Company Overview
Appro is a leading developer of innovative supercomputing solutions. Appro is uniquely positioned to support High-Performance Computing (HPC) markets focusing on medium to large-scale deployments where lower total cost of ownership is essential. Appro accelerates technical applications and business results through outstanding price/performance, power efficient and fast time-to-market solutions based on the latest open standards technologies, innovative cluster tools and management software packaged with HPC professional services and support.
Appro supercomputing solutions enables scientists and engineers to use data-intensive, capacity, capability and hybrid computing for scientific research, data modeling, engineering simulations, and seismic visualization.
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Mission:
Our mission is to provide high-value supercomputing solutions
including professional services to meet customers’ technical
requirements through our commitment to product innovation, quality
and customer support.
What We do
Appro applies new thinking to create simple, valuable and trusted experiences with HPC technology focus. Appro offers power-efficient and performance-optimized platforms based on Appro's Scalable Units (SUs) and Supercomputing Cluster Architecture. The Appro SU is the building block that enables multiple clusters to be built, based on the same cluster architecture for small, medium and large-sized HPC deployments across a broad range of vertical markets. This architecture enables volume purchase of multiple clusters to be deployed as stand-alone supercomputers while providing customers flexibility and price/performance. Appro's performance history with its Scalable Supercomputing Cluster Architecture includes large installations to both Government and Commercial High Performance Computing customers.
The IT Computational Challenge and HPC Technology
Trends
Today HPC revenue CAGR is estimated to be 7.0% from 2010 to 2015 reaching $36.0 billion in 2015, $10.4 billion growth 2011-2015. The growth will be the highest in 2011 and 2012 before moderating to more sustainable growth rates in the outer years. While clusters have revolutionized High Performance Computing, the standardization of operating systems has also made an impact. Linux and Windows have seen worldwide growth. Gigabit Ethernet, specifically 10GE will continue to show moderate growth along with the size of the HPC market, but InfiniBand providing high bandwidth and low latency capabilities will continue to show the best growth at the expense of alternative high-end proprietary interconnects. The amounts of raw data needed to process research analysis creates a huge demand for computing power and the use of multi-core processors helps feed this demand. The trend toward parallelism makes the industry adopts multi-core technologies while addressing unique workload configurations to support high performance computing application requirements. GPU and co-processor computing will also help accelerate this adoption; nevertheless, HPC users will still demand better reliability, availability, manageability, compatibility and power efficiency for their supercomputing installations.
Appro's key differentiation includes:
Optimized Architecture – Delivering a Competitive Edge
Appro products and solutions offer performance, reliability, flexibility and choice, so customers can select high-value supercomputing solutions including professional services and support that meet their technical requirements at a lower TCO. Appro delivers products leveraging open architectures that improve bandwidth, performance scalability, reliability and availability while improving performance of customers' applications. Appro's focus is on making sure that the managed solution delivers the processing, memory, and networking performance needed to accomplish the task quickly, reliably, and affordably. This provides a tremendous amount of value add for customers looking to accelerate their business results from an optimized infrastructure.
Innovative and Flexible Solutions
Appro offers optimized and green supercomputing solutions that support a variety of system configuration options coupled with the latest technologies. Appro delivers complete end-to-end solution and is tightly integrated Management Software Suite featuring job scheduling, fail-over, load balancing and revision control capabilities with multiple Linux OS support. In addition, Appro's innovative and flexible design can be easily catered to address customers' specific needs.
Standard Technologies – Open High Performance Computing
Appro delivers innovative servers and solutions designed to work with existing IT environments. Appro's products are industry standards compliant, featuring multiple high performance network connectivity solutions, multiple I/O and disk options, with the choice of AMD, Intel® processors or a combination of processors and co-processors using NVIDIA® GPU Computing Technologies or future Intel MIC, Many Integrated Cores.
