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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 ISC20 Red Hat EC2-10xi3en.metal CephFS Red Hat 10 320 57.17 26.29 124.30 -
102 ISC24 Saudi ARAMCO CSSP EXAScaler DDN 93 744 55.11 38.14 79.63
103 SC19 Google Cloud EXA5-GCP-PD-STD Lustre Google Cloud 200 1,600 52.96 17.31 162.06 -
104 SC20 Raytheon WekaIO wekafs Penguin Computing 42 1,596 50.58 16.39 156.10 -
105 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 -
106 ISC25 Universidad Carlos III de Madrid C3-UC3M Expand ARCOS-UC3M 10 640 47.50 18.87 119.55
107 SC23 Telecommunications Technology Association KR580S1 Lustre Gluesys 10 320 44.82 23.29 86.26
108 SC19 Penguin Computing Benchmarking and Innovation Lab Penguin-ASG-NVBeeOne BeeGFS Penguin Computing/Excelero 10 320 39.65 17.71 88.76 -
109 SC19 CNES HAL Spectrum Scale DDN 96 96 37.16 9.71 142.20 -
110 SC24 Gesellschaft fur wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung Emmy CephFS Clyso 18 270 32.17 11.92 86.81
111 SC23 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia Research Campus Janelia Compute Cluster Vast Vast Data 32 2,048 26.83 11.45 62.84
112 SC23 Universidad Carlos III de Madrid MareNostrum 4 Expand ARCOS-UC3M 10 320 22.77 23.88 21.71
113 ISC25 GWDG Future Technology Platform Lustre Intel 21 420 22.08 6.49 75.14
114 SC19 Clemson University Palmetto Burstbuffer BeeGFS AdvancedHPC 10 120 21.55 12.97 35.80 -
115 SC23 Mississippi State University High Performance Computing Collaboratory Orion Lustre DDN 10 400 20.83 5.01 86.67
116 ISC20 Simon Fraser University Cedar Lustre Dell/Seagate 288 288 18.72 7.66 45.75 -
117 SC23 Mississippi State University High Performance Computing Collaboratory Orion Lustre DDN 10 400 17.57 6.43 48.03
118 SC20 The Science and Technology Facilities Council JASMIN 4 Quobyte Quobyte Inc. 48 336 17.55 19.76 15.60 -
119 ISC21 Georgia Institute of Technology PACE-Phoenix Lustre DDN 10 240 17.07 4.52 64.48 -
120 ISC23 Arizona State University Sol BeeGFS Dell 10 160 16.48 4.40 61.76
121 SC20 University of Tsukuba Cygnus Gfarm OSS 10 20 16.12 8.10 32.09 -
122 ISC21 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia Research Campus nrsv Vast 10 300 15.50 7.54 31.84 -
123 SC19 SUSE TigerShark SUSE Enterprise Storage - CephFS SUSE, Intel, Lenovo 15 120 14.91 5.74 38.72 -
124 SC21 GWDG SCC BeeGFS 10 80 12.55 2.63 59.85 -
125 SC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI Vast Scale-out NAS Vast Data 88 2,816 12.50 8.31 18.79 -
126 SC21 ULHPC Aion SpectrumScale DDN 128 256 11.35 1.80 71.57 -
127 ISC20 National Center for Supercomputing Applications HAL Spectrum Scale DDN 10 100 11.31 3.62 35.37 -
128 SC20 EPCC Archer 2 (test system) Lustre Cray 10 80 10.68 2.63 43.43 -
129 ISC23 Panasas PanEast ActiveStor Flash Panfs Panasas 10 80 10.57 4.49 24.90
130 SC22 Omnibond OrangeFS-Google OrangeFS Omnibond-Google 10 150 9.92 4.27 23.08 -
131 SC23 Eikon Therapeutics spt-compute1 Qumulo Core Qumulo 20 40 7.58 2.82 20.38 -
132 SC19 Stanford Sherlock/Regal Lustre Dell 10 160 7.05 1.64 30.28 -
133 SC23 LCPQ Ampere BeeGFS Home made 10 30 6.65 1.22 36.16
134 SC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI dm11 Scale-out NAS #N/A 10 760 6.42 2.61 15.82 -
135 ISC23 Panasas PanEast ActiveStor UltraXL Panfs Panasas 10 80 6.25 1.86 21.01
136 ISC21 DKRZ Mistral Lustre Seagate/Cray 10 80 5.22 1.16 23.50 -
137 SC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI nrs Scale-out NAS Qumulo 10 760 4.19 2.88 6.11 -
138 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 — EC2-10xi3en.metal (Red Hat) #102 — CSSP (Saudi ARAMCO) #103 — EXA5-GCP-PD-STD (Google Cloud) #104 — WekaIO (Raytheon) #105 — Oracle Cloud Infrastructure with Block Volume Service running Spectrum Scale (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure) #106 — C3-UC3M (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) #107 — KR580S1 (Telecommunications Technology Association) #108 — Penguin-ASG-NVBeeOne (Penguin Computing Benchmarking and Innovation Lab) #109 — HAL (CNES) #110 — Emmy (Gesellschaft fur wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung)
  • #101 EC2-10xi3en.metal Red Hat
  • #102 CSSP Saudi ARAMCO
  • #103 EXA5-GCP-PD-STD Google Cloud
  • #104 WekaIO Raytheon
  • #105 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure with Block Volume Service running Spectrum Scale Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
  • #106 C3-UC3M Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
  • #107 KR580S1 Telecommunications Technology Association
  • #108 Penguin-ASG-NVBeeOne Penguin Computing Benchmarking and Innovation Lab
  • #109 HAL CNES
  • #110 Emmy Gesellschaft fur wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung