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10 Node Research ISC20 List

This is the official list released at ISC-HPC 20 for the 10 Node Challenge. The list shows the best result for a given combination of system/institution/filesystem qualifying for the 10 Node Challenge.

# BoF Information IO500 Repro.
Institution System · FS Type Storage Vendor Client Nodes Total Client Proc. Score BW MD
(GiB/s) (kIOP/s)
1 ISC20 Intel Wolf DAOS Intel 10 420 758.71 164.77 3,493.56 -
2 ISC20 TACC Frontera DAOS Intel 10 420 508.88 79.16 3,271.49 -
3 ISC20 Argonne National Laboratory Presque DAOS Argonne National Laboratory 10 380 440.64 95.80 2,026.80 -
4 SC19 NVIDIA DGX-2H SuperPOD Lustre DDN 10 400 249.50 86.97 715.76 -
5 SC19 WekaIO WekaIO WekaIO Matrix WekaIO 10 2,610 156.51 56.22 435.76 -
6 ISC20 EPCC NextGENIO GekkoFS NextGenIO (BSC & JGU) 10 280 152.30 24.83 934.12 -
7 ISC20 National Supercomputer Center in Guangzhou Venus2 kapok National Supercomputer Center in Guangzhou 10 260 148.08 30.62 716.11 -
8 SC19 EPCC NextGENIO GekkoFS NextGenIO (BSC & JGU) 10 240 125.08 21.47 728.68 -
9 ISC20 DDN DIME IME DDN 10 110 116.95 100.37 136.27 -
10 ISC20 CSIRO bracewell Lustre Dell/DDN 10 400 99.64 39.90 248.81 -
11 ISC20 Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz MOGON II GekkoFS JGU (ADA-FS)& BSC (NEXTGenIO) 10 160 96.46 11.61 801.60 -
12 SC19 State Key Laboratory of High-end Server & Storage Technology (HSS) TStor3000 BeeGFS INSPUR 10 300 82.57 41.14 165.71 -
13 SC19 iFLYTEK iFLYTEK YRCloudFile Yanrong 10 200 78.54 13.55 455.18 -
14 ISC20 DDN AI400X Lustre DDN 10 160 69.92 21.01 232.70 -
15 SC19 CSIRO bracewell beegfs Dell/ThinkParQ 10 160 66.80 33.77 132.15 -
16 SC19 DDN AI400 Lustre DDN 10 240 63.88 19.65 207.63 -
17 SC19 University of Cambridge Data Accelerator Lustre Dell EMC 10 320 60.25 21.73 167.09 -
18 ISC20 Red Hat EC2-10xi3en.metal CephFS Red Hat 10 320 57.17 26.29 124.30 -
19 SC19 National Supercomputing Center in Changsha Tianhe-2E Lustre National University of Defense Technology 10 160 52.58 35.06 78.86 -
20 SC19 National Supercomputing Centre, Singapore Aspire 1 IME DDN 10 160 43.04 101.75 18.21 -
21 SC19 Penguin Computing Benchmarking and Innovation Lab Penguin-ASG-NVBeeOne BeeGFS Penguin Computing/Excelero 10 320 39.65 17.71 88.76 -
22 SC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI SharedScratch Parallel Filesystem WekaIO 10 1,440 36.55 18.58 71.90 -
23 ISC20 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure BeeGFS on Oracle Cloud BeeGFS Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 10 160 32.79 14.02 76.67 -
24 ISC20 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI SharedScratch Parallel Filesystem WekaIO 10 600 31.39 12.34 79.83 -
25 SC19 Clemson University Palmetto Burstbuffer BeeGFS AdvancedHPC 10 120 21.55 12.97 35.80 -
26 SC19 Stanford Sherlock/Fir Lustre Dell, QCT, HGST 10 240 18.25 5.23 63.74 -
27 ISC20 SUSE HammerHead CephFS SUSE/Ampere/Arm 10 220 15.61 7.34 33.22 -
28 SC19 University of Birmingham BEAR-AI Spectrum Scale DDN 10 80 15.39 2.74 86.48 -
29 SC19 Nanyang Technological University Hadley GPFS DDN 10 640 12.89 7.47 22.24 -
30 SC19 SUSE TigerShark SUSE Enterprise Storage - CephFS SUSE, Intel, Lenovo 10 80 12.43 4.64 33.34 -
31 ISC20 National Center for Supercomputing Applications HAL Spectrum Scale DDN 10 100 11.31 3.62 35.37 -
32 SC19 Stanford Sherlock/Oak Lustre Dell, QCT, HGST 10 240 9.31 1.89 45.87 -
33 SC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI Vast Scale-out NAS Vast Data 10 820 8.01 6.31 10.17 -
34 SC19 Stanford Sherlock/Regal Lustre Dell 10 160 7.05 1.64 30.28 -
35 SC19 IST Austria IST Austria HPC BeeGFS Homemade@IST 10 100 6.63 1.39 31.62 -
36 SC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI dm11 Scale-out NAS #N/A 10 760 6.42 2.61 15.82 -
37 SC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI nrs Scale-out NAS Qumulo 10 760 4.19 2.88 6.11 -
38 SC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI nearline4 Scale-out NAS Qumulo 10 760 3.67 2.45 5.49 -
39 ISC20 LNCC SDumont Lustre Cay/HPE 10 240 3.06 2.32 4.02 -

Top 10 systems compared

Each axis is scaled to the highest value among these systems — 100% marks the leader on that dimension. Click a system below to toggle it.

Score 100% Bandwidth 100% Metadata 100% Clients 100% Processes 100% #1 — Wolf (Intel) #2 — Frontera (TACC) #3 — Presque (Argonne National Laboratory) #4 — DGX-2H SuperPOD (NVIDIA) #5 — WekaIO (WekaIO) #6 — NextGENIO (EPCC) #7 — Venus2 (National Supercomputer Center in Guangzhou) #8 — NextGENIO (EPCC) #9 — DIME (DDN) #10 — bracewell (CSIRO)
  • #1 Wolf Intel
  • #2 Frontera TACC
  • #3 Presque Argonne National Laboratory
  • #4 DGX-2H SuperPOD NVIDIA
  • #5 WekaIO WekaIO
  • #6 NextGENIO EPCC
  • #7 Venus2 National Supercomputer Center in Guangzhou
  • #8 NextGENIO EPCC
  • #9 DIME DDN
  • #10 bracewell CSIRO