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Our History with the Three National Laboratories







November 12, 2008

Case Study - Lawerence Livermore's extensive computing needs results in a unique collaborative program

Case Study - AMD Accelerate Magazine

November 12, 2008		 Appro Finalizes the Deployment of Massive Supercomputing Clusters to the Three National Laboratories

Appro announces the final deployment of Appro Supercomputing Clusters to Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASC) that integrates the work of the three National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Defense Programs laboratories: LLNL, LAN and SNL.

October 2007		 Appro Wins DOE/NNSA Tri-Lab Contract for Capacity Clusters
The verdict is in on one of this year's important HPC procurements. Appro have won the two-year contract to supply the NNSA with Linux Clusters for capacity computing.

October 2007		 ACS Labs Create Unified Strategy to Add HPC Capacity
Appro announced the win of a $26.1 million government contract to deliver eight Linux clusters to three DOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) weapons laboratories.

October 8, 2007		 Appro Wins Government Computing Contract
The Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has awarded Appro a contract to deliver high-performance computing systems to its three nuclear weapons laboratories.

October 2, 2007		 Appro Wins Huge Deal with Three National Laboratories
Appro announced the historic award of Xtreme-X high performance clusters for the TLCC07 project delivered to the NNSA weapons labs.

August 2, 2007		 Appro Wins Huge Deal with Three National Laboratories for 438 TeraFlop High Performance Computing Clusters
Tri-Laboratory Linux Capacity Cluster (TLCC07) program joins effort for next generation Linux clusters featuring easily replicated four-socket system scalability

June 26, 2007		 Appro at Forefront of Supercomputer History
Case Study: Appro Advances Research at Lawrence Livermore National Lab.

June 28, 2007		 Appro Cluster Solution Ranked 19th Fastest Supercomputer
Appro XtremeServer Cluster "Atlas" at Lawrence Livermore National Lab is officially ranked 19th fastest supercomputer in the world according to the current Top500 list.

June 12, 2007		 Lawrence Livermore Installs Fourth Appro Linux Cluster
Appro delivers Minos Cluster to LLNL comprised of six scalable units based on Appro's 1U Quad XtremeServer Opteron™ machines.

June 4, 2007		 Appro Delivers New Supercomputing Cluster for LLNL
Appro announced the award of an additional supercomputing cluster from LLNL.

June 4, 2007		 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Expands Supercomputing Projects Using Appro Cluster Solutions
The Minos Linux cluster will provide needed capacity computing cycles for Livermore's Stockpile Stewardship scientific simulation.

November 14, 2006 		Appro Delivers The Largest Linux Supercomputing Clusters To LLNL
Appro announced the completion of Rhea, the first of four super compute Linux clusters for Lawrence Livermore National Lab.

November 13, 2006 		Appro Delivers Supercomputing Clusters to Lawrence Livermore Labs
Appro is announcing that it has delivered two supercomputer Linux clusters to Lawrence Livermore.

November 13, 2006 		Appro delivers the largest Linux Supercomputing Clusters to Lawrence Livermore National Labs based on AMD Opteron processors
Rhea, the Infiniband interconnected cluster boasts 576 AMD Opteron processors with peak processing power of 22 teraflop/s.

November 13, 2006 		Livermore Labs Turns To Linux-Based Supercomputing Clusters
Lawrence Livermore will get 100 teraflops combined processing power when it has all four of its new clusters up and running.

June 28, 2006 		LLNL Awards Peloton Project to Appro
LLNL Awards the Peloton Project to Appro’s SuperComputing Scalable Units based on Quad Socket, Dual-Core AMD Opteron™ Processors.











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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Technical Director, ING Renault F1 Team





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