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# BoF Information IO500 Repro.
Institution System · FS Type Storage Vendor Client Nodes Total Client Proc. Score BW MD
(GiB/s) (kIOP/s)
101 ISC20 Officinalis CephFS Red Hat, Intel, QCT 8 256 53.44 28.10 101.63 -
102 SC19 Google Cloud EXA5-GCP-PD-STD Lustre Google Cloud 200 1,600 52.96 17.31 162.06 -
103 SC19 National Supercomputing Center in Changsha Tianhe-2E Lustre National University of Defense Technology 10 160 52.58 35.06 78.86 -
104 SC20 Raytheon WekaIO wekafs Penguin Computing 42 1,596 50.58 16.39 156.10 -
105 SC19 National Supercomputing Center in Changsha Tianhe-2E Lustre National University of Defense Technology 10 160 50.08 32.71 76.67 -
106 SC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI SharedScratch wekaio WekaIO 18 1,368 48.75 26.22 90.62 -
107 SC19 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Oracle Cloud Infrastructure with Block Volume Service running Spectrum Scale Spectrum Scale Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Block Volumes Service 30 480 47.55 20.38 110.93 -
108 SC21 NLHPC Guacolda SpectrumScale IBM 10 360 45.26 17.91 114.36 -
109 SC19 National Supercomputing Centre, Singapore Aspire 1 IME DDN 10 160 43.04 101.75 18.21 -
110 SC19 Penguin Computing Benchmarking and Innovation Lab Penguin-ASG-NVBeeOne BeeGFS Penguin Computing/Excelero 10 320 39.65 17.71 88.76 -
111 SC19 CNES HAL Spectrum Scale DDN 96 96 37.16 9.71 142.20 -
112 SC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI SharedScratch Parallel Filesystem WekaIO 10 1,440 36.55 18.58 71.90 -
113 SC19 CNES HAL Spectrum Scale DDN 96 96 34.76 8.51 141.99 -
114 ISC20 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure BeeGFS on Oracle Cloud BeeGFS Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 10 160 32.79 14.02 76.67 -
115 SC20 Raytheon WekaIO wekafs Penguin Computing 10 440 32.20 14.83 69.88 -
116 ISC20 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI SharedScratch Parallel Filesystem WekaIO 10 600 31.39 12.34 79.83 -
117 ISC20 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI SharedScratch Parallel Filesystem WekaIO 10 600 30.83 13.35 71.22 -
118 SC20 Forschungszentrum Juelich (FZJ) JUWELS IME HPEDDN 10 400 29.81 178.11 4.99 -
119 ISC20 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure BeeGFS on Oracle Cloud BeeGFS Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 10 160 27.56 10.38 73.20 -
120 ISC20 Officinalis (1 Client) CephFS Red Hat, Intel, QCT 1 112 27.43 8.81 85.48 -
121 SC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI SharedScratch Parallel Filesystem WekaIO 10 400 24.70 16.32 37.37 -
122 ISC20 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI SharedScratch Parallel Filesystem WekaIO 10 600 24.19 11.85 49.39 -
123 SC21 HHMIJRC Janelia Compute Cluster Vast Vast Data 80 2,880 21.72 14.11 33.42 -
124 SC19 Clemson University Palmetto Burstbuffer BeeGFS AdvancedHPC 10 120 21.55 12.97 35.80 -
125 ISC20 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI SharedScratch Parallel Filesystem WekaIO 10 600 21.32 11.27 40.32 -
126 ISC20 Officinalis (1 Client) CephFS Red Hat, Intel, QCT 1 112 21.24 7.87 57.32 -
127 ISC20 Simon Fraser University Cedar Lustre Dell/Seagate 288 288 18.72 7.66 45.75 -
128 SC21 CMKL University Apex Lustre DDN 4 240 18.60 10.27 33.66 -
129 SC19 Stanford Sherlock/Fir Lustre Dell, QCT, HGST 10 240 18.25 5.23 63.74 -
130 SC20 The Science and Technology Facilities Council JASMIN 4 Quobyte Quobyte Inc. 48 336 17.55 19.76 15.60 -
131 ISC21 Georgia Institute of Technology PACE-Phoenix Lustre DDN 10 240 17.07 4.52 64.48 -
132 SC20 University of Tsukuba Cygnus Gfarm OSS 10 20 16.12 8.10 32.09 -
133 ISC20 SUSE HammerHead CephFS SUSE/Ampere/Arm 10 220 15.61 7.34 33.22 -
134 ISC21 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia Research Campus nrsv Vast 10 300 15.50 7.54 31.84 -
135 SC19 University of Birmingham BEAR-AI Spectrum Scale DDN 10 80 15.39 2.74 86.48 -
136 ISC20 SUSE HammerHead CephFS SUSE/Ampere/Arm 10 220 15.38 7.04 33.57 -
137 ISC20 SUSE HammerHead CephFS SUSE/Ampere/Arm 10 200 15.07 7.05 32.21 -
138 SC19 SUSE TigerShark SUSE Enterprise Storage - CephFS SUSE, Intel, Lenovo 15 120 14.91 5.74 38.72 -
