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10 Node Research ISC26 List

Ranking of the research system submissions that used exactly ten client nodes. 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 10 client node submissions prior to the creation of the Research List.
# BoF Information IO500 Repro.
Institution System · FS Type Storage Vendor Client Nodes Total Client Proc. Score BW MD
(GiB/s) (kIOP/s)
101 SC19 Stanford Sherlock/Fir Lustre Dell, QCT, HGST 10 240 18.25 5.23 63.74 -
102 SC23 Mississippi State University High Performance Computing Collaboratory Orion Lustre DDN 10 400 17.57 6.43 48.03
103 ISC21 Georgia Institute of Technology PACE-Phoenix Lustre DDN 10 240 17.07 4.52 64.48 -
104 ISC23 Arizona State University Sol BeeGFS Dell 10 160 16.48 4.40 61.76
105 SC20 University of Tsukuba Cygnus Gfarm OSS 10 20 16.12 8.10 32.09 -
106 ISC20 SUSE HammerHead CephFS SUSE/Ampere/Arm 10 220 15.61 7.34 33.22 -
107 ISC21 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia Research Campus nrsv Vast 10 300 15.50 7.54 31.84 -
108 SC19 University of Birmingham BEAR-AI Spectrum Scale DDN 10 80 15.39 2.74 86.48 -
109 SC19 Nanyang Technological University Hadley GPFS DDN 10 640 12.89 7.47 22.24 -
110 SC21 GWDG SCC BeeGFS 10 80 12.55 2.63 59.85 -
111 SC19 SUSE TigerShark SUSE Enterprise Storage - CephFS SUSE, Intel, Lenovo 10 80 12.43 4.64 33.34 -
112 SC20 The Science and Technology Facilities Council JASMIN 4 Quobyte Quobyte Inc. 10 240 11.34 12.34 10.43 -
113 ISC20 National Center for Supercomputing Applications HAL Spectrum Scale DDN 10 100 11.31 3.62 35.37 -
114 SC20 EPCC Archer 2 (test system) Lustre Cray 10 80 10.68 2.63 43.43 -
115 SC20 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI Vast Scale-out NAS Vast Data 10 260 10.64 7.44 15.22 -
116 ISC23 Panasas PanEast ActiveStor Flash Panfs Panasas 10 80 10.57 4.49 24.90
117 SC22 Omnibond OrangeFS-Google OrangeFS Omnibond-Google 10 150 9.92 4.27 23.08 -
118 SC19 Stanford Sherlock/Oak Lustre Dell, QCT, HGST 10 240 9.31 1.89 45.87 -
119 SC19 Stanford Sherlock/Regal Lustre Dell 10 160 7.05 1.64 30.28 -
120 SC23 LCPQ Ampere BeeGFS Home made 10 30 6.65 1.22 36.16
121 SC19 IST Austria IST Austria HPC BeeGFS Homemade@IST 10 100 6.63 1.39 31.62 -
122 SC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI dm11 Scale-out NAS #N/A 10 760 6.42 2.61 15.82 -
123 ISC23 Panasas PanEast ActiveStor UltraXL Panfs Panasas 10 80 6.25 1.86 21.01
124 SC23 Eikon Therapeutics spt-compute1 Qumulo Core Qumulo 10 20 5.35 2.24 12.77 -
125 ISC21 DKRZ Mistral Lustre Seagate/Cray 10 80 5.22 1.16 23.50 -
126 ISC21 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia Research Campus Janelia Qumulo Qumulo 10 400 4.97 2.34 10.54 -
127 SC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI nrs Scale-out NAS Qumulo 10 760 4.19 2.88 6.11 -
128 SC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI nearline4 Scale-out NAS Qumulo 10 760 3.67 2.45 5.49 -
129 SC21 IBMDL Sandbox SpectrumScale IBM 10 0 3.17 0.61 16.57 -
130 ISC20 LNCC SDumont Lustre Cay/HPE 10 240 3.06 2.32 4.02 -

Top 10 systems compared

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Score 100% Bandwidth 100% Metadata 100% Clients 100% Processes 100% #101 — Sherlock/Fir (Stanford) #102 — Orion (Mississippi State University High Performance Computing Collaboratory) #103 — PACE-Phoenix (Georgia Institute of Technology) #104 — Sol (Arizona State University) #105 — Cygnus (University of Tsukuba) #106 — HammerHead (SUSE) #107 — (Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia Research Campus) #108 — BEAR-AI (University of Birmingham) #109 — Hadley (Nanyang Technological University) #110 — SCC (GWDG)
  • #101 Sherlock/Fir Stanford
  • #102 Orion Mississippi State University High Performance Computing Collaboratory
  • #103 PACE-Phoenix Georgia Institute of Technology
  • #104 Sol Arizona State University
  • #105 Cygnus University of Tsukuba
  • #106 HammerHead SUSE
  • #107 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia Research Campus
  • #108 BEAR-AI University of Birmingham
  • #109 Hadley Nanyang Technological University
  • #110 SCC GWDG