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: December 4, 2009

Benchmarks

  1. 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.

  2. IOR
    http://sourceforge.net/projects/ior-sio

  3. Effective I/O Bandwidth Benchmark (b_eff_io)
    http://www.hlrs.de/mpi/b_eff_io/

  4. NAS BTIO Benchmark
    http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Resources/Software/npb.html (see BT in NPB3.3-MPI)

  5. MPI Tile I/O
    http://www.mcs.anl.gov/pio-benchmark/

  6. LANL MPI-IO Test
    http://public.lanl.gov/jnunez/benchmarks/mpiiotest.htm

  7. HPIO and S3asim
    http://www.eecs.northwestern.edu/~aching/research_webpage/io.html

  8. Noncontig
    http://www.mcs.anl.gov/pio-benchmark/

  9. MADbench2
    http://crd.lbl.gov/~borrill/MADbench2/

  10. Chombo I/O Benchmark
    http://www.nersc.gov/~ndk/ChomboBenchmarks/chomboIOBenchmark.html

  11. QIO
    http://usqcd.jlab.org/usqcd-docs/qio/

  12. PIO-Bench
    ftp://ftp.parl.clemson.edu/pub/pio-bench
    An article describing it is at     http://www.clustermonkey.net/content/view/87/32/.

  13. SSCA #3 Benchmark
    http://www.highproductivity.org/SSCABmks.htm

  14. Parkbench I/O Benchmarks
    http://www.performance.ecs.soton.ac.uk/projects.html

Applications

  1. Cactus
    http://www.cactuscode.org/

  2. mpiBLAST
    http://www.mpiblast.org/

  3. FLASH
    http://www.flash.uchicago.edu/
    Also see FLASH I/O Benchmark above.

  4. Community Climate System Model (CCSM)
    http://www.ccsm.ucar.edu/

  5. Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS)
    https://www.myroms.org/

  6. Global Cloud Resolving Model (GCRM)
    https://svn.pnl.gov/gcrm

  7. Qbox
    http://eslab.ucdavis.edu/software/qbox/

  8. MILC
    http://www.physics.utah.edu/~detar/milc/

  9. MPQC
    http://www.mpqc.org/

  10. NaSt3DGP
    http://wissrech.ins.uni-bonn.de/research/projects/NaSt3DGP/index.htm

  11. SIESTA
    http://www.uam.es/siesta/

  12. CP2K
    http://cp2k.berlios.de/

Traces

  1. PLFS
    http://institutes.lanl.gov/plfs/maps/

  2. MAMBO
    http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/hpsl/mambo/index.html