Look for our next call for submissions for the SC'26 lists in late September.

Research ISC26 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 ISC24 Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center Altair xFiusion Lustre 15 240 73.50 15.24 354.60
102 ISC20 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure SpectrumScale on Oracle Cloud Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Spectrum Scale 48 768 70.91 34.91 144.06 -
103 SC21 CQ Narval Dell Lustre 640 640 68.31 32.74 142.53 -
104 SC19 Google Cloud EXA5-GCP-PD-SSD Google Cloud Lustre 200 1,600 67.78 26.93 170.61 -
105 ISC20 SPbPU Polytechnic RSC Tornado RSC Group Lustre 59 944 64.29 21.56 191.73 -
106 SC19 DDN AI400 DDN Lustre 10 240 63.88 19.65 207.63 -
107 ISC25 Hammerspace Hammerspace Performance Lab Hammerspace pNFS v4.2 via Hammerspace Anvil Metadata Service 10 640 63.77 37.25 109.16
108 ISC21 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia Research Campus Janelia Weka.io Weka.io 10 300 62.68 18.17 216.22 -
109 SC22 Mohamed bin Zayed University CIAI Q-Leap Networks GmbH / HPCME Lustre 16 256 62.40 22.22 175.23 -
110 SC23 Center for Research Informatics at University of Chicago Randi IBM Spectrum Scale 10 160 60.88 31.05 119.36
111 ISC20 Red Hat EC2-10xi3en.metal Red Hat CephFS 10 320 57.17 26.29 124.30 -
112 ISC24 Saudi ARAMCO CSSP DDN EXAScaler 93 744 55.11 38.14 79.63
113 SC19 Google Cloud EXA5-GCP-PD-STD Google Cloud Lustre 200 1,600 52.96 17.31 162.06 -
114 SC20 Raytheon WekaIO Penguin Computing wekafs 42 1,596 50.58 16.39 156.10 -
115 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 -
116 ISC25 Universidad Carlos III de Madrid C3-UC3M ARCOS-UC3M Expand 10 640 47.50 18.87 119.55
117 SC23 Telecommunications Technology Association KR580S1 Gluesys Lustre 10 320 44.82 23.29 86.26
118 SC19 Penguin Computing Benchmarking and Innovation Lab Penguin-ASG-NVBeeOne Penguin Computing/Excelero BeeGFS 10 320 39.65 17.71 88.76 -
119 SC19 CNES HAL DDN Spectrum Scale 96 96 37.16 9.71 142.20 -
120 SC24 Gesellschaft fur wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung Emmy Clyso CephFS 18 270 32.17 11.92 86.81
121 ISC26 Gluesys Gluesys-TTA IO500 Testbed Gluesys Lustre 10 240 31.68 7.64 131.39
122 SC23 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia Research Campus Janelia Compute Cluster Vast Data Vast 32 2,048 26.83 11.45 62.84
123 SC23 Universidad Carlos III de Madrid MareNostrum 4 ARCOS-UC3M Expand 10 320 22.77 23.88 21.71
124 ISC25 GWDG Future Technology Platform Intel Lustre 21 420 22.08 6.49 75.14
125 SC19 Clemson University Palmetto Burstbuffer AdvancedHPC BeeGFS 10 120 21.55 12.97 35.80 -
126 SC23 Mississippi State University High Performance Computing Collaboratory Orion DDN Lustre 10 400 20.83 5.01 86.67
127 ISC20 Simon Fraser University Cedar Dell/Seagate Lustre 288 288 18.72 7.66 45.75 -
128 SC23 Mississippi State University High Performance Computing Collaboratory Orion DDN Lustre 10 400 17.57 6.43 48.03
129 SC20 The Science and Technology Facilities Council JASMIN 4 Quobyte Inc. Quobyte 48 336 17.55 19.76 15.60 -
130 ISC21 Georgia Institute of Technology PACE-Phoenix DDN Lustre 10 240 17.07 4.52 64.48 -
131 ISC23 Arizona State University Sol Dell BeeGFS 10 160 16.48 4.40 61.76
132 SC20 University of Tsukuba Cygnus OSS Gfarm 10 20 16.12 8.10 32.09 -
133 ISC21 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia Research Campus Vast nrsv 10 300 15.50 7.54 31.84 -
134 SC19 SUSE TigerShark SUSE, Intel, Lenovo SUSE Enterprise Storage - CephFS 15 120 14.91 5.74 38.72 -
135 SC21 GWDG SCC BeeGFS 10 80 12.55 2.63 59.85 -
136 SC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI Vast Vast Data Scale-out NAS 88 2,816 12.50 8.31 18.79 -
137 SC21 ULHPC Aion DDN SpectrumScale 128 256 11.35 1.80 71.57 -
138 ISC20 National Center for Supercomputing Applications HAL DDN Spectrum Scale 10 100 11.31 3.62 35.37 -
139 SC20 EPCC Archer 2 (test system) Cray Lustre 10 80 10.68 2.63 43.43 -
140 ISC23 Panasas PanEast ActiveStor Flash Panasas Panfs 10 80 10.57 4.49 24.90
141 SC22 Omnibond OrangeFS-Google Omnibond-Google OrangeFS 10 150 9.92 4.27 23.08 -
142 SC23 Eikon Therapeutics spt-compute1 Qumulo Qumulo Core 20 40 7.58 2.82 20.38 -
143 SC19 Stanford Sherlock/Regal Dell Lustre 10 160 7.05 1.64 30.28 -
144 SC23 LCPQ Ampere Home made BeeGFS 10 30 6.65 1.22 36.16
145 SC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI dm11 #N/A Scale-out NAS 10 760 6.42 2.61 15.82 -
146 ISC23 Panasas PanEast ActiveStor UltraXL Panasas Panfs 10 80 6.25 1.86 21.01
147 ISC21 DKRZ Mistral Seagate/Cray Lustre 10 80 5.22 1.16 23.50 -
148 SC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI nrs Qumulo Scale-out NAS 10 760 4.19 2.88 6.11 -
149 SC21 IBMDL Sandbox IBM SpectrumScale 10 0 3.17 0.61 16.57 -