Submit your IO500 results for the upcoming SC'26 list, which will be presented at our BOF. See the Call for Submissions for details.

Research SC18 List

CustomizeDownload
Research 10 Node Research

This is the official ranked list1 from SC 2018. The list shows the best result for a given combination of system/institution/filesystem.

1That means only those entries that qualify according to the wish of the submitter are contained.

# BoF Information IO500 Repro.
Institution System · FS Type Storage Vendor Client Nodes Total Client Proc. Score BW MD
(GiB/s) (kIOP/s)
1 SC18 University of Cambridge Data Accelerator Lustre Dell EMC 528 4,224 158.71 71.40 352.75 -
2 ISC18 JCAHPC Oakforest-PACS IME DDN 2,048 16,384 137.78 560.10 33.89 -
3 ISC18 KAUST ShaheenII DataWarp Cray 1,024 8,192 77.37 496.81 12.05 -
4 SC18 University of Cambridge Data Accelerator BeeGFS Dell EMC 184 5,888 74.58 58.81 94.57 -
5 SC18 JCAHPC Oakforest-PACS Lustre DDN 256 8,192 42.18 20.04 88.78 -
6 ISC18 KAUST ShaheenII Lustre Cray 1,000 16,000 41.00 54.17 31.03 -
7 ISC18 JSC JURON BeeGFS ThinkparQ 8 64 35.77 14.24 89.81 -
8 ISC18 DKRZ Mistral Lustre Seagate 100 1,000 32.15 22.77 45.39 -
9 SC18 DDN Bancholab Lustre DDN 10 240 31.78 6.33 156.69 -
10 ISC18 IBM Sonasad Spectrum Scale IBM 10 10 24.24 4.57 128.61 -
11 SC18 Clemson University ofsdev BeeGFS Dell 32 32 22.02 8.55 56.68 -
12 ISC18 Fraunhofer Seislab BeeGFS ThinkparQ 24 24 16.96 5.13 56.14 -
13 ISC18 Joint Institute for Nuclear Research Govorun Lustre RSC 24 192 12.08 3.34 43.65 -
14 ISC18 PNNL EMSL Cascade Lustre 126 252 11.12 4.88 25.33 -
15 SC18 Queen Mary; University Of London Apocrita GPFS E8 10 240 9.79 4.32 21.55 -
16 SC18 Clemson University Palmetto BeeGFS Dell 48 48 8.46 2.93 19.88 -
17 SC18 CERN Bytecollider CephFS 64 64 7.56 2.83 20.16 -
18 ISC18 SNL Serrano Spectrum Scale IBM 16 160 4.25 0.65 27.98 -
19 SC18 Nemours nas6 GPFS DDN 1 2 2.92 1.39 3.04 -
20 ISC18 STFC Jasmin/Lotus NFS Purestorage 64 128 2.33 0.26 20.93 -
21 SC18 Nemours nas6 GPFS DDN 1 2 2.16 0.74 3.11 -

Top 10 systems compared

Each axis is scaled to the highest value among these systems — 100% marks the leader on that dimension. Click a system below to toggle it.

Score 100% Bandwidth 100% Metadata 100% Clients 100% Processes 100% #1 — Data Accelerator (University of Cambridge) #2 — Oakforest-PACS (JCAHPC) #3 — ShaheenII (KAUST) #4 — Data Accelerator (University of Cambridge) #5 — Oakforest-PACS (JCAHPC) #6 — ShaheenII (KAUST) #7 — JURON (JSC) #8 — Mistral (DKRZ) #9 — Bancholab (DDN) #10 — Sonasad (IBM)
  • #1 Data Accelerator University of Cambridge
  • #2 Oakforest-PACS JCAHPC
  • #3 ShaheenII KAUST
  • #4 Data Accelerator University of Cambridge
  • #5 Oakforest-PACS JCAHPC
  • #6 ShaheenII KAUST
  • #7 JURON JSC
  • #8 Mistral DKRZ
  • #9 Bancholab DDN
  • #10 Sonasad IBM