News

Announcements, list releases, and press coverage from the IO500 community.

2026

2025

2024

2023

The thirteenth IO500 lists are published at SC'23.
  • Congratulations to Argonne National Laboratory for their Aurora DAOS submission that took over the #1 spot on the Production list, and also the "10 Node Challenge Production" list. Pengcheng Laboratory and their Cloudbrain-II system using MadFS maintained the #1 Research spot, while JNIST and HUST PDSL maintained the #1 spot on the "10 Node Challenge Research" list with OceanFS2.
The twelfth IO500 lists are published at ISC'23.
  • Congratulations to LRZ for their SuperMUC-NG DAOS submission that had #1 spot on the innaugural Production list, and also the "10 Node Challenge Production" list. Pengcheng Laboratory and their Cloudbrain-II system using MadFS maintained the #1 Research spot, while JNIST and HUST PDSL took over the #1 spot on the "10 Node Challenge Research" list with OceanFS2.

2022

The eleventh IO500 lists are published at SC'22.
  • Congratulations again to Pengcheng Laboratory for their Cloudbrain-II system using MadFS, which maintained the #1 overall spot, while Argonne National Laboratory debut a new DAOS system for their Aurora cluster in the #2 spot. Sugon Cloud Storage Laboratory maintained the #1 spot on the "10 Node Challenge" list.
The tenth IO500 list is published at ISC'22.
  • Congratulations again to Pengcheng Laboratory for their Cloudbrain-II system using MadFS, which maintained the #1 overall spot. The Sugon Cloud Storage Laboratory won the "10 Node Challenge".

2021

The ninth IO500 list is published at SC'21.
  • Congratulations again to Pengcheng Laboratory for their Cloudbrain-II system using MadFS, which maintained the #1 overall spot and also won the "10 Node Challenge", and to Huawei with new systems in second and third place.
The eighth IO500 list is published at ISC'21.
  • Congratulations to Pengcheng Laboratory for their Cloudbrain-II system using MadFS, which maintained the #1 overall spot and also won the "10 Node Challenge".

2020

The seventh IO500 list is published at SC'20.
The sixth IO500 list is published at ISC'20.

2019

The fifth IO500 list is published at SC'19.
The fourth IO500 list is published at ISC'19.

2018

The third IO500 list is published.
  • Congrats to ORNL for their Summit machine which took over the #1 overall spot and also won the "10 Node Challenge".
  • A total of 54 new submissions from 19 different institutions!
The second IO500 list is published. Congrats again to Oakforest-PACS.

2017

The first IO500 list is published. We congratulate Oakforest-PACS for their winning submission.

Other public discussion

Papers

User-Centric System Fault Identification Using IO500 Benchmark

Radita Liem, Dmytro Povaliaiev, Jay Lofstead, Julian Kunkel, Christian Terboven

2021 IEEE/ACM Sixth International Parallel Data Systems Workshop (PDSW), 2021 · DOI 10.1109/PDSW54622.2021.00011

Cite (BibTeX)
@inproceedings{liem:2021:user,
    title = {User-Centric System Fault Identification Using IO500 Benchmark},
    author = {Liem, Radita and Povaliaiev, Dmytro and Lofstead, Jay and Kunkel, Julian and Terboven, Christian},
    booktitle = {2021 IEEE/ACM Sixth International Parallel Data Systems Workshop (PDSW)},
    pages = {35--40},
    year = {2021},
    organization = {IEEE},
    doi = {10.1109/PDSW54622.2021.00011}
}

Benchmarking Parallel File System Sensitiveness to I/O Patterns

Konstantinos Chasapis, Jean-Yves Vet, Jean-Thomas Acquaviva

2019 IEEE 27th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS), 2019 · DOI 10.1109/MASCOTS.2019.00054

Cite (BibTeX)
@inproceedings{chasapis:2019:benchmarking,
    title = {Benchmarking Parallel File System Sensitiveness to I/O Patterns},
    author = {Chasapis, Konstantinos and Vet, Jean-Yves and Acquaviva, Jean-Thomas},
    booktitle = {2019 IEEE 27th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS)},
    pages = {427--428},
    year = {2019},
    organization = {IEEE},
    doi = {10.1109/MASCOTS.2019.00054}
}

