We are at a critical junction for IO500.  Hopefully most of you joined this list because you agree with the motivation behind IO500 and only a few of you joined to laugh at its painful demise.

To the former, the committee wants to remind you all that we will unveil the second list at ISC18.  As of now, we do have a few submissions but we fear they may be too few to be sufficiently impressive to ensure our continued relevance.  We are clearly still too new to have achieved critical mass.

We remain committed to the community's need for an IO500.  Reporting only hero numbers as was the pre-IO500 status quo hurts us all.  Collecting a large historical data set of IO performance benefits us all.

Please help ensure the success of our effort by submitting results yourselves and by encouraging and soliciting others to do so.  The community stands ready to provide assistance as is necessary although please remember that the benchmark is very easy to run.

Thanks!

John (on behalf of the committee)