Parallel I/O Benchmarks

Since I get frequently asked if I know of any parallel I/O benchmarks that are available, I have put together a list of the ones I am aware of (in no particular order). If you know of any benchmarks/applications that can be added to this list, let me know.

Updated: October 8, 2008

Benchmarks

FLASH I/O
http://www.ucolick.org/~zingale/flash_benchmark_io/
An updated version for newer versions of parallel NetCDF and HDF-5 is available here .
IOR
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ior-sio
Effective I/O Bandwidth Benchmark (b_eff_io)
http://www.hlrs.de/organization/par/services/models/mpi/b_eff_io/
NPBIO2.4-MPI (formerly known as BTIO)
http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Resources/Software/npb.html
MPI Tile I/O
http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/pio-benchmark/
LANL MPI-IO Test
http://public.lanl.gov/jnunez/benchmarks/mpiiotest.htm
HPIO and S3asim
http://cholera.ece.northwestern.edu/~aching/research_webpage/io.html
Noncontig
http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/pio-benchmark/
MADbench2
http://crd.lbl.gov/~borrill/MADbench2/
PIO-Bench
ftp://ftp.parl.clemson.edu/pub/pio-bench
An article describing it is at http://www.clustermonkey.net/content/view/87/32/.
SSCA #3 Benchmark
http://www.highproductivity.org/SSCABmks.htm
DARPA SPIO benchmark
I don't know where the source is available.
Parkbench I/O Benchmarks
http://www.performance.ecs.soton.ac.uk/projects.html

Applications

Cactus
http://www.cactuscode.org/
mpiBLAST
http://mpiblast.lanl.gov/
FLASH
http://www.flash.uchicago.edu/
Also see FLASH I/O Benchmark above.
Community Climate System Model (CCSM)
http://www.ccsm.ucar.edu/
MPQC
http://www.mpqc.org/
NaSt3DGP
http://wissrech.ins.uni-bonn.de/research/projects/NaSt3DGP/index.htm
SIESTA
http://www.uam.es/siesta/
CP2K
http://cp2k.berlios.de/