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IDC HPC User Forum April 14 th , 2008

IDC HPC User Forum April 14 th , 2008. A P P R O I N T E R N A T I O N A L I N C. Steve Lyness Vice President, HPC Solutions Engineering slyness@appro.com. Company Overview. :: Corporate Snapshot. Established in 1991

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IDC HPC User Forum April 14 th , 2008

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  1. IDC HPC User Forum April 14th, 2008 A P P R O I N T E R N A T I O N A L I N C Steve Lyness Vice President, HPC Solutions Engineering slyness@appro.com

  2. Company Overview :: Corporate Snapshot • Established in 1991 • Headquartered in Milpitas, CA (Silicon Valley),Sales & Service office in Houston, TX • Total Solution provider specializing in High Performance Computing systems for enterprise and government • Oil and Gas • Electronic Design Automation • Financial Services • Government/ Defense • Manufacturing • Bio-Informatics

  3. Company Overview :: History of Product Excellence 2001 Appro 1124 • Anandtech calls it “The Perfect Server” • Linux Journal Web Server of the Year 2006 Appro XtremeServer • SuperComputingOnline – Product of the Year 2005 Appro XtremeBlade • LinuxWorld Expo – Best Cluster Solution Product Excellence • 2007 Appro XtremeCluster • Most Innovative Cluster Technology Award • SuperComputingOnline – Product of the Year 2003 – 2004 Appro HyperBlade Cluster • eWeek finalist – BestServer Hardware • ClusterWorld “Best Clustering Solution”

  4. Company Overview :: Our Presence in x86 Server Market Source: IDC WW Quarterly PC Tracker

  5. Company Overview :: Our Presence in HPC Vendors by Performance – November 2007

  6. Company Overview :: Our Experience September 2006 NOAA Cluster • 1,424 processors • 2.8TB System Memory • 15 TFlops November 2006 LLNL Atlas Cluster • 9,216 processors • 18.4TB System Memory • 44 TFlops Recent Installations October 2006 LLNL Rhea Cluster • 4,608 processors • 9.2TB System Memory • 22 Tflops June 2007 LLNL Minos Cluster • 6,912 processors • 13.8TB System Memory • 33 TFlops

  7. Next Generation ServersFront Access Server Platform Appro XtremeClusters • Up to 6TF per rack • Integrated high-speed Interconnect Fabric • Integrated management Network • High Availability Configurations • Appro Cluster Management Solution • 44U Equipment Rack • Fat-Tree, 2D, or 3D Interconnect Fabrics • Switching Integrated in the Racks • Support Dual or Quad Socket Nodes • Support AMD or Intel architecture • Equipment Rack = 14.4KW to 20KW • Shared, Redundant Power Supplies • Power Supplies rated at 90+% efficiency • Directed Airflow for maximum equipment cooling efficiency

  8. Current Products 38TF AMD Barcelona Based System in UK 512 2.3GHz AMD Quad Core 4TB 667MHz DDR2 Memory Diskless Dual-Rail DDR Fat-Tree ACE Management Redundant Management Panasas Global Parallel FS Visualization System 24 X nVidia FX5600 Front End Quad Socket Quad Core 256GB 667Mhz DDR2 Redundant Power and Cooling

  9. Current Products 95TF AMD Barcelona Based System in Japan

  10. Thank you !! A P P R O I N T E R N A T I O N A L I N C

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