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10 Node Production SC25 List

Ranking of production system submissions that used exactly ten client nodes. This is a subset of the Full List of submissions, showing only one highest-scoring result per storage system. Submitters who want a submission that is currently on the Research List to be on the Production List should contact the IO500 Steering Committee.
# BoF Information IO500 Repro.
Institution System · FS Type Storage Vendor Client Nodes Total Client Proc. Score BW MD
(GiB/s) (kIOP/s)
1 SC23 Argonne National Laboratory Aurora DAOS Intel 10 2,080 2,885.57 734.50 11,336.27
2 SC25 LRZ SuperMUC-NG-Phase2-EC-10 DAOS Lenovo 10 1,120 1,253.56 253.98 6,187.21
3 SC25 Core42 Maximus-01 DAOS Enakta Labs 10 960 666.70 247.90 1,793.03
4 SC25 JD Explore Academy JoyBuilder AI Development Service Platform JPFS JDCloud 10 960 405.50 117.37 1,400.93
5 ISC25 Hudson River Trading HRT EXAScaler DDN 10 1,600 348.08 136.05 890.51
6 ISC24 Zuse Institute Berlin Lise DAOS Megware 10 960 324.54 65.01 1,620.13
7 SC24 Danish Centre for AI innovation AS GEFION EXAScaler DDN 10 1,280 314.03 154.70 637.43
8 SC25 SoftBank Corp CHIE-4 EXAScaler DDN 10 1,120 303.20 148.88 617.51
9 SC24 SoftBank Corp CHIE-2 EXAScaler DDN 10 1,120 299.32 159.93 560.19
10 SC25 University of Florida HiPerGator EXAScaler DDN 10 1,920 273.84 79.39 944.56
11 SC24 University of Florida HiPerGator AI EXAScaler DDN 10 640 243.61 124.89 475.20
12 ISC25 Joint Center for Advanced High Performance Computing Miyabi-G Lustre DDN 10 640 188.26 77.38 458.06
13 ISC25 SAKURA Internet Inc and Prunus Solutions Inc SAKURAONE EXAScaler DDN 10 1,280 181.91 133.03 248.74
14 ISC24 NHN Cloud Corporation NHN CLOUD GWANGJU AI EXAScaler DDN 10 640 176.57 62.58 498.22
15 SC25 Simon Fraser University FIR EXAScaler DDN 10 1,920 125.01 76.64 203.92
16 ISC24 University of Virginia Afton WEKA Dell 10 850 105.94 33.28 337.29
17 SC23 Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology Earth Simulator 4 EXAScaler DDN 10 320 101.88 48.19 215.38
18 SC25 Samsung Electronics Samsung AE-25 Cluster pNFS v5.2.3-90 via Hammerspace Anvil Metadata Service Hammerspace 10 480 85.23 74.66 97.29
19 SC24 Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center Proxima Lustre xFiusion 10 300 77.76 17.94 337.05
20 SC25 Purdue University Gautschi EXAScaler DDN 10 1,920 70.18 19.59 251.47
21 SC23 Center for Research Informatics at University of Chicago Randi Spectrum Scale IBM 10 160 60.88 31.05 119.36
22 ISC24 Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center Altair Lustre Huawei/xFiusion 10 200 54.03 11.39 256.36
23 SC25 TU Dresden ZIH Alpha Centauri Quobyte Data Center File System Quobyte 10 170 42.84 33.81 54.27
24 ISC25 Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare Tier1-CNAF Spectrum Scale Huawei 10 100 37.26 11.30 122.93
25 SC24 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia Research Campus Janelia Compute cluster Vast Vast Data 10 640 31.08 11.61 83.22
26 SC24 Wroclaw Centre for Networking and Supercomputing Lem Lustre Huawei/xFusion 10 200 28.02 10.76 72.99
27 SC23 Mississippi State University High Performance Computing Collaboratory Orion Lustre DDN 10 400 20.83 5.01 86.67
28 SC23 Mississippi State University High Performance Computing Collaboratory Orion Lustre DDN 10 400 17.57 6.43 48.03
29 ISC25 UCloud UCloud Compute cluster UPFS UCloud 10 320 15.57 12.33 19.65
30 SC25 Research Computing at Rochester Institute of Technology sporc CephFS Internal 10 320 10.08 7.85 12.94
31 ISC25 Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare Tier1-CNAF CephFS DELL 10 160 8.13 8.28 7.98
32 SC24 RTX Pratt Whitney Wilson PanFS VDURA 10 160 6.70 2.17 20.70
33 SC23 Eikon Therapeutics spt-compute1 Qumulo Core Qumulo 10 20 5.35 2.24 12.77 -

Top 10 systems compared

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Score 100% Bandwidth 100% Metadata 100% Clients 100% Processes 100% #1 — Aurora (Argonne National Laboratory) #2 — SuperMUC-NG-Phase2-EC-10 (LRZ) #3 — Maximus-01 (Core42) #4 — JoyBuilder AI Development Service Platform (JD Explore Academy) #5 — HRT (Hudson River Trading) #6 — Lise (Zuse Institute Berlin) #7 — GEFION (Danish Centre for AI innovation AS) #8 — CHIE-4 (SoftBank Corp) #9 — CHIE-2 (SoftBank Corp) #10 — HiPerGator (University of Florida)
  • #1 Aurora Argonne National Laboratory
  • #2 SuperMUC-NG-Phase2-EC-10 LRZ
  • #3 Maximus-01 Core42
  • #4 JoyBuilder AI Development Service Platform JD Explore Academy
  • #5 HRT Hudson River Trading
  • #6 Lise Zuse Institute Berlin
  • #7 GEFION Danish Centre for AI innovation AS
  • #8 CHIE-4 SoftBank Corp
  • #9 CHIE-2 SoftBank Corp
  • #10 HiPerGator University of Florida