Appro delivers power-efficient and performance-optimized scalable supercomputing solutions based on CPU and GPU’s providing many-/multi-core systems within large clusters that enable organizations to gain competitive advantage by using innovative products and services while driving cost efficiencies and minimizing risks. Our products and solutions combine hardware, software, services and partnerships to enable greater supercomputing performance in various industries to include government and education to solve the most demanding computational problems.

	Government / Defense Government and research agencies face various challenges from coping with rapidly changing military/security situations to enabling scientists to maximize their productivity and generate breakthrough science results. Government agencies have been compelled to place an even stronger emphasis in improving and developing new technologies to remain competitive in this fast moving world. Many government lab research groups are working closely with Appro to deliver scalable clusters and supercomputers based on Appro’s key success stories with Lawrence Livermore National Labs and the recent Tri-Labs Capacity Cluster project implemented for three national laboratories: Lawrence Livermore, Sandia and Los Alamos.   Lockeed Martin DoD Program at ARL Lockheed Martin Program at 5 DoD Sites Tri-Labs TLCC2 Project Tri-Labs TLCC07 Project

	Education Professors, researchers, and graduate students were among the first to use cluster computing. Universities take an active role in promoting efforts to improve both advanced education and academic research fields to include Information Mathematics and Modeling, Intelligent Software, Software System, Computer Architecture, Media Engineering and science research projects. Appro clusters and supercomputers deliver the performance and fast results that the University compute science centers need to support a growing portfolio for computational science and engineering research education.   SDSC Gordon Supercomputer SDSC Trestles Supercomputer Univ. of Tsukuba 800TFLOP System Univ. of Tsukuba's 95TFLOP System

	Weather Whether it's predicting hurricane tracks, the start of monsoon season, or research into climate change, we all have a stake in knowing what kind of weather to expect today, tomorrow, and even years from now. Supercomputers play a vital role in mission-critical operational weather forecasting that requires massive amounts of data to be gathered from a wide variety of sources and then put into weather modeling programs to get an actual forecast. This accurate and timely information produced by supercomputers can save lives by giving people enough time to prepare for severe weather.   LANL Supercomputer Deployment Video Appro Xtreme-X Supercomputer

	Manufacturing The Manufacturing Industry produces some of the most sophisticated, highly-engineered systems in the world today while having the need to meet exacting standards for performance and safety. However, they must also be innovative and affordable in order to succeed. Today, scientists who work in the manufacturing industries use clusters and supercomputers for their compute intensive applications such as computer-aided engineering (CAE) software to accurately simulate aerodynamics, engine performance and other mission critical behavior as well as computational fluid dynamics (CFD).   Renault F1 Team Video Testimonial     Appro Xtreme-X Supercomputer

	Energy Seismic analysis is the science of using shock waves (explosions, vibrations) for oil exploration. The amounts of raw data needed to process seismic analysis create a huge demand for computing power. In addition, the 3D visualization analysis of the seismic data has grown a lot in recent years moving visualization centers from the desktop to GPU clusters. With the need of performance and memory capacities, Appro’s clusters and supercomputers are ideal architectures combined with the latest CPU and GPU technologies to help customers process large amounts of data while reducing costs and speeding time to production.   LANL's Mustang Supercomputer DOE's Energy Research at INL

	Financial Analysis Clusters are increasingly being viewed as the new architecture of the data center. Built on industry standard technologies, today’s blade or 1U x86-based clusters are powering complex data analysis and real-world simulations while increasing user productivity and reducing operational costs. Appro clusters and supercomputing solutions help small to large companies in the financial industry to successfully compute complex data analysis and financial simulations that help predict performance and extend their competitive reach both to retain and expand their customer base.   Case Study - ACTIV Financial Appro Xtreme-X Supercomputer