News Coverage
Dec 6, 2011 |
Flash Forward: SDSC Launches Data-Intensive Supercomputer
Gordon, the largest flash memory-based computer on the planet, was officially launched at a ceremony that took place on Monday at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC). Two years in the making, and backed by a $20 million Track 2 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Gordon represents the first really big purpose-built supercomputer for data-intensive applications. |
Nov 24, 2011 |
Three Labs, One (Big) Cluster
Watch this video as we spend a few minutes at an Intel SC11 hospitality event in Seattle talking with Matt Leininger, LLNL Deputy of Advanced Technology Projects, about the U.S. DOE National Nuclear Security Administraion's Tri-Lab procurement. |
Nov 23, 2011 |
Gordon the Supercomputer is Intense About Data
Gordon, the world's first data intensive supercomputer, was being shipped from Appro to SDSC during SC11 in Seattle. Watch this video interview with Michael Norman, brainchild of the Gordon system, to find out what he means by 'data intensive supercomputer' and how Gordon is different from what's come before. |
Nov 16, 2011 |
Appro Xtreme-X Ranks Among Top 15 Fastest Supercomputers in the World
Appro announced that three U.S. national laboratories under contract with the US Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) initiated deployment of the next-generation, Appro Xtreme-X Supercomputer. According to the latest Top500 list, one of the systems was ranked as the 15th fastest supercomputer in the world. |
Nov 14, 2011 |
Appro Xtreme-X Ranks Among Top 15 Fastest Supercomputers in the World
Appro announced that three U.S. national laboratories under contract with the US Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) initiated deployment of the next-generation, Appro Xtreme-X Supercomputer based on Intel Xeon processor E5 Family. According to the latest Top500 list, one of the systems was ranked as the 15th fastest supercomputer in the world. |
Nov 3, 2011 |
Appro, Penguin Use Newest AMD, Intel Chips in HPC Systems
Appro officials on Nov. 2 unveiled plans for the next generation of their Xtreme-X supercomputer, which will be powered by AMD’s upcoming Opteron 6200 “Interlagos” processor and Intel’s Xeon E5. The system also will support Intel’s upcoming Many Integrated Core (MIC) architecture. |
Nov 2, 2011 |
Appro goes extreme with new Xtreme-X supers
Appro is previewing its 3rd generation of Xtreme-X blade-based supercomputers - but "previewing" is just about all it can do without some help from Intel and AMD. The company has carved out some nice business from the major supercomputer labs in the US as well as other labs and academic institutions around the world, but now finds itself in a position where it needs Intel and AMD to get the lead out and launch their new x86 server processors so it can talk more about its new supercomputers. |
Nov 2, 2011 |
Appro Boosts Flagship Product Line with Latest CPUs, Accelerators
The new Xtreme-X platform has encouraged Appro to start thinking more about capability systems. Up until recently, the company has been focused on capacity clusters - systems partitioned to run a number of different workloads simultaneously over short periods of time. Capability systems, on the other hand, typically run one large application, or at least one large application at a time that can run for days or even weeks. |
Sept 22, 2011 |
Appro and SDSC Gordon Supercomputer to Provide up to 35M IOPS
The next generation Appro Xtreme-X Supercomputer, named Gordon by the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) will be integrated with the new Intel iSolid-State Drive 710 Series that will significantly accelerate data intensive applications to achieve up to 35 million Input/Output Operations Per Second (IOPS). |
Sept 22, 2011 |
Work Begins on Radical Gordon Super Flash-Ccomputer
Supercomputer maker Appro International has finally begun building the "Gordon" flash-heavy supercomputer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, which was funded by a $20M grant from the National Science Foundation nearly two years ago. The machine is a testbed to analyze what happens when you get the I/O and floating point operations in a parallel supercomputer in balance. |
Sept 16, 2011 |
Appro to Deliver 800TFLOPs Supercomputer to Japan's University of Tsukuba
