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History






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2007 |
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. This represents the first time,
under a single contract, that the tri-Labs purchase
the same high performance computing systems for deployment
at all three sites.
The TLCC07 program represents a multi-million dollar
contract between Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
(www.llnl.gov) and Appro (www.appro.com) to provide
scalable Linux high performance clusters with up to
438 teraFLOP/s in 21 Scalable Units (SU) with an option
for an additional 10 SU, 200 teraFLOP/s of capacity
computing power to be deployed in 8 separate Linux
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2006 |
Appro introduces XtremeServers 1U and
3U products. The availability of these new servers
expands the Xtreme product line that Appro launched
last year when it introduced XtremeBlade. The new
1U and 3U XtremeServers provide innovative server
technology designed to deliver outstanding performance
and reliability with extreme memory scalability
for compute and memory intensive applications.
Lawrence Livermore National Labs Awards the Peloton
Project to Appro’s SuperComputing Scalable
Units based on Quad Socket, Appro XtremeServers
Dual-Core AMD Opteron™ Processors.
Appro Delivers the Largest Linux Supercomputing
Clusters to Lawrence Livermore National Labs Based
on AMD Opteron™ Processors. Appro powers up
performance with 4 processor server cluster architecture.
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2005
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Appro launches APPRO XtremeBlade
next-generation HPC server cluster solution delivering
High-Performance computing with improved reliability
and scalability. The XtremeBlade raises the bar for
the industry with its highly customized components,
integrated Infiniband network switches and centralized
management.
XtremeBlade marks a major milestone for Appro as the
company assumes a larger role in the high-performance,
high-availability, grid computing and enterprise database
computing markets.
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2004
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Appro takes a leadership
role in 1U market with the introduction of APPRO 1142H
server -- the most powerful 1U 4-way server available.
Appro opens sales and service office in Houston, Texas.
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2003
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APPRO HyperBlade launches
with AMD Opteron processor in conjunction with AMD
Opteron availability announcement.
Appro announces APPRO HyperBlade Intel Xeon based
cluster server at Intel Developer Forum.
HyperBlade marks a significant milestone for Appro
as the company delivers high-density blade architecture
by using commodity x86 components to address the high-performance
and technical computing markets.
Appro partners with Raytheon, HPC Solutions Group
to market HyperBlade cluster solutions and Raytheon's
value added services to address multiple vertical
markets.
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2003
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Appro expands manufacturing,
engineering and product development team in Asia.
Appro enters blade cluster market with APPRO HyperBlade
Server Cluster Solution, a highly flexible, modular
and scalable blade cluster building block featuring
remote management, and high-speed interconnect options.
Appro showcases its first blade architecture solution
at Super Computing show.
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2003
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Appro expands its capabilities
in the high-performance computing market with its
AMD Athlon and Intel Xeon processor 1U and 2U servers.
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2000
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Appro produces and markets
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 - 1999
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Appro launches in US market
as OEM rackmount computer systems manufacturer and
quickly becomes one of the fastest growing rackmount
computer companies.
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Appro is focusing its product design to address the HPC cluster
market and key customer requirements including system management,
high availability and price/performance for HPC applications.
Appro has shown the ability to win highly sought-after, large-scale
HPC deals positioning the company to benefit from strong market
growth that IDC projects through 2012.
Earl Joseph,
IDC Program Vice President, Technical Computing

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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.
Bob Bell,
Technical Director, ING Renault F1 Team

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