**In November, Appro marks a major milestone by being selected for another major procurement to deliver "Gordon" 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.

**In June, Appro announced the new Appro HyperPower™ Cluster Solution, a hybrid and fully integrated solution to include professional services and cluster management options based on the latest CPUs/GPUs computing technologies. In the following month, Appro was awarded a huge deal with a high profile oil and gas company to deliver several Appro HyperPower GPU clusters based on NVIDIA Tesla and NVIDIA Cuda’s software technology.

**In May, San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) selects Appro as one of the first vendors for ‘Triton Resource’, an integrated, data-intensive computing system primarily designed to support UC San Diego and UC researchers. Triton Compute Cluster (TCC): A scalable cluster configured to operate either in a standard batch mode, or be set up so users can run customized software stacks at scale, with full connectivity to large-scale storage. Appro GreenBlade™ system based on Intel Xeon Processors was selected for this highly competitive procurement.

**In April, Appro is awarded a contract for a mid-sized Appro HyperGreen™ Cluster solution with 94 nodes/752 processing cores for Rice University's Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology in Houston, TX. Located in the world's energy capital, Rice is a leader in the application of high-performance computing (HPC) for the oil and gas industry, and the university also boasts cutting-edge computational research in disciplines as diverse as biomedicine, energy, the environment, nanotechnology and materials science.

**In the second quarter of 2009, Appro continues to address the difficult economic conditions by offering more flexibility, scalability, energy-efficiency with an affordable cluster architecture. Appro launches the Appro HyperGreen™ clusters based on the Appro GreenBlade™ system. This fully integrated cluster solution provides a lot more flexibility offering a choice of servers, networking, interconnects and an open commercially supported cluster management solution to include HPC professional services and support.

**In the first quarter of 2009, Appro launches a new blade system, the Appro GreenBlade™ in response to the economic downturn. The Appro GreenBlade™ System is a solution building block offering a modular, affordable, energy-efficient architecture that responds to the natural business growth of small HPC deployments. Appro’s GreenBlade™ System is also part of the Appro’s "Going Green" initiative to address the HPC environmental challenges with performance optimized and power-efficient solutions.

**In November, Appro also finalizes the deployment of massive supercomputing clusters to the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Defense Programs laboratories: Lawrence Livermore, Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratories. Appro deployed to the three national laboratories 21 Scalable Units (SU) – 438 TFLOP/s, Linux high performance clusters and an additional 200 TFLOP/s of 10 SUs included as options. The Appro scalable clusters are 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.

**In October, Appro completes the final deployment of the 38 TFLOP/s, Appro Xtreme-X™ Supercomputer for the new Renault F1 Team Computational Aerodynamics Research Centre providing them with more computing power to run full-car aerodynamic simulations using CFD applications required for improving the Renault F1 Team’s cars.
In parallel with this final deployment, Appro also finalizes deployment of a 95TF Appro Xtreme-X Supercomputer to the Center of Computational Sciences at the University of Tsukuba, one of Japan's leading academic research institutions.

**In February, Appro was awarded another contract with the ING 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 provides a five fold increase in CFD computing capacity and will be used to run full-car simulations for their 2008 F1 R28 and 2009 R29 racing cars to include aerodynamic tests and more.

**In January, Appro is awarded a contract for a 95TF Appro Xtreme-X Supercomputer to the Center of Computational Sciences at the University of Tsukuba, one of Japan's leading academic research institutions. The Tsukuba award is a major breakthrough for Appro’s supercomputers into the Japanese HPC market. The Xtreme-X systems will provide the lowest-latency and the highest bandwidth performance to meet both capacity and capability computing requirements for Tsukuba’s computational scientific research programs.

**Appro launches the Xtreme-X™ Supercomputer Series based on x86 processors from AMD and Intel The system combines high performance and high availability in a scalable well-balanced architecture ideal for scaling out datacenters to 1000TF 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. 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 and Appro to provide scalable Linux high performance clusters with up to 438 TFLOP/s in 21 Scalable Units (SU) of capacity computing power.

**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 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 and scalability for compute and memory intensive applications.

2004

2003

**Appro partners with Raytheon, HPC Solutions Group to market HyperBlade cluster solutions and Raytheon's value added services to address multiple vertical markets.

**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 officially launches HyperBlade based clusters based on AMD Opteron and Intel Xeon processors.

2002

2001-2002

**Appro expands its branded products line by launching 1U and 2U servers for the high-performance computing market using x86 processors from AMD and Intel.

**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.

1991 - 2000

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