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Institution System · FS Type Storage Vendor Client Nodes Total Client Proc. Score BW MD
(GiB/s) (kIOP/s)
1 ISC21 Pengcheng Laboratory Pengcheng Cloudbrain-II on Atlas 900 MadFS Pengcheng 512 36,864 36,850.40 3,421.62 396,872.82 -
2 SC20 Pengcheng Laboratory Pengcheng Cloudbrain-II on Atlas 900 MadFS Pengcheng Laboratory 255 18,360 7,043.99 1,475.75 33,622.19 -
3 SC20 Pengcheng Laboratory Pengcheng Cloudbrain-II on Atlas 900 MadFS Pengcheng Laboratory 256 18,432 6,831.55 1,524.11 30,621.10 -
4 SC21 Huawei HPDA Lab Athena OceanFS Huawei 10 1,720 2,395.03 314.56 18,235.71 -
5 SC21 Olympus Lab OceanStor Pacific OceanFS Huawei 10 1,720 2,298.69 317.07 16,664.88 -
6 SC21 Huawei Cloud Flashfs PDSL 15 1,560 2,016.70 109.82 37,034.00 -
7 ISC21 Intel Endeavour DAOS Intel 10 1,440 1,859.56 398.77 8,671.65 -
8 ISC20 Intel Wolf DAOS Intel 52 1,664 1,792.98 371.67 8,649.57 -
9 ISC20 Intel Wolf DAOS Intel 52 1,664 1,614.02 368.44 7,070.51 -
10 SC20 Pengcheng Laboratory Pengcheng Cloudbrain-II on Atlas 900 MadFS Pengcheng Laboratory 10 1,440 1,129.75 168.43 7,578.06 -
11 ISC21 Lenovo Lenovo-Lenox DAOS Lenovo 36 3,456 988.99 176.37 5,545.61 -
12 SC21 BPFS Lab Kongming BPFS 10 800 972.60 96.26 9,827.09 -
13 SC19 WekaIO WekaIO on AWS WekaIO Matrix WekaIO 345 8,625 938.95 174.74 5,045.33 -
14 SC19 Intel Wolf DAOS Intel 26 728 933.64 183.36 4,753.79 -
15 ISC20 TACC Frontera DAOS Intel 60 1,440 763.80 78.31 7,449.56 -
16 ISC20 Intel Wolf DAOS Intel 10 420 758.71 164.77 3,493.56 -
17 ISC20 TACC Frontera DAOS Intel 60 1,440 756.01 75.40 7,580.23 -
18 ISC20 Intel Wolf DAOS Intel 10 420 736.33 163.19 3,322.40 -
19 ISC19 University of Cambridge Data Accelerator Lustre Dell EMC 512 8,192 620.69 162.05 2,377.44 -
20 ISC21 National Supercomputer Center in GuangZhou Venus2 kapok National Supercomputer Center in GuangZhou 18 720 577.93 104.52 3,195.53 -
21 ISC21 Google Cloud Google Lustre DDN 1,000 5,000 569.99 282.78 1,148.90 -
22 ISC20 Argonne National Laboratory Presque DAOS Argonne National Laboratory 16 544 537.31 108.19 2,668.57 -
23 SC19 Intel Wolf DAOS Intel 10 310 516.41 123.89 2,152.46 -
24 SC21 National Research Center of Tranlational Medicine at Shanghai Ruijin Hospital ASTRA DAOS NRCTM 10 360 511.02 87.50 2,984.61 -
25 ISC20 TACC Frontera DAOS Intel 10 420 508.88 79.16 3,271.49 -
26 ISC20 TACC Frontera DAOS Intel 10 420 507.13 78.47 3,277.36 -
27 ISC20 Argonne National Laboratory Presque DAOS Argonne National Laboratory 16 544 483.52 102.54 2,280.05 -
28 SC19 National Supercomputing Center in Changsha Tianhe-2E Lustre National University of Defense Technology 480 5,280 453.68 209.43 982.78 -
29 ISC20 Argonne National Laboratory Presque DAOS Argonne National Laboratory 10 380 440.64 95.80 2,026.80 -
30 SC21 QCT DevCloud QCT DevCloud DAOS QCT 10 560 427.27 102.85 1,774.97 -
31 ISC21 Supermicro DAOS Supermicro 10 1,120 415.04 112.17 1,535.63 -
32 ISC20 Argonne National Laboratory Presque DAOS Argonne National Laboratory 10 380 398.25 89.36 1,774.79 -
33 SC20 Intel Endeavour DAOS Intel 10 640 353.72 43.59 2,870.64 -
34 SC18 Oak Ridge National Laboratory Summit Spectrum Scale IBM 504 1,008 330.56 88.20 1,238.93 -
35 ISC20 Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI) NURION IME DDN 2,048 2,048 282.45 515.59 154.74 -
36 ISC19 JCAHPC Oakforest-PACS IME DDN 2,048 2,048 275.65 492.06 154.41 -
