From updated storage system performance ratings IO500 The Chinese ParaStor F9000 complex developed by Sugon is not included. As of September 2026, the IO500 committee has not received reliable information about its implementation – it is likely that the repository does not exist in commercial form at all.
Previous reports pointed out that the ParaStor F9000 storage system is based on 2U nodes and has 24 NVMe NVMe disk slots. The platform comes with two controllers (Active-Active), each using an unnamed 64-core processor and four network adapters 400G scale structure Unlimited bandwidth. Claimed performance reaches 5 million IOPS and 190 GB/s per node.
At ISC 2026, Sugon launched several different rack configurations based on ParaStor F9000 – 42U, 36U and 26U. At the same time, the storage system ranked first in the IO500 Production (production system) and IO500 Production 10 Node (10-node configuration) ratings, scoring 79,110.05 points and 7839.3 points respectively.
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However, the ParaStor F9000 is missing from the updated listing. Supercomputer storage system (DAOS) is back in the first place. aurorapart of the Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) of the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE). In the IO500 Production rating, the result is 32,165.9 points, and in the Production 10 Node, the result is 2885.57 points.
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