Profiling Platform Storage using IO500 and Mistral

Nolan Monnier, Jay Lofstead, Margaret Lawson, Matthew Curry

2019 IEEE/ACM Fourth International Parallel Data Systems Workshop (PDSW), 2019 · DOI 10.1109/PDSW49588.2019.00011

Cite (BibTeX)
@inproceedings{monnier:2019:profiling,
    title = {Profiling Platform Storage using IO500 and Mistral},
    author = {Monnier, Nolan and Lofstead, Jay and Lawson, Margaret and Curry, Matthew},
    booktitle = {2019 IEEE/ACM Fourth International Parallel Data Systems Workshop (PDSW)},
    pages = {60--73},
    year = {2019},
    organization = {IEEE},
    doi = {10.1109/PDSW49588.2019.00011}
}

Scaling High-Performance Parallel File Systems in the Cloud

James Beckett, Eric Kim, Evan Stanton, David Liu, Vishank Rughwani, Seungmin Hwang, Joaquin Chung, Rob Fatland, Nam Pho

2018 IEEE/ACM International Parallel Data Systems Workshop (PDSW), 2018

Cite (BibTeX)
@inproceedings{beckett:2018:scaling,
    title = {Scaling High-Performance Parallel File Systems in the Cloud},
    author = {Beckett, James and Kim, Eric and Stanton, Evan and Liu, David and Rughwani, Vishank and Hwang, Seungmin and Chung, Joaquin and Fatland, Rob and Pho, Nam},
    booktitle = {2018 IEEE/ACM International Parallel Data Systems Workshop (PDSW)},
    year = {2018},
    organization = {IEEE}
}

Establishing the IO-500 Benchmark

J Kunkel, John Bent, Jay Lofstead, George S Markomanolis

White Paper, 2016

Cite (BibTeX)
@article{kunkel:2016:establishing,
    title = {Establishing the IO-500 Benchmark},
    author = {Kunkel, J and Bent, John and Lofstead, Jay and Markomanolis, George S},
    journal = {White Paper},
    year = {2016}
}

Datasets

IO500 ISC22 Lists

Jay Lofstead, Georgio Markomanolis, Julian Kunkel, Andreas Dilger, Dean Hildebrand

Zenodo, 2022 · DOI 10.5281/zenodo.6772541

Cite (BibTeX)
@dataset{io500:2022:05,
    author = {Lofstead, Jay and Markomanolis, Georgio and Kunkel, Julian and Dilger, Andreas and Hildebrand, Dean},
    title = {IO500 ISC22 Lists},
    month = {May},
    year = {2022},
    publisher = {Zenodo},
    version = {1.0},
    doi = {10.5281/zenodo.6772541},
    url = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6772541}
}

IO500 SC21 Lists

Jay Lofstead, Georgio Markomanolis, Julian Kunkel, Andreas Dilger, Dean Hildebrand

Zenodo, 2021 · DOI 10.5281/zenodo.6462508

Cite (BibTeX)
@dataset{io500:2021:11,
    author = {Lofstead, Jay and Markomanolis, Georgio and Kunkel, Julian and Dilger, Andreas and Hildebrand, Dean},
    title = {IO500 SC21 Lists},
    month = {Nov},
    year = {2021},
    publisher = {Zenodo},
    version = {1.0},
    doi = {10.5281/zenodo.6462508},
    url = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6462508}
}

IO500 ISC21 Lists

Jay Lofstead, Georgio Markomanolis, Julian Kunkel, Andreas Dilger, Dean Hildebrand