37 ISC21 University of Florida HiPerGator Lustre DDN 140 4,480 269.59 181.37 400.73 -
38 ISC20 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure BeeGFS on Oracle Cloud BeeGFS Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 270 3,240 267.25 293.05 243.73 -
39 SC20 JCAHPC Oakforest-PACS IME DDN 2,048 4,096 253.57 697.20 92.22 -
40 SC19 NVIDIA DGX-2H SuperPOD Lustre DDN 10 400 249.50 86.97 715.76 -
41 SC20 EPCC NextGENIO GekkoFS BSC & JGU 10 3,800 239.37 45.79 1,251.32 -
42 SC19 University of Cambridge Data Accelerator Lustre Dell EMC 128 2,048 229.45 131.25 401.13 -
43 ISC21 Olympus Storage Technology Innovation Lab OceanStor OceanFS Huawei 10 960 220.10 69.49 697.15 -
44 SC19 CEA Tera-1000 Lustre DDN 128 4,096 210.26 81.01 545.74 -
45 ISC21 LuxProvide MeluXina Lustre DDN 512 12,288 194.12 112.06 336.25 -
46 ISC20 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure BeeGFS on Oracle Cloud BeeGFS Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 170 2,040 191.10 175.24 208.39 -
47 SC20 EPCC NextGENIO GekkoFS BSC & JGU 10 360 184.99 27.21 1,257.57 -
48 ISC20 JCAHPC Oakforest-PACS IME DDN 512 4,096 175.85 348.95 88.62 -
49 ISC20 JCAHPC Oakforest-PACS IME DDN 2,048 16,384 168.09 581.43 48.60 -
50 SC20 Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz MOGON II GekkoFS JGU (ADA-FS)& BSC (NEXTGenIO) 10 240 167.64 22.97 1,223.59 -
51 SC20 DDN DIME IME DDN 10 110 161.53 101.60 256.78 -
52 SC18 University of Cambridge Data Accelerator Lustre Dell EMC 528 4,224 158.71 71.40 352.75 -
53 SC18 Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI) NURION IME DDN 2,048 4,096 156.91 554.23 44.43 -
54 SC19 WekaIO WekaIO WekaIO Matrix WekaIO 10 2,610 156.51 56.22 435.76 -
55 ISC20 EPCC NextGENIO GekkoFS NextGenIO (BSC & JGU) 10 280 152.30 24.83 934.12 -
56 ISC20 EPCC NextGENIO GekkoFS NextGenIO (BSC & JGU) 10 280 149.92 24.91 902.12 -
57 ISC21 University of Tsukuba Cygnus CHFS OSS 10 240 148.69 30.39 727.61 -
58 ISC20 National Supercomputer Center in Guangzhou Venus2 kapok National Supercomputer Center in Guangzhou 10 260 148.08 30.62 716.11 -
59 ISC20 National Supercomputer Center in Guangzhou Venus2 kapok National Supercomputer Center in Guangzhou 10 260 146.42 28.99 739.49 -
60 ISC20 JCAHPC Oakforest-PACS IME DDN 512 4,096 146.33 341.29 62.74 -
61 ISC18 JCAHPC Oakforest-PACS IME DDN 2,048 16,384 137.78 560.10 33.89 -
62 ISC20 DDN AI400X Lustre DDN 40 1,280 137.03 46.84 400.84 -
63 SC20 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI SharedScratch Parallel Filesystem WekaIO 48 1,248 134.09 48.03 374.40 -
64 ISC21 Joint Institute of Nuclear Research Govorun DAOS RSC 10 160 132.07 20.19 863.69 -
65 ISC20 DDN AI400X Lustre DDN 40 1,280 127.29 40.72 397.91 -
66 SC20 Joint Supercomputer Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences MVS10POP2 Lustre RSC Group 54 864 125.50 45.31 347.61 -
67 SC19 EPCC NextGENIO GekkoFS NextGenIO (BSC & JGU) 10 240 125.08 21.47 728.68 -
68 SC20 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI SharedScratch Parallel Filesystem WekaIO 40 1,040 123.47 43.63 349.44 -
69 ISC20 DDN DIME IME DDN 10 110 116.95 100.37 136.27 -
70 ISC19 DDN IME140 IME DDN 17 272 112.67 90.34 140.52 -
71 SC20 TACC Frontera IME DDN 10 280 109.91 176.23 68.55 -
72 ISC19 DDN Colorado DDN IME140 IME DDN 10 160 109.42 75.79 157.96 -
73 ISC19 DDN AI400 Lustre DDN 10 160 104.34 19.65 553.98 -
