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SCC SC19 List

This is the result of the Student Cluster Competition at Supercomputing 2019. These results are obtained with slightly relaxed rules, i.e., they are not directly comparable to results reported in the other IO500 lists.

# BoF Information IO500 Repro.
Institution System · FS Type Storage Vendor Client Nodes Total Client Proc. Score BW MD
(GiB/s) (kIOP/s)
1 SC19 Tsinghua Tsinghua ext4 Intel 1 36 30.56 3.08 303.12 -
2 SC19 Nanyang 1 48 28.28 4.14 193.21 -
3 SC19 Purdue Hammertime 5 80 26.08 9.80 69.40 -
4 SC19 Shanghai Tech University COO local file system Intel 1 36 20.42 2.62 159.38 -
5 SC19 ETH Zurich Intel 1 56 19.59 3.24 118.57 -
6 SC19 Peking Peking ext4 1 16 16.21 2.55 103.25 -
7 SC19 FAU ext4 1 2 13.82 2.02 94.41 -
8 SC19 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign GPFS 1 32 12.70 6.51 24.78 -
9 SC19 NTHU NTHU-SCC 1 40 9.40 1.05 84.16 -
10 SC19 Tennessee Cosmo /dev/md0 Cray 1 4 8.97 1.85 43.39 -
11 SC19 Wake Forest University Daemon Deacons 1 1 5.44 0.98 30.21 -
12 SC19 University of Warsaw Moniuszko Distributed File System Intel Corporation 2 80 4.95 1.33 18.38 -
13 SC19 University of Washington DAWGZ cluster ext Samsung 1 32 4.39 0.25 77.92 -
14 SC19 Shanghai Jiao Tong Shanghai Jiao Tong Inspur 1 2 3.28 1.19 9.05 -

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 — Tsinghua (Tsinghua) #2 — (Nanyang) #3 — Hammertime (Purdue) #4 — COO (Shanghai Tech University) #5 — (ETH Zurich) #6 — Peking (Peking) #7 — (FAU) #8 — (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) #9 — NTHU-SCC (NTHU) #10 — Cosmo (Tennessee)
  • #1 Tsinghua Tsinghua
  • #2 Nanyang
  • #3 Hammertime Purdue
  • #4 COO Shanghai Tech University
  • #5 ETH Zurich
  • #6 Peking Peking
  • #7 FAU
  • #8 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • #9 NTHU-SCC NTHU
  • #10 Cosmo Tennessee