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This is the full list released at Supercomputing 20. The list shows all submissions.

# BoF Information IO500 Repro.
Institution System · FS Type Storage Vendor Client Nodes Total Client Proc. Score BW MD
(GiB/s) (kIOP/s)
101 ISC20 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI SharedScratch Parallel Filesystem WekaIO 10 600 21.32 11.27 40.32 -
102 ISC20 Officinalis (1 Client) CephFS Red Hat, Intel, QCT 1 112 21.24 7.87 57.32 -
103 ISC20 Simon Fraser University Cedar Lustre Dell/Seagate 288 288 18.72 7.66 45.75 -
104 SC19 Stanford Sherlock/Fir Lustre Dell, QCT, HGST 10 240 18.25 5.23 63.74 -
105 SC20 The Science and Technology Facilities Council JASMIN 4 Quobyte Quobyte Inc. 48 336 17.55 19.76 15.60 -
106 SC20 University of Tsukuba Cygnus Gfarm OSS 10 20 16.12 8.10 32.09 -
107 ISC20 SUSE HammerHead CephFS SUSE/Ampere/Arm 10 220 15.61 7.34 33.22 -
108 SC19 University of Birmingham BEAR-AI Spectrum Scale DDN 10 80 15.39 2.74 86.48 -
109 ISC20 SUSE HammerHead CephFS SUSE/Ampere/Arm 10 220 15.38 7.04 33.57 -
110 ISC20 SUSE HammerHead CephFS SUSE/Ampere/Arm 10 200 15.07 7.05 32.21 -
111 SC19 SUSE TigerShark SUSE Enterprise Storage - CephFS SUSE, Intel, Lenovo 15 120 14.91 5.74 38.72 -
112 ISC20 SUSE HammerHead CephFS SUSE/Ampere/Arm 10 200 14.55 6.95 30.46 -
113 SC19 Nanyang Technological University Hadley GPFS DDN 10 640 12.89 7.47 22.24 -
114 SC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI Vast Scale-out NAS Vast Data 88 2,816 12.50 8.31 18.79 -
115 SC19 SUSE TigerShark SUSE Enterprise Storage - CephFS SUSE, Intel, Lenovo 10 80 12.43 4.64 33.34 -
116 ISC20 National Center for Supercomputing Applications NCSA Industry System Spectrum Scale DDN/Dell 8 96 12.37 3.03 50.54 -
117 SC20 The Science and Technology Facilities Council JASMIN 4 Quobyte Quobyte Inc. 10 240 11.34 12.34 10.43 -
118 ISC20 National Center for Supercomputing Applications HAL Spectrum Scale DDN 10 100 11.31 3.62 35.37 -
119 ISC20 National Center for Supercomputing Applications NCSA Industry System Spectrum Scale DDN/Dell 8 96 11.28 3.04 41.78 -
120 ISC20 National Center for Supercomputing Applications HAL Spectrum Scale DDN 10 100 11.13 3.63 34.15 -
121 SC20 EPCC Archer 2 (test system) Lustre Cray 10 80 10.68 2.63 43.43 -
122 SC20 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI Vast Scale-out NAS Vast Data 10 260 10.64 7.44 15.22 -
123 ISC20 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI Vast Scale-out NAS Vast Data 10 620 9.87 6.36 15.32 -
124 SC19 Stanford Sherlock/Oak Lustre Dell, QCT, HGST 10 240 9.31 1.89 45.87 -
125 SC19 IST Austria IST Austria HPC BeeGFS Homemade@IST 4 80 8.41 1.77 39.98 -
126 SC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI Vast Scale-out NAS Vast Data 10 820 8.01 6.31 10.17 -
127 ISC20 German Climate Computing Center Mistral Lustre1 Cray 10 120 7.92 2.93 21.36 -
128 ISC20 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI Vast Scale-out NAS Vast Data 10 620 7.27 5.96 8.86 -
129 SC19 Stanford Sherlock/Regal Lustre Dell 10 160 7.05 1.64 30.28 -
130 ISC20 German Climate Computing Center Mistral Lustre1 Cray 10 120 6.92 2.89 16.57 -
131 SC19 IST Austria IST Austria HPC BeeGFS Homemade@IST 10 100 6.63 1.39 31.62 -
132 SC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI dm11 Scale-out NAS #N/A 10 760 6.42 2.61 15.82 -
133 SC20 University of Reading ThunderX2 Local file system 1 16 6.23 0.37 104.54 -
134 ISC20 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI VastTest Scale-out NAS Vast Data 10 620 6.20 3.51 10.95 -
135 ISC20 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI VastTest Scale-out NAS Vast Data 10 620 5.68 3.67 8.80 -
136 ISC20 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI VastTest Scale-out NAS Vast Data 10 620 4.98 3.56 6.96 -
137 SC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI nrs Scale-out NAS Qumulo 10 760 4.19 2.88 6.11 -
138 SC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI nearline4 Scale-out NAS Qumulo 10 760 3.67 2.45 5.49 -
139 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 — SharedScratch (Janelia Research Campus, HHMI) #102 — Officinalis (1 Client) () #103 — Cedar (Simon Fraser University) #104 — Sherlock/Fir (Stanford) #105 — JASMIN 4 (The Science and Technology Facilities Council) #106 — Cygnus (University of Tsukuba) #107 — HammerHead (SUSE) #108 — BEAR-AI (University of Birmingham) #109 — HammerHead (SUSE) #110 — HammerHead (SUSE)
  • #101 SharedScratch Janelia Research Campus, HHMI
  • #102 Officinalis (1 Client)
  • #103 Cedar Simon Fraser University
  • #104 Sherlock/Fir Stanford
  • #105 JASMIN 4 The Science and Technology Facilities Council
  • #106 Cygnus University of Tsukuba
  • #107 HammerHead SUSE
  • #108 BEAR-AI University of Birmingham
  • #109 HammerHead SUSE
  • #110 HammerHead SUSE