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News Coverage







March 2008 |
The
Appro Approach
John Lee, VP of Advanced Technology Solutions at Appro,
sees the HPC space as a continuum with customers focused
on reliable, cost effective, turnkey systems at one
extreme, and engineering or scientific organizations
focused solely on performance at the other end. Where
does his company fit? According to Lee, closer to
the turnkey end. |

March 4, 2008 |
ING
Renault F1 Team Chooses Appro Xtreme-X Supercomputers
Appro has been awarded a contract for a 38TF Supercomputer
for the ING Renault F1 Team Computation Fluid Dynamics
(CFD) Centre, a brand new modern technology-driven
research facility designed to place Renault “in
the pole position” in Formula 1 competition.
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February 26, 2008 |
Appro
Announces Xtreme-X2 Supercomputer
Appro announced the launch of its second Xtreme-X
Supercomputer offering, the Appro Xtreme-X2 based
on dual-socket, Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors. |

November 15, 2007 |
Appro
Looks for its Supercomputer Groove
Appro, which recently signed a contract to build three
high-performance computer clusters for the U.S. Department
of Energy, is eying a larger portion of the commercial
supercomputer market for itself. |

November 12, 2007 |
Appro
Reveals New Xtreme-X Supercomupter Series
The Appro Xtreme-X Series represents a next-generation
platform based on scalable clusters that brings all
of the advantages of the company’s expertise
in high-performance computing to a cost-effective,
energy-efficient, and scalable supercomputer. |

June 27, 2007 |
Appro
Cluster Solution Ranked 19th Fastest Supercomputer
Appro, a leading provider of high-performance enterprise
computing systems announced today at the International
Supercomputing Conference, ISC’07 that “Atlas”
Appro XtremeServer Cluster at the Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory has been officially ranked the
19th fastest in the world according to the current
Top 500 list of supercomputers. |

April / 2007
by Logan Harbaugh |
Review: Appro
XtremeWorkstation mixes Opteron horsepower and superior
graphics at a nice price
This system would be exceptional as a CAD, imaging,
or video processing workstation. It would also be
perfect for running multiple virtualized operating
systems in a software development or testing environment,
even with a less powerful graphics card. The system
is remarkably quiet for the horsepower it provides,
and the case is heavy and well-built, with lots of
room for expansion as well as good cooling. |

November/05
by Jeffrey Burt |
Appro
Plans On-Demand Supercomputing for Petroleum Industry
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Systems maker Appro International Inc. is planning
an on-demand supercomputing service aimed at the oil
and gas industry. In addition, Appro last week unveiled
two new Opteron-based systems, the 1U and 3U XtremeServers. |

November/05 |
E&P Magazine
Supercomputing
Solutions for Energy Companies - Addressing
the increasing demand for supercomputing power in
the oil and gas industry, California-based Appro has
partnered with Houston-based CyrusOne to host high-performance
services at the latters flagship Tier 4 data
center. |

July/05 |
The American Oil &
Gas Reporter Magazine
Advances
Open Processing Capabilities ---
HPC Clusters Powering Oil and Gas markets
CEO's presenting the solution:
Jim Haig, Stagg Imaging and
Daniel Kim, Appro -Cluster Solutions |

July/05 |
Business Management Magazine
At
the cutting edge - New blade technology
is enabling next-generation clusters for HPC and
beyond.
Daniel Kim, CEO of Appro, leading high-performance
and enterprise computing solutions, talks to Business
Management about future computing trends and strategies
and how Appro is moving proactively to capitalize
on these trends. He also shares his vision for the
high-performance computing market, identifies potential
growth areas and discusses opportunities for Appro's
new Xtreme products.
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July/05 |
Appro
Powers Oil and Gas Imaging for Staag
As the price
of producing a barrel of oil continues to skyrocket
and demand continues to outpace supply, oil and
gas companies today are looking at geographical
resources they previously considered uneconomical
for extraction sites. As new technologies such as
seismic imaging make it easier for engineers to
map underground oil deposits, companies like Staag
Imaging are improving image accuracy and reducing
the cost of extraction through new computing algorithms.
To run their new Reverse Time Algorithm and deliver
a more accurate image to help companies reduce the
costs associated with the drilling of dry holes,
the company needed a more compute intense platform
and began exploring 64-bit technology.
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April/05 |
Business Management Magazine
HPC Sharpens Up - Business Management
Magazine
Grid computing is emerging as an important platform
for critical business applications. It is a winning
proposition for those that build a scalable and
flexible architecture, connect business goals to
computing processes and put the right technology
in place.
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November/04
by Tim Curns,
Editor of HPCWire |
APPRO
UNVEILS FIRST ENTERPRISE AMD OPTERON BLADE SERVER-
HPCWire
Enhanced performance is a key initiative for many
of the vendors exhibiting at SC2004 in Pittsburgh.
Appro, a developer of high-performance, density-managed
servers, storage subsystems, and high-end workstations
for the high-performance and enterprise computing
markets, is garnering some attention with the introduction
of its next generation blade product, XtremeBlade.
HPCwire's Tim Curns recently interviewed Daniel
Kim, Appro's CEO, about the company's upcoming product
announcement at SC2004, recent wins and future goals.
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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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