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10 Node Research SC21 List

This is the SC21 IO500 10-nodes list
# BoF Information IO500 Repro.
Institution System · FS Type Storage Vendor Client Nodes Total Client Proc. Score BW MD
(GiB/s) (kIOP/s)
1 ISC21 Pengcheng Laboratory Pengcheng Cloudbrain-II on Atlas 900 MadFS Pengcheng 10 1,800 2,595.89 193.77 34,777.27 -
2 SC21 Huawei HPDA Lab Athena OceanFS Huawei 10 1,720 2,395.03 314.56 18,235.71 -
3 SC21 Olympus Lab OceanStor Pacific OceanFS Huawei 10 1,720 2,298.69 317.07 16,664.88 -
4 ISC21 Intel Endeavour DAOS Intel 10 1,440 1,859.56 398.77 8,671.65 -
5 SC21 BPFS Lab Kongming BPFS 10 800 972.60 96.26 9,827.09 -
6 ISC20 Intel Wolf DAOS Intel 10 420 758.71 164.77 3,493.56 -
7 ISC21 Lenovo Lenovo-Lenox DAOS Lenovo 10 960 612.87 105.28 3,567.85 -
8 SC21 National Research Center of Tranlational Medicine at Shanghai Ruijin Hospital ASTRA DAOS NRCTM 10 360 511.02 87.50 2,984.61 -
9 ISC20 TACC Frontera DAOS Intel 10 420 508.88 79.16 3,271.49 -
10 ISC21 National Supercomputer Center in GuangZhou Venus2 kapok National Supercomputer Center in GuangZhou 10 480 474.10 91.64 2,452.87 -
11 ISC20 Argonne National Laboratory Presque DAOS Argonne National Laboratory 10 380 440.64 95.80 2,026.80 -
12 SC21 QCT DevCloud QCT DevCloud DAOS QCT 10 560 427.27 102.85 1,774.97 -
13 ISC21 Supermicro DAOS Supermicro 10 1,120 415.04 112.17 1,535.63 -
14 SC19 NVIDIA DGX-2H SuperPOD Lustre DDN 10 400 249.50 86.97 715.76 -
15 SC20 EPCC NextGENIO GekkoFS BSC & JGU 10 3,800 239.37 45.79 1,251.32 -
16 ISC21 Olympus Storage Technology Innovation Lab OceanStor OceanFS Huawei 10 960 220.10 69.49 697.15 -
17 SC20 Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz MOGON II GekkoFS JGU (ADA-FS)& BSC (NEXTGenIO) 10 240 167.64 22.97 1,223.59 -
18 SC20 DDN DIME IME DDN 10 110 161.53 101.60 256.78 -
19 SC19 WekaIO WekaIO WekaIO Matrix WekaIO 10 2,610 156.51 56.22 435.76 -
20 ISC21 University of Tsukuba Cygnus CHFS OSS 10 240 148.69 30.39 727.61 -
21 ISC21 Joint Institute of Nuclear Research Govorun DAOS RSC 10 160 132.07 20.19 863.69 -
22 SC20 TACC Frontera IME DDN 10 280 109.91 176.23 68.55 -
23 ISC21 Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology Earth Simulator Lustre DDN 10 320 101.88 48.19 215.38 -
24 ISC20 CSIRO bracewell Lustre Dell/DDN 10 400 99.64 39.90 248.81 -
25 SC19 State Key Laboratory of High-end Server & Storage Technology (HSS) TStor3000 BeeGFS INSPUR 10 300 82.57 41.14 165.71 -
26 SC19 iFLYTEK iFLYTEK YRCloudFile Yanrong 10 200 78.54 13.55 455.18 -
27 ISC20 DDN AI400X Lustre DDN 10 160 69.92 21.01 232.70 -
28 SC21 IBM Tucson Arches 2021B SpectrumScale IBM 10 200 68.83 33.02 143.46 -
29 SC19 CSIRO bracewell beegfs Dell/ThinkParQ 10 160 66.80 33.77 132.15 -
30 SC19 DDN AI400 Lustre DDN 10 240 63.88 19.65 207.63 -
31 SC21 Raytheon MCK-HPC WekaFS Penguin Computing 10 360 62.55 25.96 150.70 -
32 SC19 University of Cambridge Data Accelerator Lustre Dell EMC 10 320 60.25 21.73 167.09 -
33 SC20 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI SharedScratch Parallel Filesystem WekaIO 10 320 57.99 20.80 161.71 -
34 ISC20 Red Hat EC2-10xi3en.metal CephFS Red Hat 10 320 57.17 26.29 124.30 -
35 SC19 National Supercomputing Center in Changsha Tianhe-2E Lustre National University of Defense Technology 10 160 52.58 35.06 78.86 -
36 SC21 NLHPC Guacolda SpectrumScale IBM 10 360 45.26 17.91 114.36 -
37 SC19 National Supercomputing Centre, Singapore Aspire 1 IME DDN 10 160 43.04 101.75 18.21 -
