Just
my 0.02$ here, but I think the usefulness of the IO-500 would be to get the details of the how the storage system is tuned and what tuning options were used when running the job. Reporting of say all the Lustre/GPFS tuning parameters for a given storage system
would be nice to know. For example, an IOR test done using the exact same compute system and storage system would give different results if it was GPFS was configured with a 256 KiB block size as opposed to a 8 MiB block size.
I
think people submitting "optimized" results with the result setup documented and all of the storage/FS configuration documented is more useful than trying to converge on a set of run rules.