News Coverage
March 3, 2011 |
New SDSC Supercomputer Targets High Productivity
The SDSC Trestles system, provided by Appro, is among the five largest in the TeraGrid repertoire, with 10,368 processor cores, a peak speed of 100 teraflop/s, 20 terabytes memory, and 38 terabytes of flash memory. |
March 3, 2011 |
Trestles Supercomputer Targets High Productivity Users
The Trestles system is based on Quad-socket, 8-Core AMD Opteron compute nodes connected via a QDR InfiniBand Fabric configured by SDSC and Appro. This project was the result of a $2.8 million award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). |
Dec 8, 2010 |
US
DoD Plumps For Appro CPU/GPU Hybrids
Appro has landed its first contract with the
US Department of Defense and will build and
install hybrid CPU-GPU machines that will be
deployed in five supercomputer centers. |
Dec 7, 2010 |
Lockheed
Martin Selects Appro CPU-GPU System for DoD
Appro to support High Performance Computing
Modernization Program (HPCMP) to improve supercomputing
capabilities and strengthen national prominence
by advancing critical HPC technologies and expertise.
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Nov 29, 2010
Nov 23, 2010 |
HPC
Blog: Overclocking For Servers
High frequency trader's entire business model
is based on exploiting pricing differences between
exchanges and markets. Appro is the first established
HPC vendor to respond to this need by using
overclocking.
HPC
Blog: Appro Talks Super-Dense Servers
Every server vendor has some sort of integrated
CPU-GPU system. The Appro 1U Tetra system offers
more GPUs than any other manufacturer in a small
1U package. |
Nov 3, 2010 |
Nuke
Lab Gets Visual with GPU Cluster
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has a
new machine, called Edge, comprised of 216 two-socket
server nodes from server maker Appro. |
Oct 22, 2010 |
Seismic
Validation Comes Pre-Packaged
Landmark Software Services, Intel, and Appro
acted as computer guru as they put together
a system with home-computer convenience and
the power to put together the right seismic
acquisition coverage in complex projects. |
Oct 20, 2010 |
SEG:
Package Offers Seismic Coverage Validation
The Seismic Coverage Validation software runs
on the Appro GreenBlade System based on Intel
Xeon processors featuring dual sockets and 32
nodes, with up to 12 CPU per node and 8 GB of
memory. |
October 13, 2010 |
Appro
Overclocks HF1 Server for Hedge Funds
I f you're a hedge fund that wants to do super-fast
trades to get ahead of the about-to-crash competition,
Appro has just the server for you. It's called
the Appro HF1 server, short for high-frequency
trading. |
October 12, 2010 |
Appro
Readies HFT Server Line
Once again Appro takes the leadership role introducing
the new 3U Appro HF1 server, the industry’s
first High Frequency server available based
on Intel® Xeon® Processors 5600 series. |
September 8, 2010 |
Appro
Sells Another Flash-Happy HPC Cluster
Appro has got another big order from its biggest
customer, San Diego Supercomputer Center. The
new machine is called "Trestles" and
will weigh in at 100 teraflops, have lots of
flash memory, and will give researchers a head
start on programming for flashy x64-based clusters. |
September 7, 2010 |
SDSC
Puts Data at Center Stage
The naming of Michael Norman as director of
the San Diego Supercomputer Center was long
overdue. The appointment could mark something
of a comeback for the center, which has not
only gone director-less during this time, but
has been operating without a high-end supercomputer
as well. |
August 19, 2010 |
NSF
Awards SDSC $2.8 Million for Trestles Supercomputer
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded
the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University
of California, San Diego, $2.8 million to build
and deploy a new high performance computer system
called Trestles. |
June 16, 2010 |
Nuke
Lab Tests Flashy HPC Server Cluster
US nuke lab Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
has tapped longtime HPC cluster partner Appro
International to custom-build a 100 TB flash-based
storage system for its Hyperion x64 testbed
cluster. |
May 2010 |
More
Xtreme-X Supercomputer Configurations Offered
Supercomputing has and will continue to revolutionize
the playing field for practitioners of high-level
analysis. Over the past couple of years, the
cost of getting into supercomputing has come
down to the point where small- and mid-sized
organizations can get onto the field. Appro
has made the entry-point more attractive as
part of an expansion of their Xtreme-X Supercomputer
line and ACE cluster management software |
May 4, 2010 |
Appro
Adds 'Fermi' GPUs to HPC Portfolio
The new 'Fermi' Tesla 20-series products from
NVIDIA are about to hit the streets and HPC
vendors are lining up to get the latest GPU
goodies into their machines. Appro has launched
two Fermi-based systems: an updated GPU-accelerated
GreenBlade offering and a brand new 1U server
that puts 2 CPUs and 4 GPUs in the same box. |
May 4, 2010 |
NVIDIA
Fermi Hits Flop Hungry Challengers
Appro has been jazzed about GPU coprocessors
for years and has cooked up two different hybrid
machines using the NVIDIA M2050 GPU coprocessor,
one a rack design and the other a hybrid blade
design. |
January 20, 2010 |
Clusters
Optimized for CAE
Appro Ready-To-Go Cluster series are engineered
to be easy for entry-level users to purchase,
deploy, and manage. Certified Intel Cluster
Ready and optimized to run CAE applications
from ANSYS these clusters are pre-configured
and pre-tested. |
January 1, 2010 |
Appro
Assists LLNL with New Cluster Design for Extreme-Scale
Visualization
A challenge facing the LLNL visualization team
was the design and procurement of a cluster
with enough horsepower to manage the large data
sets generated by clusters. LLNL requested an
Appro Hyper supercomputing cluster, designed
to support interactive data analysis on extreme-scale
computing systems. |
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is well positioned to benefit from this growth.”
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