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This is the list from Supercomputing 2020 compiled with the data announced by IO500.

The list shows the best result for a given combination of system/institution/filesystem.

# Information IO500
BoF Institution System Storage Vendor File System Type Client Nodes Total Client Proc. Score BW MD Repro.
(GiB/s) (kIOP/s)
1 ISC20 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure BeeGFS on Oracle Cloud Oracle Cloud Infrastructure BeeGFS 270 3,240 267.25 293.05 243.73 -
2 SC19 State Key Laboratory of High-end Server & Storage Technology (HSS) TStor3000 INSPUR BeeGFS 10 300 82.57 41.14 165.71 -
3 SC19 Penguin Computing Benchmarking and Innovation Lab Penguin-ASG-NVBeeOne Penguin Computing/Excelero BeeGFS 10 320 39.65 17.71 88.76 -
4 SC19 Clemson University Palmetto Burstbuffer AdvancedHPC BeeGFS 10 120 21.55 12.97 35.80 -
5 ISC20 Red Hat EC2-10xi3en.metal Red Hat CephFS 10 320 57.17 26.29 124.30 -
6 ISC20 Intel Wolf Intel DAOS 52 1,664 1,792.98 371.67 8,649.57 -
7 ISC20 TACC Frontera Intel DAOS 60 1,440 763.80 78.31 7,449.56 -
8 ISC20 Argonne National Laboratory Presque Argonne National Laboratory DAOS 16 544 537.31 108.19 2,668.57 -
9 SC20 Intel Endeavour Intel DAOS 10 640 353.72 43.59 2,870.64 -
10 SC20 EPCC NextGENIO BSC & JGU GekkoFS 10 3,800 239.37 45.79 1,251.32 -
11 SC20 Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz MOGON II JGU (ADA-FS)& BSC (NEXTGenIO) GekkoFS 10 240 167.64 22.97 1,223.59 -
12 SC20 University of Tsukuba Cygnus OSS Gfarm 10 20 16.12 8.10 32.09 -
13 ISC20 Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI) NURION DDN IME 2,048 2,048 282.45 515.59 154.74 -
14 SC20 JCAHPC Oakforest-PACS DDN IME 2,048 4,096 253.57 697.20 92.22 -
15 SC19 National Supercomputing Center in Changsha Tianhe-2E National University of Defense Technology Lustre 480 5,280 453.68 209.43 982.78 -
16 SC19 NVIDIA DGX-2H SuperPOD DDN Lustre 10 400 249.50 86.97 715.76 -
17 SC19 University of Cambridge Data Accelerator Dell EMC Lustre 128 2,048 229.45 131.25 401.13 -
18 SC19 CEA Tera-1000 DDN Lustre 128 4,096 210.26 81.01 545.74 -
19 ISC20 DDN AI400X DDN Lustre 40 1,280 137.03 46.84 400.84 -
20 SC20 Joint Supercomputer Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences MVS10POP2 RSC Group Lustre 54 864 125.50 45.31 347.61 -
21 ISC20 CSIRO bracewell Dell/DDN Lustre 10 400 99.64 39.90 248.81 -
22 ISC20 JINR Govorun RSC Group Lustre 50 800 90.87 35.61 231.88 -
23 SC19 Google Cloud EXA5-GCP-PD-SSD Google Cloud Lustre 200 1,600 67.78 26.93 170.61 -
24 ISC20 SPbPU Polytechnic RSC Tornado RSC Group Lustre 59 944 64.29 21.56 191.73 -
25 SC19 DDN AI400 DDN Lustre 10 240 63.88 19.65 207.63 -
26 SC19 Google Cloud EXA5-GCP-PD-STD Google Cloud Lustre 200 1,600 52.96 17.31 162.06 -
27 ISC20 Simon Fraser University Cedar Dell/Seagate Lustre 288 288 18.72 7.66 45.75 -
28 SC20 EPCC Archer 2 (test system) Cray Lustre 10 80 10.68 2.63 43.43 -
29 SC19 Stanford Sherlock/Regal Dell Lustre 10 160 7.05 1.64 30.28 -
30 SC20 Pengcheng Laboratory Pengcheng Cloudbrain-II on Atlas 900 Pengcheng Laboratory MadFS 255 18,360 7,043.99 1,475.75 33,622.19 -
31 SC20 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI SharedScratch WekaIO Parallel Filesystem 48 1,248 134.09 48.03 374.40 -
32 SC20 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI SharedScratch WekaIO Parallel Filesystem 40 1,040 123.47 43.63 349.44 -
33 SC20 The Science and Technology Facilities Council JASMIN 4 Quobyte Inc. Quobyte 48 336 17.55 19.76 15.60 -
34 SC20 NASA hyperwall4 Intel. SK-Hynx SSD 128 1,024 75.75 122.24 46.94 -
35 SC19 SUSE TigerShark SUSE, Intel, Lenovo SUSE Enterprise Storage - CephFS 15 120 14.91 5.74 38.72 -
36 SC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI Vast Vast Data Scale-out NAS 88 2,816 12.50 8.31 18.79 -
37 SC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI dm11 #N/A Scale-out NAS 10 760 6.42 2.61 15.82 -
38 SC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI nrs Qumulo Scale-out NAS 10 760 4.19 2.88 6.11 -
39 SC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI nearline4 Qumulo Scale-out NAS 10 760 3.67 2.45 5.49 -
40 ISC20 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure SpectrumScale on Oracle Cloud Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Spectrum Scale 48 768 70.91 34.91 144.06 -
41 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 -
42 SC19 CNES HAL DDN Spectrum Scale 96 96 37.16 9.71 142.20 -
43 ISC20 National Center for Supercomputing Applications HAL DDN Spectrum Scale 10 100 11.31 3.62 35.37 -
44 SC19 WekaIO WekaIO on AWS WekaIO WekaIO Matrix 345 8,625 938.95 174.74 5,045.33 -
45 SC19 CSIRO bracewell scratch2 Dell/ThinkParQ beegfs 26 260 94.86 69.10 130.23 -
46 SC20 Raytheon WekaIO Penguin Computing wekafs 42 1,596 50.58 16.39 156.10 -
47 SC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI SharedScratch WekaIO wekaio 18 1,368 48.75 26.22 90.62 -