IO500 10-Node Production Results - Driving AI Success
DDN, June 30,2025
Few metrics capture real-world AI storage performance as clearly as the IO500 benchmark. In the latest IO500 10-Node Production rankings (ISC 2025), the results read like a roll-call of DDN's success.
DDN-powered systems account for 7 of the top 10 positions, and 10 of the top 24, on this prestigious list. No other storage vendor comes close. This dominance is not a statistical quirk - it reflects DDN's balanced engineering that excels in both raw throughput and metadata handling.
In practical terms, DDN EXAScaler demonstrates it can move terabytes of data per second while simultaneously sustaining millions of small-file I/O operations, exactly the mix demanded by today's converged HPC and AI environments.