Appro announced that their Xtreme-X Supercomputer, based on the future Intel Xeon processor E5 Family, was selected by the Center for Computational Sciences at the University of Tsukuba. The award marks the University's second consecutive large-scale HPC system purchase from Appro. |
Sept 14, 2011 |
University of Tsukuba Orders 800TFLOP Xeon E5 Hybrid
Supercomputer upstart Appro International has bagged a deal to supply Tsukuba University in Japan with an 800 teraflops machine based on Intel's impending "Sandy Bridge" Xeon E5 processors. The "Frontier" system, as it will be called at Tsukuba, is based on Appro's Xtreme-X design and is being installed at the Center for Computational Sciences. |
June 8, 2011 |
Appro Comes Up Multi-Million Dollar Winner in HPC Procurement for NNSA
For the second time in five years, Appro has been tapped to provide the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) with HPC capacity clusters for the agency's Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASC) and stockpile stewardship programs. The Tri-Lab Linux Capacity Cluster 2 (TLCC2) award is a two-year contract that will have the cluster-maker delivering HPC systems across three of the Department of Energy's national labs. |
June 8, 2011 |
Appro Wins 6 PetaFLOPs Contract from DOE Nuke Labs
Supercomputer supplier Appro has won a massive contract from the US Department of Energy to supply up to 6 petaflops of raw computing power to three of its nuke labs. The deal with the three nuke labs - Lawrence Livermore, Los Alamos, and Sandia National Laboratories, often called Tri-Labs - represents the largest procurement in company history in terms of both money and aggregate number-crunching power. |
May 20, 2011 |
Appro Supercomputers Help Simulate Research for Nuclear Science
Research into nuclear and energy-related issues at the USA's Idaho National Laboratory (INL) has taken a step forward with the installation of a new 12,512-processor supercomputer. Appro's "Fission" is a vital tool in helping the INL conduct and find nuclear and energy-related issues. |
May 20, 2011 |
Appro Plunks AMD Opteron™ Supercomputer into US Fission Lab
Appro has scored a relatively big win, getting a large cluster of its Xtreme-X parallel machines installed and running at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL), one of the little known labs of the US Department of Energy, allowing researchers to simulate a nuclear fuel rod as it operates within a simulated fission reactor. |
May 18, 2011 |
Idaho National Laboratory Selects Appro Xtreme-X Supercomputer
The Appro Xtreme-X Fission Supercomputer consists of 14 racks with a total of 12,512 cores based on AMD Opteron processors that will help build more complete scientific models and better predict outcomes for nuclear and energy-related issues. |
May 17, 2011 |
Appro Adds New NVIDIA® Tesla™ M2090 to Lineup
Appro announces the availability of NVIDIA Tesla M2090 GPU computing capability for the Appro Tetra and GreenBlade server platforms and Appro Xtreme-X and HyperPower Supercomputing solutions. |
March 3, 2011 |
Trestles Supercomputer Targets High Productivity Users
The Trestles system is based on Quad-socket, 8-Core AMD Opteron compute nodes connected via a QDR InfiniBand Fabric configured by SDSC and Appro. This project was the result of a $2.8 million award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). |
March 3, 2011 |
New SDSC Supercomputer Targets High Productivity
The SDSC Trestles system, provided by Appro, is among the five largest in the TeraGrid repertoire, with 10,368 processor cores, a peak speed of 100 teraflop/s, 20 terabytes memory, and 38 terabytes of flash memory. |
Dec 8, 2010 |
US
DoD Plumps For Appro CPU/GPU Hybrids
Appro has landed its first contract with the
US Department of Defense and will build and
install hybrid CPU-GPU machines that will be
deployed in five supercomputer centers. |
Dec 7, 2010 |
Lockheed
Martin Selects Appro CPU-GPU System for DoD
Appro to support High Performance Computing
Modernization Program (HPCMP) to improve supercomputing
capabilities and strengthen national prominence
by advancing critical HPC technologies and expertise.
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Nov 29, 2010
Nov 23, 2010 |
HPC
Blog: Overclocking For Servers
High frequency trader's entire business model
is based on exploiting pricing differences between
exchanges and markets. Appro is the first established
HPC vendor to respond to this need by using
overclocking.
