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History
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.
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2010 - 2011
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- Appro revealed the next gen Xtreme-X™ Supercomputer to address four critical HPC workloads: Capacity, Hybrid, Data Intensive, and Capability Computing. The new Xtreme-X is features the latest processing and accelerator technologies, increased performance/watt, multiple high performance network connectivity, I/O and disk options along with specialized professional services.
- SDSC selected Appro to deliver the world's first HPC system to employ massive amounts of Intel® SSD 710 Series flash memory to greatly reduce I/O latency. The supercomputer, named Gordon by SDSC, significantly accelerates data intensive applications to achieve up to 35M IOPS.
- Appro delivered 800TFLOPS Supercomputer to University of Tsukuba. This award marked the second consecutive HPC system Tsukuba has purchased from Appro. The supercomputer, nicknamed Frontier Computing System, will enable large-scale HPC scientific research simulations for particle physics, astrophysics, biophysics, and climate.
-Appro nabs exclusive supercomputing deal with three US national laboratories. 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 NNSA. Multiple systems will be delivered to the three national labs: Lawrence Livermore (LLNL), Los Alamos (LANL) and Sandia (SNL) National Laboratories.
- 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 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. |
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2008 - 2009
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- 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.
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2006 - 2007
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- 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.
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2004 - 2005
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- 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. |
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2001 - 2004
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| 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. |
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1991 - 2000
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| 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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”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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