38 SC19 Penguin Computing Benchmarking and Innovation Lab Penguin-ASG-NVBeeOne BeeGFS Penguin Computing/Excelero 10 320 39.65 17.71 88.76 -
39 ISC20 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure BeeGFS on Oracle Cloud BeeGFS Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 10 160 32.79 14.02 76.67 -
40 SC20 Raytheon WekaIO wekafs Penguin Computing 10 440 32.20 14.83 69.88 -
41 SC20 Forschungszentrum Juelich (FZJ) JUWELS IME HPEDDN 10 400 29.81 178.11 4.99 -
42 SC19 Clemson University Palmetto Burstbuffer BeeGFS AdvancedHPC 10 120 21.55 12.97 35.80 -
43 SC19 Stanford Sherlock/Fir Lustre Dell, QCT, HGST 10 240 18.25 5.23 63.74 -
44 ISC21 Georgia Institute of Technology PACE-Phoenix Lustre DDN 10 240 17.07 4.52 64.48 -
45 SC20 University of Tsukuba Cygnus Gfarm OSS 10 20 16.12 8.10 32.09 -
46 ISC20 SUSE HammerHead CephFS SUSE/Ampere/Arm 10 220 15.61 7.34 33.22 -
47 ISC21 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia Research Campus nrsv Vast 10 300 15.50 7.54 31.84 -
48 SC19 University of Birmingham BEAR-AI Spectrum Scale DDN 10 80 15.39 2.74 86.48 -
49 SC19 Nanyang Technological University Hadley GPFS DDN 10 640 12.89 7.47 22.24 -
50 SC21 GWDG SCC BeeGFS 10 80 12.55 2.63 59.85 -
51 SC19 SUSE TigerShark SUSE Enterprise Storage - CephFS SUSE, Intel, Lenovo 10 80 12.43 4.64 33.34 -
52 SC20 The Science and Technology Facilities Council JASMIN 4 Quobyte Quobyte Inc. 10 240 11.34 12.34 10.43 -
53 ISC20 National Center for Supercomputing Applications HAL Spectrum Scale DDN 10 100 11.31 3.62 35.37 -
54 SC20 EPCC Archer 2 (test system) Lustre Cray 10 80 10.68 2.63 43.43 -
55 SC20 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI Vast Scale-out NAS Vast Data 10 260 10.64 7.44 15.22 -
56 SC19 Stanford Sherlock/Oak Lustre Dell, QCT, HGST 10 240 9.31 1.89 45.87 -
57 SC19 Stanford Sherlock/Regal Lustre Dell 10 160 7.05 1.64 30.28 -
58 SC19 IST Austria IST Austria HPC BeeGFS Homemade@IST 10 100 6.63 1.39 31.62 -
59 SC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI dm11 Scale-out NAS #N/A 10 760 6.42 2.61 15.82 -
60 ISC21 DKRZ Mistral Lustre Seagate/Cray 10 80 5.22 1.16 23.50 -
61 ISC21 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia Research Campus Janelia Qumulo Qumulo 10 400 4.97 2.34 10.54 -
62 SC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI nrs Scale-out NAS Qumulo 10 760 4.19 2.88 6.11 -
63 SC19 Janelia Research Campus, HHMI nearline4 Scale-out NAS Qumulo 10 760 3.67 2.45 5.49 -
64 SC21 IBMDL Sandbox SpectrumScale IBM 10 0 3.17 0.61 16.57 -
65 ISC20 LNCC SDumont Lustre Cay/HPE 10 240 3.06 2.32 4.02 -

Top 10 systems compared

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Score 100% Bandwidth 100% Metadata 100% Clients 100% Processes 100% #1 — Pengcheng Cloudbrain-II on Atlas 900 (Pengcheng Laboratory) #2 — Athena (Huawei HPDA Lab) #3 — OceanStor Pacific (Olympus Lab) #4 — Endeavour (Intel) #5 — Kongming (BPFS Lab) #6 — Wolf (Intel) #7 — Lenovo-Lenox (Lenovo) #8 — ASTRA (National Research Center of Tranlational Medicine at Shanghai Ruijin Hospital) #9 — Frontera (TACC) #10 — Venus2 (National Supercomputer Center in GuangZhou)
  • #1 Pengcheng Cloudbrain-II on Atlas 900 Pengcheng Laboratory
  • #2 Athena Huawei HPDA Lab
  • #3 OceanStor Pacific Olympus Lab
  • #4 Endeavour Intel
  • #5 Kongming BPFS Lab
  • #6 Wolf Intel
  • #7 Lenovo-Lenox Lenovo
  • #8 ASTRA National Research Center of Tranlational Medicine at Shanghai Ruijin Hospital
  • #9 Frontera TACC
  • #10 Venus2 National Supercomputer Center in GuangZhou