HPC
Blog: Appro Talks Super-Dense Servers
Every server vendor has some sort of integrated
CPU-GPU system. The Appro 1U Tetra system offers
more GPUs than any other manufacturer in a small
1U package. |
Nov 3, 2010 |
Nuke
Lab Gets Visual with GPU Cluster
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has a
new machine, called Edge, comprised of 216 two-socket
server nodes from server maker Appro. |
Oct 22, 2010 |
Seismic
Validation Comes Pre-Packaged
Landmark Software Services, Intel, and Appro
acted as computer guru as they put together
a system with home-computer convenience and
the power to put together the right seismic
acquisition coverage in complex projects. |
Oct 20, 2010 |
SEG:
Package Offers Seismic Coverage Validation
The Seismic Coverage Validation software runs
on the Appro GreenBlade System based on Intel
Xeon processors featuring dual sockets and 32
nodes, with up to 12 CPU per node and 8 GB of
memory. |
October 13, 2010 |
Appro
Overclocks HF1 Server for Hedge Funds
I f you're a hedge fund that wants to do super-fast
trades to get ahead of the about-to-crash competition,
Appro has just the server for you. It's called
the Appro HF1 server, short for high-frequency
trading. |
October 12, 2010 |
Appro
Readies HFT Server Line
Once again Appro takes the leadership role introducing
the new 3U Appro HF1 server, the industry’s
first High Frequency server available based
on Intel® Xeon® Processors 5600 series. |
September 8, 2010 |
Appro
Sells Another Flash-Happy HPC Cluster
Appro has got another big order from its biggest
customer, San Diego Supercomputer Center. The
new machine is called "Trestles" and
will weigh in at 100 teraflops, have lots of
flash memory, and will give researchers a head
start on programming for flashy x64-based clusters. |
September 7, 2010 |
SDSC
Puts Data at Center Stage
The naming of Michael Norman as director of
the San Diego Supercomputer Center was long
overdue. The appointment could mark something
of a comeback for the center, which has not
only gone director-less during this time, but
has been operating without a high-end supercomputer
as well. |
August 19, 2010 |
NSF
Awards SDSC $2.8 Million for Trestles Supercomputer
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded
the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University
of California, San Diego, $2.8 million to build
and deploy a new high performance computer system
called Trestles. |
June 16, 2010 |
Nuke
Lab Tests Flashy HPC Server Cluster
US nuke lab Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
has tapped longtime HPC cluster partner Appro
International to custom-build a 100 TB flash-based
storage system for its Hyperion x64 testbed
cluster. |
May 2010 |
More
Xtreme-X Supercomputer Configurations Offered
Supercomputing has and will continue to revolutionize
the playing field for practitioners of high-level
analysis. Over the past couple of years, the
cost of getting into supercomputing has come
down to the point where small- and mid-sized
organizations can get onto the field. Appro
has made the entry-point more attractive as
part of an expansion of their Xtreme-X Supercomputer
line and ACE cluster management software |
May 4, 2010 |
Appro
Adds 'Fermi' GPUs to HPC Portfolio
The new 'Fermi' Tesla 20-series products from
NVIDIA are about to hit the streets and HPC
vendors are lining up to get the latest GPU
goodies into their machines. Appro has launched
two Fermi-based systems: an updated GPU-accelerated
GreenBlade offering and a brand new 1U server
that puts 2 CPUs and 4 GPUs in the same box. |
May 4, 2010 |
NVIDIA
Fermi Hits Flop Hungry Challengers
Appro has been jazzed about GPU coprocessors
for years and has cooked up two different hybrid
machines using the NVIDIA M2050 GPU coprocessor,
one a rack design and the other a hybrid blade
design. |
January 20, 2010 |
Clusters
Optimized for CAE
Appro Ready-To-Go Cluster series are engineered
to be easy for entry-level users to purchase,
deploy, and manage. Certified Intel Cluster
Ready and optimized to run CAE applications
from ANSYS these clusters are pre-configured
and pre-tested. |
January 1, 2010 |
Appro
Assists LLNL with New Cluster Design for Extreme-Scale
Visualization
A challenge facing the LLNL visualization team
was the design and procurement of a cluster
with enough horsepower to manage the large data
sets generated by clusters. LLNL requested an
Appro Hyper supercomputing cluster, designed
to support interactive data analysis on extreme-scale
computing systems. |
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