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Research SC17 List

This is the official list from Supercomputing 2017.

# BoF Information IO500 Repro.
Institution System · FS Type Storage Vendor Client Nodes Total Client Proc. Score BW MD
(GiB/s) (kIOP/s)
1 ISC18 JCAHPC Oakforest-PACS IME DDN 2,048 16,384 101.48 471.25 21.85 -
2 ISC18 KAUST ShaheenII DataWarp Cray 300 2,400 70.90 151.53 33.17 -
3 ISC18 KAUST ShaheenII Lustre Cray 1,000 16,000 41.00 54.17 31.03 -
4 ISC18 JSC JURON BeeGFS ThinkparQ 8 64 35.77 14.24 89.81 -
5 ISC18 DKRZ Mistral Lustre Seagate 100 1,000 32.15 22.77 45.39 -
6 ISC18 Fraunhofer Seislab BeeGFS ThinkparQ 24 24 18.75 5.13 56.14 -
7 ISC18 PNNL EMSL Cascade Lustre 126 252 11.17 4.88 25.33 -
8 ISC18 SNL Serrano Spectrum Scale IBM 16 160 4.25 0.65 27.98 -

Top 8 systems compared

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Score 100% Bandwidth 100% Metadata 100% Clients 100% Processes 100% #1 — Oakforest-PACS (JCAHPC) #2 — ShaheenII (KAUST) #3 — ShaheenII (KAUST) #4 — JURON (JSC) #5 — Mistral (DKRZ) #6 — Seislab (Fraunhofer) #7 — EMSL Cascade (PNNL) #8 — Serrano (SNL)
  • #1 Oakforest-PACS JCAHPC
  • #2 ShaheenII KAUST
  • #3 ShaheenII KAUST
  • #4 JURON JSC
  • #5 Mistral DKRZ
  • #6 Seislab Fraunhofer
  • #7 EMSL Cascade PNNL
  • #8 Serrano SNL