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Lockheed Martin chooses Appro 1U- Tetra
Supercomputers for Five US (DoD) Department of Defense
Locations to support the High Performance Computing
Modernization Program (HPCMP) to improve supercomputing
capabilities. As a subcontractor of Lockheed Martin,
Appro will provide system integration, project management
and HPC expertise for the installation and operation
of the supercomputers.
Customer Quote:
“Lockheed Martin is looking forward to the Appro
1U-Tetra supercomputer installation as part of the
DoD High Performance Computing Modernization Program”;
said Jeff Gosciniak, Lockheed Martin Program Manager
for the Next Generation Technical Services contract
supporting HPCMO. “Appro is partnering with
us to improve the reliability, fault tolerance and
redundancy of the solution, as well as working with
us to improve flexibility for system scaling in the
future.” |
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LLNL Selected Appro HyperPower™,
based on the Appro CPU/GPU GreenBlade System to provide
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) Computing
Center with a new visualization cluster called “Edge”
geared to support data analysis and visualization
projects.
Customer Quote:
“LLNL scientists required
a platform with the latest GPU technology in order
to take advantage of the performance increases available
to visualization tools and other application codes.
Visualization specialists are
dealing with multi-terabyte data sets with tens of
billions of zones, thousands of files per time step,
and hundreds of time steps,” said Becky Springmeyer,
Computational Systems and Software Environment Lead
of the Advanced Simulation and Computing program at
LLNL. “Post-processing tasks are heavily I/O
bound, so specialized visualization servers that optimize
I/O rather than CPU speed are better suited for this
work, which will be now enabled through the “Edge”
cluster.” |
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Appro Deployed a World Class Data
Intensive Linux Cluster Testbed Solution with accelerated
I/O nodes to Lawerence Livermore Laboratory in Support
of the Hyperion Project.
Customer Quote:
"The Hyperion project enables the development
of current and future scientific computing requirements.
This project will allow us to apply computational
resources to the broader set of Department of Energy
and National Nuclear Security Administration missions
we support, from national and homeland security to
climate change and finding new energy sources,”
Mark Seager, Head of Advanced Computing Technology,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. “When
deployed the LLNL cluster solution will be one of
the world’s fastest I/O clusters dedicated to
testing and scaling of critical Linux cluster technologies.
The performance of this solution for bandwidth and
IOPS comes at a fraction of the cost of alternative
technologies.” |
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Gordon Project
Linux Magazine Interview
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SDSC - San Diego Supercomputer
Center
Provides cyberinfrastructure resources to scientists
who require massive compute and data-handling capabilities
to conduct their research. More
about SDSC
Appro's received a major award to deliver the next-generation
Xtreme-X Supercomputer, named "Gordon" by
SDSC featuring 245TF of total compute power, 64TB
of DRAM, 256 TB of flash memory, and four petabytes
of disk storage. A key feature of Gordon will be the
availability of the supernode. Each of the systems
supernodes (a group of 32 nodes) has the potential
of 7.7 TF of compute power and 10 TB of memory.
Customer Quote
“The next generation Appro Xtreme-X™
Supercomputer, named “Gordon” by the San
Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San Diego
will provide benefits to many potential scientific
applications to include both academic and industrial
researchers in need of fast, interactive methods to
manipulate large volumes of structured data. Gordon
will become a key part of a network of next-generation
high-performance computers (HPC) being made available
to the research community through an open-access national
grid.
SDSC
Director Michael Norman
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DASH
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Trestles
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SC09
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SDSC - San Diego Supercomputer
Center
More
about SDSC
Appro, SDSC applied SSD Technology to Dramatically
Increase the speed of Supercomputers. Appro delivered
a 5.7TF cluster with SSD’s and 768GB of global
shared memory space per node. DASH - was a winner
of the SC09 Storage Challenge and is available on
the Terragrid network today.