139 ISC20 SUSE HammerHead CephFS SUSE/Ampere/Arm 10 200 14.55 6.95 30.46 -
140 SC19 Nanyang Technological University Hadley GPFS DDN 10 640 12.89 7.47 22.24 -
141 SC21 GWDG SCC BeeGFS 10 80 12.55 2.63 59.85 -
142 SC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI Vast Scale-out NAS Vast Data 88 2,816 12.50 8.31 18.79 -
143 SC19 SUSE TigerShark SUSE Enterprise Storage - CephFS SUSE, Intel, Lenovo 10 80 12.43 4.64 33.34 -
144 ISC20 National Center for Supercomputing Applications NCSA Industry System Spectrum Scale DDN/Dell 8 96 12.37 3.03 50.54 -
145 SC21 ULHPC Aion SpectrumScale DDN 128 256 11.35 1.80 71.57 -
146 SC20 The Science and Technology Facilities Council JASMIN 4 Quobyte Quobyte Inc. 10 240 11.34 12.34 10.43 -
147 ISC20 National Center for Supercomputing Applications HAL Spectrum Scale DDN 10 100 11.31 3.62 35.37 -
148 ISC20 National Center for Supercomputing Applications NCSA Industry System Spectrum Scale DDN/Dell 8 96 11.28 3.04 41.78 -
149 ISC20 National Center for Supercomputing Applications HAL Spectrum Scale DDN 10 100 11.13 3.63 34.15 -
150 SC20 EPCC Archer 2 (test system) Lustre Cray 10 80 10.68 2.63 43.43 -
151 SC20 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI Vast Scale-out NAS Vast Data 10 260 10.64 7.44 15.22 -
152 ISC20 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI Vast Scale-out NAS Vast Data 10 620 9.87 6.36 15.32 -
153 SC19 Stanford Sherlock/Oak Lustre Dell, QCT, HGST 10 240 9.31 1.89 45.87 -
154 SC19 IST Austria IST Austria HPC BeeGFS Homemade@IST 4 80 8.41 1.77 39.98 -
155 SC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI Vast Scale-out NAS Vast Data 10 820 8.01 6.31 10.17 -
156 ISC20 German Climate Computing Center Mistral Lustre1 Cray 10 120 7.92 2.93 21.36 -
157 ISC20 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI Vast Scale-out NAS Vast Data 10 620 7.27 5.96 8.86 -
158 SC19 Stanford Sherlock/Regal Lustre Dell 10 160 7.05 1.64 30.28 -
159 ISC20 German Climate Computing Center Mistral Lustre1 Cray 10 120 6.92 2.89 16.57 -
160 SC19 IST Austria IST Austria HPC BeeGFS Homemade@IST 10 100 6.63 1.39 31.62 -
161 SC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI dm11 Scale-out NAS #N/A 10 760 6.42 2.61 15.82 -
162 SC20 University of Reading ThunderX2 Local file system 1 16 6.23 0.37 104.54 -
163 ISC20 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI VastTest Scale-out NAS Vast Data 10 620 6.20 3.51 10.95 -
164 ISC20 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI VastTest Scale-out NAS Vast Data 10 620 5.68 3.67 8.80 -
165 ISC21 DKRZ Mistral Lustre Seagate/Cray 10 80 5.22 1.16 23.50 -
166 ISC20 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI VastTest Scale-out NAS Vast Data 10 620 4.98 3.56 6.96 -
167 SC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI nrs Scale-out NAS Qumulo 10 760 4.19 2.88 6.11 -
168 SC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI nearline4 Scale-out NAS Qumulo 10 760 3.67 2.45 5.49 -
169 SC21 IBMDL Sandbox SpectrumScale IBM 10 0 3.17 0.61 16.57 -
170 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 — Officinalis () #102 — EXA5-GCP-PD-STD (Google Cloud) #103 — Tianhe-2E (National Supercomputing Center in Changsha) #104 — WekaIO (Raytheon) #105 — Tianhe-2E (National Supercomputing Center in Changsha) #106 — SharedScratch (Janelia Research Campus, HHMI) #107 — Oracle Cloud Infrastructure with Block Volume Service running Spectrum Scale (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure) #108 — Guacolda (NLHPC) #109 — Aspire 1 (National Supercomputing Centre, Singapore) #110 — Penguin-ASG-NVBeeOne (Penguin Computing Benchmarking and Innovation Lab)
  • #101 Officinalis
  • #102 EXA5-GCP-PD-STD Google Cloud
  • #103 Tianhe-2E National Supercomputing Center in Changsha
  • #104 WekaIO Raytheon
  • #105 Tianhe-2E National Supercomputing Center in Changsha
  • #106 SharedScratch Janelia Research Campus, HHMI
  • #107 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure with Block Volume Service running Spectrum Scale Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
  • #108 Guacolda NLHPC
  • #109 Aspire 1 National Supercomputing Centre, Singapore
  • #110 Penguin-ASG-NVBeeOne Penguin Computing Benchmarking and Innovation Lab