Sanctioned Chinese supercomputer maker stripped of IO500 benchmark crown, Intel-powered Aurora retakes the lead — record-breaking ParaStor F9000 storage system doesn't meet reproducibility requirements

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Sugon's record-breaking ParaStor F9000 storage systems have lost their IO500 Production crowns and have been moved to the Research list after failing to meet the benchmark's highest reproducibility requirements, which include widely available architecture details and general availability of hardware itself.