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From the early days monolithic mainframes, through the vector supercomputers era and massively parallel systems era, LLNL has been home to many firsts in supercomputing and has been a driving force behind such development. While LLNL still has some of the largest supercomputers in existence like BlueGene/L and Purple, they realized the need to also field scalable compute resources comprised of hundreds and sometimes thousands of clustered commodity compute nodes/servers interconnected with high-performance commodity interconnects running Linux operating system and cluster tools. These Linux clusters can be created in much less time, built from standard industry servers, and assembled for significantly fewer dollars per peak teraFLOP/s. Through high speed interconnects, compute nodes can be clustered together to form a new generation of scalable and highly flexible supercomputers able to meet LLNL’s programmatic need for additional, cost effective, large-scale simulation capacity. To retrieve this case study, click here. 2. The Datacenter Behind Gossamer-Threads Hosting Services Powered by Appro Servers In 1995 Gossamer Threads launched with a focus on creating quality web applications. As years passed, Gossamer Threads experienced a fair share of hosting providers running their applications, most of which fell short of their expectations and needs. Realizing that their customers deserved more, Gossamer Threads expanded their business to include hosting services. Based on their extensive knowledge and expertise of web software, and their experience with many different hosting platforms, Gossamer Threads developed a high quality, top performance, and secure solution so that clients could host websites in a fast, scalable and reliable environment. No longer did clients have to worry about the technical side of things; Gossamer Threads would take care of that, so they could focus on running their business. “The first order of business was to choose a server vendor, one that would not lock us in due to proprietary hardware and components but deliver the flexibility we would need to handle the growth we anticipated,” said Alex Krohn, Founder. “Our requirements were pretty straight forward; we needed a solution that would be very reliable, flexible, scalable and cost effective. It had to be built upon standard industry components and take cost of ownership into account. We wanted a server solution that would have a long life span and be simple to scale and cluster. Our market differentiator had to be the reliability and performance of our hosting solution.” To retrieve this case study, click here. 3.
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Flow-Modeling Simulations ANSYS turned to Appro to supply state-of-the-art cluster servers to support the project. Appro supplied a dynamic scalable HPC cluster of 40 1U, 2-socket Appro XtremeServers, adding up to 160 cores of AMD Opteron processors. To retrieve this case study, click here. Appro accelerates technical applications and business results unlocking
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