General Information

Appro Workstation Datasheet
Appro Product Guide Brochure

Product Review


February/08 by David Cohn
--> New Super Quad-Core for Compute-Intensive Applications



April/07 by Logan Harbaugh
--> XtremeWorkstation mixes Opteron horsepower and superior graphics at a nice price



April/06 - Open-Magazine
by Jack Fegreus
Appro's new XtremeServers are poised to shakeup high-end datacenters and HPC

November/05
by Jennifer Mears
Systems vendor Appro targets HPC with Opteron servers

2005 Product of the Year Award

Appro XtremeServers get Supercomputing Online 2005 Product Of the Year Award
The Product of the Year Awards Program provides IT professionals recommended innovative products to evaluate for addressing data-intensive computing challenges. The products were judged by the editors in conjunction with a team of high-performance computing experts. The products were evaluated based on five criteria: innovation, performance, value, ease of use and manageability, ease of integration into existing environments, and functionality. For more information, visit http://www.supercomputingonline.com

AMD Opteron™ Processor

AMD Opteron Quad-Core Advantages
AMD Opteron up-to-date Benchmarks
AMD Opteron™ Press Room
AMD Opteron™ Press Release
AMD Opteron - quick reference guide
Competitive Comparisons
Processor Product Information
Processor Performance Benchmark Links and more
Utilities, Updates & Chipset Drivers

Mellanox Technologies - Infiniband

Mellanox delivers field-proven interconnect solutions for communications, storage and compute clustering that are changing the shape of both business and technical computing. As the leader of industry-standard, InfiniBand-based silicon and system solutions, Mellanox provides a worry-free interconnect fabric for data centers and technical compute clusters which demand increased efficiency and improved return on investment. Learn More

Level5 Networks, Inc. - Gigabit Ethernet EtherFabric™

Level 5 Networks®, Inc. meets the performance challenge of high performance computing with a solution that is 100% compliant with the existing Ethernet/TCP/IP standards and Sockets API. Delivering just a few microseconds of latency and returning triple the CPU cycles back to the application, Level 5 Networks provides a solution that is unequaled in price/performance that is completely compatible with your existing Ethernet network today.

Product Brief
Application Performance Brief

PathScale Compiler

PathScale's goal is to make it easier to develop and deploy 64-bit applications into clustered environments. PathScale has developed the industry's highest-performance C, C++, and Fortran 9X compilers for 64-bit Linux-based computer systems. The PathScale EKOPath Compiler Suite has been optimized for both the AMD64 and EM64T architectures and has the world's most sophisticated optimization infrastructure. Unlike other compilers, the PathScale EKOPath Compiler Suite provides superior performance across both floating-point and integer-intensive applications.

PathScale EKO Compiler Suite 30-day Trial Evaluation Program
PathScale Product Datasheet