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Appro Looks for its Supercomputer Groove
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Appro’s CTO, Jim Ballew speaks on the new Xtreme-X Supercomputer at SC07
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Appro Announces Support for New Dual-Core/Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor 5200 and 5400 Series
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Welcome to Appro HPC Solutions, an e-Newsletter you can rely on for the latest about Appro's products, solutions, technology partnerships, recent announcements, promotions and more. We hope that this information will help you make well-informed purchasing decisions. Comments or suggestions? Let us hear from you.

Featuring the Appro Xtreme-X1 Supercomputer

The Appro Xtreme-X1 offers a high value and attractive price/performance package with a significantly reduced TCO for HPC IT organizations. It features a reliable and scalable architecture with 128 nodes/512 Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processors and 6TF of computing power in a single 42U equipment rack. It offers hot-swappable blades, redundant cooling fans, and efficient “Power-Factor-Corrected” power supplies. Appro’s Xtreme-X1 Supercomputer also features a new Directed Airflow™ cooling configuration designed to reduce datacenter floor space by 30% while maximizing power and cooling efficiency. In addition, it features redundant (Dual Rail) Infiniband connections with low latency Mellanox ConnectX host channel adapters as well as Ethernet management fabric and network switches with all critical components being easily accessible, hot-swappable, and redundant for reliability and serviceability. The Appro Xtreme-X1 Supercomputer is ideal for demanding applications that require higher reliability and better system management in HPC. To learn more, click here

White Papers, Webcast and Solution Brief

1. IDC White Paper - Appro's Xtreme-X Supercomputer Series: Designed for High Value and Attractive Price/Performance

Since 2002, the dramatic growth of the global market for high-performance computing (HPC) servers has been driven almost exclusively by Linux clusters, which in 2006 accounted for more than half of this $10 billion market. IDC expects Linux clusters to reach 70% to 80% of this growing market in coming years. The HPC industry is in the midst of important technology trends that requires important considerations for product design. These trends reflect the user community's desire for better reliability, availability, flexibility, compatibility, power efficiency, as well as price per performance and TCO.

Analyst Firm IDC examines the Appro Xtreme-X1 Supercomputer based on Intel Xeon Processors and Appro's Management System in relation to the needs of HPC and Commercial markets. In addtion, IDC provides good information about technology trends that are experiencing growth in adoption such as blade servers, Intel MulticoreTechnologies, InfiniBand interconnect fabric and Linux.
To retrieve your free white paper, click here.

2. Enabling Low-TCO Supercomputers through Scalable Units

The quest for greater performance at lower costs has propelled clusters to the forefront of high-performance computing. Still, HPC users are demanding continually better reliability, availability, flexibility, compatibility, power efficiency – and of course price/performance. Responding to these demands, Appro has introduced the Appro Xtreme-X(TM) Supercomputing Series, which takes advantage of the concept of "Scalable Units" to create next-generation clusters with supercomputer performance.

"High-performance clustering technologies are maturing, and scalability and availability are becoming crucial elements for critical business functions in HPC organizations," says Jim Ballew, Appro's CTO. "In designing our new Xtreme-X Supercomputer Series, Appro has taken the cluster concept to the next plane of both performance and cost advantages." To read this full interview, click here.

3. Petascale -High Performance Computing for Oil and Gas Market

This IT Executive Briefing is based on the Appro’s Executive IT Geoscience’s Seminar held October 2006, in New Orleans. This document discusses the Analytical Needs of Exploration Geophysics. It also discusses how to address those needs by applying High Performance computing capabilities to the particular issues of seismic processing, enhanced oil recovery (EOR), and large, complex reservoirs.
Intel®, along with Appro, LLNL, Schlumberger, Landmark, Paradigm, and a host of other companies, works with a client company's proprietary software to increase processing power, memory capacity and bandwidth capabilities to address these major issues in exploration geophysics. To retrieve this white paper, click here

Why Appro

Appro accelerates technical applications and business results unlocking the value of IT for the high-performance and enterprise computing markets through differentiated performance, balanced architecture, open standards and engineering expertise. Appro is a leading developer of innovative, high-performance, density-managed servers, cluster-solutions, storage subsystems, and high-end workstations for the enterprise high-performance computing markets. Learn more about Appro or
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