Zenodo, 2021 · DOI 10.5281/zenodo.6462505

Cite (BibTeX)
@dataset{io500:2021:07,
    author = {Lofstead, Jay and Markomanolis, Georgio and Kunkel, Julian and Dilger, Andreas and Hildebrand, Dean},
    title = {IO500 ISC21 Lists},
    month = {Jul},
    year = {2021},
    publisher = {Zenodo},
    version = {1.0},
    doi = {10.5281/zenodo.6462505},
    url = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6462505}
}

IO500 SC20 Lists

Jay Lofstead, Georgio Markomanolis, Julian Kunkel, Andreas Dilger

Zenodo, 2020 · DOI 10.5281/zenodo.6462501

Cite (BibTeX)
@dataset{io500:2020:11,
    author = {Lofstead, Jay and Markomanolis, Georgio and Kunkel, Julian and Dilger, Andreas},
    title = {IO500 SC20 Lists},
    month = {Nov},
    year = {2020},
    publisher = {Zenodo},
    version = {1.0},
    doi = {10.5281/zenodo.6462501},
    url = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6462501}
}

IO500 ISC20 Lists

Jay Lofstead, Georgio Markomanolis, Julian Kunkel, Andreas Dilger, Dean Hildebrand

Zenodo, 2020 · DOI 10.5281/zenodo.6462499

Cite (BibTeX)
@dataset{io500:2020:07,
    author = {Lofstead, Jay and Markomanolis, Georgio and Kunkel, Julian and Dilger, Andreas and Hildebrand, Dean},
    title = {IO500 ISC20 Lists},
    month = {Jul},
    year = {2020},
    publisher = {Zenodo},
    version = {1.0},
    doi = {10.5281/zenodo.6462499},
    url = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6462499}
}

IO500 SC19 Lists

Jay Lofstead, Georgio Markomanolis, Julian Kunkel, John Bent

Zenodo, 2019 · DOI 10.5281/zenodo.6462493

Cite (BibTeX)
@dataset{io500:2019:11,
    author = {Lofstead, Jay and Markomanolis, Georgio and Kunkel, Julian and Bent, John},
    title = {IO500 SC19 Lists},
    month = {Nov},
    year = {2019},
    publisher = {Zenodo},
    version = {1.0},
    doi = {10.5281/zenodo.6462493},
    url = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6462493}
}

IO500 Ranked List ISC19

Jay Lofstead, Georgio Markomanolis, Julian Kunkel, John Bent

Zenodo, 2019 · DOI 10.5281/zenodo.6462490

Cite (BibTeX)
@dataset{io500:2019:06,
    author = {Lofstead, Jay and Markomanolis, Georgio and Kunkel, Julian and Bent, John},
    title = {ISC19 IO500 Data Sets},
    month = {Jun},
    year = {2019},
    publisher = {Zenodo},
    version = {1.0},
    doi = {10.5281/zenodo.6462490},
    url = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6462490}
}

IO500 10 node challenge (2018)

Jay Lofstead, Georgio Markomanolis, Julian Kunkel, John Bent

Zenodo, 2018 · DOI 10.5281/zenodo.6462483

Cite (BibTeX)
@dataset{io500:2018:11,
    author = {Lofstead, Jay and Markomanolis, Georgio and Kunkel, Julian and Bent, John},
    title = {IO500 10 Node Challenge},
    month = {Nov},
    year = {2018},
    publisher = {Zenodo},
    version = {1.0},
    doi = {10.5281/zenodo.6462483},
    url = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6462483}
}

Software

VI4IO/io-500-dev: Zenodo Citation Release

Julian Kunkel, George Markomanolis, John Bent, Jay Lofstead

Zenodo, 2018 · DOI 10.5281/zenodo.1422814

Cite (BibTeX)
@software{kunkel:2018:io500,
    author = {Julian Kunkel and George Markomanolis and John Bent and Jay Lofstead},
    title = {VI4IO/io-500-dev: Zenodo Citation Release},
    month = {Sep},
    year = {2018},
    publisher = {Zenodo},
    version = {v1.1},
    doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1422814},
    url = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1422814}
}