NEWSLETTER
Q2 2009
Welcome to Appro’s HPC Solutions Newsletter, the source you can rely on for the latest
leading-edge and innovative industry standards server, cluster and supercomputer
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Many IT departments in the HPC industry are feeling the rising pressure to deliver more performance and power while building an environmentally-friendly and open infrastructure that improves total cost of ownership. In this newsletter you will read about just a few of the ways in which Appro HPC Solutions is committed to improving customers applications performance while reducing energy bills and floor space in the data center. For information about Appro and our Go-Green solutions, please visit http://www.appro.com  
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Feature Products
Appro HyperPower GPU Performance Cluster
The HyperPower Cluster with Intel Xeon processors 5500 series, offers a scalable computing architecture that can execute thousands of concurrent parallel processing threads for mathematically intensive problems. Featuring Appro servers and NVIDIA® Tesla™ S1070 servers, this cluster supports up to 304 CPU cores and 18,240 GPU cores with 78TF single precision GPU performance. Learn More
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Appro Xtreme-X Supercomputer First to Offer Dual QDR InfiniBand On Board
Appro announced its updated Appro Xtreme-X™ Supercomputer based on Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series to be the first to offer two QDR 40Gb/sec InfiniBand ports with two independent QDR chips per server on board providing excellent network bandwidth and low latency to many HPC workloads that require higher performance for their applications. Read More

Appro Unveils High-Density HyperGreen Cluster Solution to Boost Power Efficiency and Performance in the Datacenter
The Appro HyperGreen™ Cluster solution featuring the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series is based on the Appro GreenBlade™ system solution building block offering a modular, flexible and energy-efficient cluster architecture that addresses today’s natural business growth from mid to large-scale high performance and high-density computing applications. Learn More


Appro Unleashes it new line of GPU Cluster Computing
Appro announced the launch of the new HyperPower™ Cluster Solution, combining a GPU 1U system based on NVIDIA® Tesla™ with an Appro server based on Intel® Xeon® processors, formerly code named Nehalem. The cluster offers a scalable computing architecture that includes interconnect switches for node-to-node communication, master node, and clustering software all integrated in a 42U standard rack configuration. Read More


San Diego Supercomputer Center Selects Appro as One of the First Vendors for 'Triton Resource'
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego has selected the first round of vendors for its new Triton Resource, an integrated, data-intensive computing system primarily designed to support UC San Diego and UC researchers. Triton is scheduled to enter production early this summer. Learn More


No More Excuses: Green Blades Let You Do More with Less

From a cost and ROI perspective green blades are the way forward. The Appro GreenBlade system surpasses the traditional 1U rack mounted server in terms of features and benefits while offering the same entry price point with 20% less power usage. Learn More
Videos / Webcast / White Papers/ Social Media Group Discussions




Webcast On Demand: Building a Cost-Effective HPC Cluster
Discover the benefits of the Intel Cluster Ready certified GreenBlade System based on Intel Xeon processors 5500 series and how it can reduce electricity costs required to power and cool servers by over 20% while being able to place up to 55% more blades compared to 1U rack-mount servers. Watch the On-Demand Webcast

White Paper: High Performance Computing in a Green and Modular Solution Building Block
Many IT departments in the HPC market are feeling the rising pressure to deliver more capacity computing and performance while trying to reduce the total cost
of ownership. This white paper discusses how an environmentally-friendly and open-standards HPC building block based computing system using flexible interconnect options helps address capacity computing needs. Download the White Paper

Videos: Appro and Intel Cluster Ready: Extreme Performance, Extreme Scalability

Find out how Appro is delivering a complete High Performance Computing solution for the customer, integrating both hardware and software at a reasonable price while lowering the total cost of ownership. Watch the Video

HPC Group - Discussions

HPC and Cloud Computing - What it the Trend in your Group?
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FPGAs Extended Memory- Do they improve performance of Data Visualization?
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Event Schedule
ISC 2009
CCH Congress Center Hamburg
Hamburg, Germany
June 23 - 25, 2009


SEG 2009

George R. Brown Convention Center
Houston, Texas
October 25 - 28, 2009
About Appro
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