - |
| 86 | SC20 | EPCC | NextGENIO | BSC & JGU | GekkoFS | 10 | 3,800 | 239.37 | 45.79 | 1,251.32 | - |
| 87 | ISC23 | DDN | AI400X2-II | DDN | EXAScaler | 10 | 1,280 | 240.85 | 51.46 | 1,127.22 | |
| 88 | SC19 | NVIDIA | DGX-2H SuperPOD | DDN | Lustre | 10 | 400 | 249.50 | 86.97 | 715.76 | - |
| 89 | SC20 | JCAHPC | Oakforest-PACS | DDN | IME | 2,048 | 4,096 | 253.57 | 697.20 | 92.22 | - |
| 90 | ISC22 | University of Cambridge | Cumulus | Dell | Lustre | 200 | 2,000 | 261.39 | 92.64 | 737.54 | - |
| 91 | SC24 | MEGWARE | Lustre + xiRAID Classic | MEGWARE | Lustre | 10 | 280 | 262.33 | 86.15 | 798.80 | |
| 92 | ISC20 | Oracle Cloud Infrastructure | BeeGFS on Oracle Cloud | Oracle Cloud Infrastructure | BeeGFS | 270 | 3,240 | 267.25 | 293.05 | 243.73 | - |
| 93 | ISC21 | University of Florida | HiPerGator | DDN | Lustre | 140 | 4,480 | 269.59 | 181.37 | 400.73 | - |
| 94 | ISC24 | Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz | MOGON-NHR | N/A | GekkoFS | 10 | 240 | 281.96 | 48.21 | 1,649.25 | |
| 95 | ISC20 | Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI) | NURION | DDN | IME | 2,048 | 2,048 | 282.45 | 515.59 | 154.74 | - |
| 96 | SC23 | Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center | IRIS | WekaIO | WekaIO | 36 | 4,248 | 308.94 | 104.79 | 910.80 | |
| 97 | ISC24 | Zuse Institute Berlin | Lise | Megware | DAOS | 10 | 960 | 324.54 | 65.01 | 1,620.13 | |
| 98 | ISC22 | Lenovo | Lenovo-Lenox3 | Lenovo | DAOS | 20 | 1,440 | 372.26 | 109.76 | 1,262.54 | - |
| 99 | ISC23 | DSAL | HPStore | SITONHOLY | HPFS | 10 | 420 | 392.14 | 38.95 | 3,948.47 | |
| 100 | ISC21 | Supermicro | Supermicro | DAOS | 10 | 1,120 | 415.04 | 112.17 | 1,535.63 | - | |