Dear IO500 Community,
We are very excited to inform you of some recent exterior changes in IO500 that should be mostly transparent to the community. We believe these changes will allow us to best continue serving you and continuing to strive towards our collective goals of improved understanding and optimization of storage performance. All of these exterior changes are due to an important internal change which was the formal creation of a non-profit organization, the IO500 Foundation, created for the purpose of ensuring the continuity of IO500.
Firstly, our web pages and mailing lists(^) will now be fully hosted at https://io500.org/ and their associated webcode will be fully available for community contributions at their open github.com repository at https://github.com/IO500/webpage.
Secondly, our slack channels will now be hosted by the IO500 organization in a dedicated workspace (https://io500workspace.slack.com/). Please use this link(+) to join our new slack channels.
Finally, our github repositories for the aforementioned webpages as well as the benchmark itself will be hosted by the IO500 organization at https://github.com/io500/.
The old web hosting, the old repositories, and the old slack channels(*) will remain temporarily available as we transition to our new homes. Please update any existing links and workflows accordingly as we will eventually archive and potentially remove these old locations.
Finally, the IO500 Foundation would like to thank the Virtual Institute for I/O (VI4IO) for the many years in which it has provided these services. Further, we encourage our IO500 community to continue availing itself of the other excellent resources at VI4IO such as the Comprehensive Data Center List which we hope will continue serving a complementary purpose to IO500.
Happy Benchmarking!
The IO500 Committee
* The VI4IO workspace will remain available for VI4IO related channels but the IO500 related channels will have a new home in the new workspace.
+ https://join.slack.com/t/io500workspace/shared_invite/zt-hv1i5svr-Yj8HR_wRzEy1bK2s2JX20w