Holistic Factory Services and HPC Solution Expertise
Appro System Delivery Integration Services and Engineering team designs the Best in Class Supercomputers to our customers. All services are factory assembled and integrated, pre-tested, packaged and ready to ship. Appro is capable of delivering up to 2 PetaFlops system with shortened production cycles including customer pre-acceptance testing with options for on-site professional installation and/or customized services.
System Management - Simplifying IT Administration
Appro’s goal is to simplify IT administration. Appro Cluster
Engine™ Management Software suite is a carefully layered architecture
composed with network, server Management, cluster and Storage
Management.
Technology Partners- Creating Industry Technology Solutions
Together, Appro and its partners create end-to-end industry-leading
solutions for our customers. Our partnership model gives us
the ability to be flexible and respond to your specific needs,
regardless of whether you are a global enterprise or small business.
Our partner relationships help us create out-of-the-box, innovative
solutions for end-users who need to achieve high performance,
scalability, and reliability at a very competitive cost.
Products and Services
Appro offers supercomputing solutions ranging from
power-efficient and performance-optimized platforms to include
HPC services and support:
Appro Supercomputing Solutions
The Third Generation, Appro Xtreme-X™ Supercomputer
– Ideal Solution for Mid to Large-Sized HPC Deployments
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The new Appro Xtreme-X Supercomputer is based on industry standard, optimized server platforms featuring extreme compute density, increased performance/watt, multiple high performance network connectivity, I/O and disc options with choice of the latest processor technologies. The system will provide significant savings in power consumption through the intelligent energy-efficient design of the platform and utilization of liquid cooling solution and system configuration options for a mixture of data center architecture requirements. The Appro Xtreme-X Supercomputer is tightly integrated with the Appro HPC Software Stack providing a supported version of the Grid Engine Batch Scheduler compatible with most open source and commercial compilers, tools, schedules, and libraries. The Appro Cluster Engine (ACE) Management Software suite is part of the Appro software stack and is designed to eliminate the complexity of managing HPC clusters while providing all the necessary tools to run complex applications. ACE offers server, cluster, storage, and network management features combined with job scheduling, failover, load-balancing, and revision control capabilities with multi-Linux OS support.
Appro GreenBlade and Rackmount Servers with GPU Options
The Appro GreenBlade™ and Appro rack-mount servers offer cluster building block platforms that can be configured with 2 to 4 processors and a mix and match of CPUs and many-core accelerators using NVIDIA Tesla 20 Series or the future Intel Many Integrated Cores (MIC) providing great flexibility, performance, power efficiency and simplified management. These platforms are ideal for building supercomputing cluster in capacity, hybrid, data intensive, and capability to create a scalable, high-density, and powerful computing system.
Worldwide Services and Support
Appro's HPC Solutions Group delivers the complete system to the customer - the hardware, the software, and the applications. Appro's HPC Support and Services team includes system integration, project management, consultation services as well as global support and managed services through strategic partner alliance.
- Target Markets:
- Government / Defense
- Education and Research
- Climate/Weather
- Life Sciences
- Oil and Gas
- Financial Analysis
- Digital Content Creation
Select Customer List:
San Diego Supercomputing Center (SDSC), Chevron Texaco, Hess
Corporation, Lawrence Livermore National Labs, Sandia National
Labs, WesternGeco, Penn State University, Raytheon, AMD, Rice
University, Lockheed Martin, Active Financial, Halliburton,
ANSYS, Los Alamos National Labs, Conoco, Paradigm Geophysical,
Lawerence Berkeley Lab, Naval Research Lab, Boeing, Intel, Renault
Formula 1 Team, Rice University, University of Tsukuba, Japan.
Corporate Snapshot:
• Appro was incorporated in 1991
• Headquarters in Milpitas, CA (Silicon Valley)
• Advanced Computing Center in Houston, Texas
. - Regional sales, support and SW development office
..- Appro benchmark facility
• Manufacturing & Support subsidiary in South Korea and Japan
• Sales and support teams, both national and international
Headquarters
Appro International, Inc.
446 South Abbott Avenue
Milpitas, CA 95035
Tel: (408)941-8100
Fax: (408)941-8111
www.appro.com
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