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Appro expanded its product portfolio and brand recognition in the HPC market by delivering complete supercomputing solutions enabling scientists and engineers to meet future computational challenges on a wide variety of applications.


2010 - 2011

 

 




- Appro finalizes Xtreme-X Supercomputer deployment to Six DOD Supercomputing Resource Centers (DSRCs) in support of the High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP). Under Lockheed Martin subcontract, this was the first deployment of identical supercomputing systems installed across all six major DSRC sites.

- Appro announces the HF1 server, industry’s first high frequency server to offer extreme speeds with optimized overclocked capabilities and cutting-edge cooling features for high speed trading applications.

- Appro deployed 100 Teraflops quad-socket based cluster solution, named “Trestles” by SDSC at UC San Diego. This project was a result of grant award from the NSF to build a HPC solution to serve as a bridge between SDSC’s unique, data-intensive resources available to TeraGrid users now and into the future.

- Appro Deployed a World Class Linux Cluster Testbed Solution with accelerated I/O nodes to Lawerence Livermore Laboratory in Support of the Hyperion Project.

- Appro Introduced the Most Powerful 1U Quad GPU Server based on NVIDIA Tesla 20-Series GPUs. The 1U Tetra integrates 2 CPUs and 4 GPUs in a single server delivering the highest density at the best price/performance.

2008 - 2009

 

 

 

 

- Appro announced the new Appro HyperPower™ Cluster Solution, a hybrid CPU/GPU computing based on NVIDIA Tesla and NVIDIA Cuda’s software technology to include professional services and cluster management options. Appro has deployed several GPU clusters up to date.

- Appro marks a major milestone by being selected for another major procurement to deliver "Gordon", Appro Xtreme-X Supercomputer to San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San Diego using the latest technologies to include high speed SSD drives to improve bandwidth and reduce latency as well as the usage of large shared-memory systems to increase compute speed for faster results. Appro has also been the vendor of choice for the SDSC "Triton Resource" and "DASH" data-intensive supercomputing systems.

- Appro launched the Appro GreenBlade™ System. The Appro GreenBlade™ System offers a solution building block with a modular and energy-efficient architecture to respond to the growth of small HPC deployments. Appro’s GreenBlade™ System is part of the Appro’s "Going Green" initiative to address HPC challenges with performance-optimized and power-efficient solutions.

- Appro was selected by Renault Formula 1 Team to provide a 38TF Appro Xtreme-X™ Supercomputer for a brand new, state-of-the-art Computational Fluid Dynamics Centre in the UK. The Appro Xtreme-X was used to run full-car simulations for their 2008 F1 R28 and 2009 R29 racing cars to include aerodynamic tests and more.

- Appro deployed 95TF Appro Xtreme-X Supercomputer to the Center of Computational Sciences at the University of Tsukuba, one of Japan's leading academic research institutions.

2006 - 2007

 

 


 

- Appro launches the Xtreme-X™ Supercomputer Series based on x86 processors. The system combines high performance and high availability in a scalable well-balanced architecture ideal for scaling out datacenters from medium to large sized of computing power. The system features the Appro Cluster Engine™ (ACE) Management Software, a complete lights-out remote management system.

- Appro wins a historic award of Appro Xtreme-X™ high performance computing clusters for the TLCC07 project to be delivered to three National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) weapons laboratories: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories. The TLCC07 program was a multi-million dollar contract for a 438 TFLOP/s of HPC Supercomputing clusters.

- Appro delivers an impressive large linux supercomputing clusters to Lawrence Livermore National Labs for The Peloton Project. Appro powers up performance with its 4-processor server cluster architecture.

- Appro introduces the XtremeServer product line. The XtremeServers were designed to deliver performance, reliability and scalability for compute and memory intensive applications.

2004 - 2005


 

 

- Appro expands manufacturing, engineering and product development team in South Korea.

- Appro introduces its first blade cluster with Appro HyperBlade Server Cluster Solution.

- Appro takes a leadership role in the 1U market with the introduction of Appro 1142H server offering the first 1U 4-processor server available.

2001 - 2004



Appro produced and marketed its own line of branded high-density servers for the high-performance and Internet computing markets. The company transitions from OEM to Appro's branded products.

1991 - 2000



 

Appro was founded in 1991 and expanded in the US market as OEM high performance rackmount computer systems manufacturer and quickly becomes one of the fastest growing rackmount computer companies.


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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






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,” said SDSC Director Michael Norman. “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.”

Michael Norman,
SDSC Director






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