In the StorCloud Challenge, applications that demand fast transfer rates and/or use multiple file systems in interesting or comparative ways compete for prizes and bragging rights.

The StorCloud Team congratulates the following winners of this year's StorCloud Challenge.

Best Random Access Use of StorCloud
The winner is Blockbuster, Lawrence Livermore National Labs

This category represents a class of applications that access the storage subsystem in a random fashion as opposed to purely sequential access pattern. Random access patterns generally stress a storage subsystem far more severely than sequential access patterns.

Best Use of StorCloud to Advance a Scientific Application
The winner is MPQC, Sandia National Labs

This category represents an application that gained significant benefit and/or growth from the use of the StorCloud storage system.

Most Innovative Use of StorCloud
The winner is PNNL Active Storage

This category is given to the group that demonstrates a novel use of the StorCloud storage system that goes well beyond simply transferring data between the application and the storage devices in StorCloud.

Highest Achieved StorCloud Bandwidth and I/Os per second
The winner is ENZO, San Diego Supercomputing Center

This award represents the highest bandwidth and I/O operations per second achieved between the application and the StorCloud storage subsystem used during the run.