Customer Quote:
In 2010, Appro has also delivered "Trestles",
cluster based on the Appro GreenBlade System. The
system includes 10,368 processor cores, a peak speed
of 100 teraflop/s, and 38 terabytes of flash memory.
Like Dash, Trestles will be available to users of
the TeraGrid, the nation’s largest open-access
scientific discovery infrastructure.
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Renault F1 Team
The Renault F1 Team was born in 2002 with a singular
purpose: winning the FIA Formula One World Championship
with a 100% Renault car. The team steadily grew in
competitiveness since 2002 thanks to a blend of performance,
reliability and technology reinforced by the engineering
expertise of the Renault Group. More
about Renault F1 Team.
Appro delivered a 38TF Xtreme-X™ Supercomputer
for the Renault F1 Team Computational Aerodynamics
Research Centre. The system provides a five-fold
increase in CFD computing capacity with the ability
to run full-car simulations in addition to the aerodynamic
testing of components such as the front and rear
wings, turning vanes, brake ducts, fuel tanks and
more.
Customer Quote
“Appro not only offered us a cost effective
solution but they also improved our required technical
specification through better reliability, greater
fault tolerance and redundancy as well as more flexibility
with regards to system scalability.”
Technical Director, Renault F1 Team |
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The University of Tsukuba
The University of Tsukuba takes an active role in
promoting efforts to improve both advanced education
and academic research in Japan. . More
about University of Tsukuba.
Appro deployed 95TF, Quad Rail, Redundant Fat Tree
Appro Xtreme-X™ Supercomputer to the Center
for Computational Sciences at the University of
Tsukuba, one of Japan's leading academic research
institutions. Currently, the Appro Xtreme-X Supercomputer
is listed as the second-fastest supercomputer system
in Japan.
Customer Quote:
"The University selected Appro’s Xtreme-X
Supercomputer for its matchless Quad-Rail system
interconnect, which provides the lowest-latency
and the highest bandwidth performance to meet both
capacity and capability computing requirements for
research programs at Tsukuba’s Center for
Computational Sciences."
Prof. Boku
Tsukuba’s Center of computational
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Tri-Laboratory Linux Capacity Cluster
TLCC07 was a program for procuring Linux supercomputing
clusters as a joint effort for three National Nuclear
Security Administration (NNSA) weapons laboratories:
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Los Alamos
National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories. More
about TLCC07 Program.
Appro delivered a massive
of scalable supercomputing Linux clusters that is
now used principally to provide needed computational
support to NNSA’s nuclear weapons programs,
notably Stockpile Stewardship – the program
to ensure the safety, security and reliability of
the nation’s nuclear deterrent without nuclear
testing.
Customer Quote:
“The ability to provide a Scalable Architecture
in multiple scalable clusters to all three national
Lab sites at a lower TCO is of great value to NNSA’s
effort to apply high performance computing to time-urgent
national security challenges. In the past, high-end
Linux clusters were more expensive and difficult
to integrate and deploy. By defining a“building
block” approach to structure these multiple
cluster deployments using COTS parts, the tri-Labs
were able to significantly reduce TCO, simplify
the integration and deployment of multiple Linux
clusters at all three Laboratories and put highly
needed capacity clusters into production on an accelerated
timeline.”
"We’re seeing a performance boost of
anywhere from 1.3 to 1.8 times compared to the previous
system. The users are very excited about getting
this kind of capability.”
Mark Seager, Advanced Computing Technology
lead for LLNL |
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”Appro is an increasingly successful player in the high
performance computing market and continues to win highly sought-after
business against all competitors. The company delivers innovative,
scalable open-standards systems and hybrid cluster solutions
to accelerate scientific and engineering progress in the government,
academic and industrial sectors. IDC expects the HPC market
to exhibit healthy growth over the next five years, and Appro
is well positioned to benefit from this growth.”
Earl Joseph,
IDC Program Vice President, Technical Computing
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