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Los Alamos National Laboratory Deploys Appro Xtreme-X Supercomputer, named “Mustang” by the LANL Institutional Computing Program. The deployment represents approximately $10 Million in production capability computing to support a variety of activities at Los Alamos including ocean, wildfire, plasma physics, materials and nuclear energy.
Customer Quote:
“Scientific computing is a core capability of Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and the addition of the Appro Xtreme-X Supercomputer will provide a broad array of science-based prediction modeling", said Andy White, Deputy Associate Director for Theory, Simulation and Computation |
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Appro and SDSC Gordon Supercomputer to Initiate Supercomputing Delivery of 35M IOPS. The World's First HPC System to Employ Massive Amounts
of SSDs.
Customer Quote:
“This new SDSC supercomputer is designed to support the needs of a wide range of academic and industrial researchers who require fast, interactive methods to manipulate large volumes of structured and unstructured data,” said SDSC director Michael Norman. "Gordon will also become a key part of a network of next-generation high-performance computers (HPC) being made available to the research community through XSEDE, the National Science Foundation’s next-generation program for an open-access national computing grid.” |
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Appro to deliver 800TFLOPs Supercomputer to Japan's University of Tsukuba. The award marks the University's second consecutive large-scale HPC system purchase from Appro.
Customer Quote:
“University of Tsukuba choses the next generation Appro Xtreme-X Supercomputer for our Frontier Computing System. This hybrid system is configured with a mix of 2 CPUs and 4 GPUs per node and dual-rail system interconnect providing low-latency, high performance and high availability computing to support specific application requirements in our next generation of scientific programs", said Taisuke Boku, deputy director of Center for Computational Sciences at University of Tsukuba. |
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Appro's Next Generation Xtreme-X Supercomputer was selected for a multi-million dollar contract exceeding 3 petaFLOP/s by the US Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). Multiple systems will be delivered to the three National Labs in NNSA's Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASC) program: Lawrence Livermore (LLNL), Los Alamos (LANL) and Sandia (SNL) National Laboratories. This contract represents the second time that NNSA has chosen Appro as its multi-year exclusive supplier of comprehensive capacity cluster systems across all three Labs.
Customer Quote:
“These computing clusters will provide needed computing capacity for NNSA’s day-to-day work managing the nation’s nuclear deterrent,” said Don Cook, NNSA’s Deputy Administrator for Defense Programs. “This Tri-Lab effort will help reduce costs, increase operational efficiencies, and facilitate collaborations that benefit our nation’s security, support academia, and promote American competitiveness.” |
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Lockheed Martin chooses Appro Xtreme-X Supercomputers based on Appro Tetra platform for Five US (DoD) Department of Defense
Locations to support the High Performance Computing
Modernization Program (HPCMP) to improve supercomputing
capabilities.
Customer Quote:
“Lockheed Martin is looking forward to receive the Appro Xtreme-X Supercomputer based on the Appro
1U-Tetra 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,” 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,”
said Mark Seager, Head of Advanced Computing Technology,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. |
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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, 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", said
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:
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 is part of the FIA Formula One World Championship. 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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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.", said Prof. Boku Tsukuba’s Center of computational
Sciences |
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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.” Mark Seager, Advanced Computing Technology
lead for LLNL |
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”The HPC cluster market is growing by over 7% a year. Appro aims its innovative product designs to address key HPC cluster requirements including system optimization, cutting-edge technologies, enhanced system management, cooling technologies, and the all-important price/performance to support medium to large-scale environments. Appro has shown the ability to win and deploy highly sought-after, large-scale HPC deals positioning the company to benefit from strong market growth that IDC projects through 2014.”
Earl Joseph,
HPC Program Vice President, IDC
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