74 ISC20 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure BeeGFS on Oracle Cloud BeeGFS Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 270 3,240 104.30 47.44 229.33 -
75 ISC21 Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology Earth Simulator Lustre DDN 10 320 101.88 48.19 215.38 -
76 ISC18 JCAHPC Oakforest-PACS IME DDN 2,048 16,384 101.48 471.25 21.85 -
77 ISC20 CSIRO bracewell Lustre Dell/DDN 10 400 99.64 39.90 248.81 -
78 ISC19 University of Cambridge Data Accelerator Lustre Dell EMC 10 320 98.31 26.94 358.85 -
79 ISC20 CSIRO bracewell Lustre Dell/DDN 10 400 97.67 39.87 239.26 -
80 ISC20 Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz MOGON II GekkoFS JGU (ADA-FS)& BSC (NEXTGenIO) 10 160 96.46 11.61 801.60 -
81 ISC19 DDN IME140 IME DDN 10 160 95.10 76.89 117.62 -
82 SC19 CSIRO bracewell scratch2 beegfs Dell/ThinkParQ 26 260 94.86 69.10 130.23 -
83 ISC20 Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz MOGON II GekkoFS JGU (ADA-FS)& BSC (NEXTGenIO) 10 160 92.91 10.96 787.71 -
84 ISC20 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure BeeGFS on Oracle Cloud BeeGFS Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 170 2,040 91.48 42.65 196.20 -
85 ISC20 JINR Govorun Lustre RSC Group 50 800 90.87 35.61 231.88 -
86 ISC20 JINR Govorun Lustre RSC Group 50 800 88.51 36.28 215.97 -
87 ISC19 CSIRO bracewell BeeGFS Dell/ThinkParQ 26 260 88.26 67.44 115.50 -
88 SC21 Raytheon MCK-HPC WekaFS Penguin Computing 44 1,584 86.24 27.64 269.10 -
89 SC21 NLHPC Guacolda SpectrumScale IBM 24 480 83.18 33.87 204.27 -
90 SC19 State Key Laboratory of High-end Server & Storage Technology (HSS) TStor3000 BeeGFS INSPUR 10 300 82.57 41.14 165.71 -
91 SC19 iFLYTEK iFLYTEK YRCloudFile Yanrong 10 200 78.54 13.55 455.18 -
92 SC18 WekaIO WekaIO WekaIO 17 935 78.37 37.39 164.26 -
93 ISC18 KAUST ShaheenII DataWarp Cray 1,024 8,192 77.37 496.81 12.05 -
94 SC20 NASA hyperwall4 SSD Intel. SK-Hynx 128 1,024 75.75 122.24 46.94 -
95 SC18 University of Cambridge Data Accelerator BeeGFS Dell EMC 184 5,888 74.58 58.81 94.57 -
96 ISC19 DDN Japan AI400 Lustre DDN 10 160 74.10 12.22 449.28 -
97 ISC20 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure SpectrumScale on Oracle Cloud Spectrum Scale Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 48 768 70.91 34.91 144.06 -
98 ISC18 KAUST ShaheenII DataWarp Cray 300 2,400 70.90 151.53 33.17 -
99 ISC20 DDN AI400X Lustre DDN 10 160 69.92 21.01 232.70 -
100 SC21 IBM Tucson Arches 2021B SpectrumScale IBM 10 200 68.83 33.02 143.46 -

Top 10 systems compared

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Score 100% Bandwidth 100% Metadata 100% Clients 100% Processes 100% #1 — Pengcheng Cloudbrain-II on Atlas 900 (Pengcheng Laboratory) #2 — Pengcheng Cloudbrain-II on Atlas 900 (Pengcheng Laboratory) #3 — Pengcheng Cloudbrain-II on Atlas 900 (Pengcheng Laboratory) #4 — Athena (Huawei HPDA Lab) #5 — OceanStor Pacific (Olympus Lab) #6 — (Huawei Cloud) #7 — Endeavour (Intel) #8 — Wolf (Intel) #9 — Wolf (Intel) #10 — Pengcheng Cloudbrain-II on Atlas 900 (Pengcheng Laboratory)
  • #1 Pengcheng Cloudbrain-II on Atlas 900 Pengcheng Laboratory
  • #2 Pengcheng Cloudbrain-II on Atlas 900 Pengcheng Laboratory
  • #3 Pengcheng Cloudbrain-II on Atlas 900 Pengcheng Laboratory
  • #4 Athena Huawei HPDA Lab
  • #5 OceanStor Pacific Olympus Lab
  • #6 Huawei Cloud
  • #7 Endeavour Intel
  • #8 Wolf Intel
  • #9 Wolf Intel
  • #10 Pengcheng Cloudbrain-II on Atlas 900 Pengcheng Laboratory