Sanctioned Chinese supercomputer maker stripped of IO500 benchmark crown, Intel-powered Aurora retakes the lead — record-breaking ParaStor F9000 storage system doesn't meet reproducibility requirements
Sugon's record-breaking ParaStor F9000 storage systems have lost their IO500 Production crowns and have been moved to the Research list after failing to meet the benchmark's highest reproducibility requirements, which include widely available architecture details and general availability of hardware itself.
The IO500 Committee has removed Chinese storage maker Sugon's ParaStor F9000 all-flash systems from its Production IO500 list due to lack of reproducibility requirements, such as sufficient architectural details and general availability. The systems powered by ParaStor F9000 storage were moved to the Research IO500 list and remain among the world's highest-performing storage devices.
Intel's Aurora reclaimed the top spot on the Production list after the review. The Sugon ISC26 submission was transferred from the Production List to the Research List due to insufficient architectural details and limited general availability of the file system. The DAOS system from Argonne's DAOS now holds its previous #1 position on the Production and Production 10-Client lists.
The IO500 Committee requires its Production-list submissions to meet its highest reproducibility standard, which is hard to achieve for proprietary systems like Sugon's ParaStor.
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