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Research SC23 List

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Ranking of the research system submissions. This is a subset of the Full List of submissions, showing only one highest-scoring result per storage system. This list also contains all valid IO500 submissions prior to the creation of the Research List.
# BoF Information IO500 Repro.
Institution System · FS Type Storage Vendor Client Nodes Total Client Proc. Score BW MD
(GiB/s) (kIOP/s)
101 SC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI Vast Scale-out NAS Vast Data 88 2,816 12.50 8.31 18.79 -
102 SC21 ULHPC Aion SpectrumScale DDN 128 256 11.35 1.80 71.57 -
103 ISC20 National Center for Supercomputing Applications HAL Spectrum Scale DDN 10 100 11.31 3.62 35.37 -
104 SC20 EPCC Archer 2 (test system) Lustre Cray 10 80 10.68 2.63 43.43 -
105 ISC23 Panasas PanEast ActiveStor Flash Panfs Panasas 10 80 10.57 4.49 24.90
106 SC22 Omnibond OrangeFS-Google OrangeFS Omnibond-Google 10 150 9.92 4.27 23.08 -
107 SC23 Eikon Therapeutics spt-compute1 Qumulo Core Qumulo 20 40 7.58 2.82 20.38 -
108 SC19 Stanford Sherlock/Regal Lustre Dell 10 160 7.05 1.64 30.28 -
109 SC23 LCPQ Ampere BeeGFS Home made 10 30 6.65 1.22 36.16
110 SC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI dm11 Scale-out NAS #N/A 10 760 6.42 2.61 15.82 -
111 ISC23 Panasas PanEast ActiveStor UltraXL Panfs Panasas 10 80 6.25 1.86 21.01
112 ISC21 DKRZ Mistral Lustre Seagate/Cray 10 80 5.22 1.16 23.50 -
113 SC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI nrs Scale-out NAS Qumulo 10 760 4.19 2.88 6.11 -
114 SC21 IBMDL Sandbox SpectrumScale IBM 10 0 3.17 0.61 16.57 -

Top 10 systems compared

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Score 100% Bandwidth 100% Metadata 100% Clients 100% Processes 100% #101 — Vast (Janelia Research Campus, HHMI) #102 — Aion (ULHPC) #103 — HAL (National Center for Supercomputing Applications) #104 — Archer 2 (test system) (EPCC) #105 — PanEast ActiveStor Flash (Panasas ) #106 — OrangeFS-Google (Omnibond) #107 — spt-compute1 (Eikon Therapeutics) #108 — Sherlock/Regal (Stanford) #109 — Ampere (LCPQ) #110 — dm11 (Janelia Research Campus, HHMI)
  • #101 Vast Janelia Research Campus, HHMI
  • #102 Aion ULHPC
  • #103 HAL National Center for Supercomputing Applications
  • #104 Archer 2 (test system) EPCC
  • #105 PanEast ActiveStor Flash Panasas
  • #106 OrangeFS-Google Omnibond
  • #107 spt-compute1 Eikon Therapeutics
  • #108 Sherlock/Regal Stanford
  • #109 Ampere LCPQ
  • #110 dm11 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI