The IT Computational Challenge and HPC Technology Trends
HPC has now moved well beyond its origins in large government and university research sites. Today, HPC is indispensable for large commercial firms and is quickly moving into small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across a broad range of vertical markets. While clusters have revolutionized High Performance Computing, the standardization of operating systems has also made an impact. Linux and Windows have seen worldwide growth. Ethernet will continue to grow along with the size of the HPC market, but InfiniBand will grow at the expense of the other high-end proprietary interconnects. The push for performance at a lower cost has increased the demand for HPC. Still, HPC users are demanding ever-better reliability, availability, manageability, compatibility and power efficiency for their supercomputing installations.

Using Technology to address today's Computational Challenges
Appro provides technology leadership by being among the first-to-market leveraging commodity parts with new technologies offering our customers a performance edge over their competitors. Our supercomputing solutions are designed for reliability, flexibility, scalability while delivering a power-efficient architecture to address the HPC challenges and business needs at a lower TCO. Appro’s performance history with its Scalable Supercomputing Cluster Architecture includes large installations to both Government and Enterprise High Performance Computing customers.

Appro Advantages
**Balanced Architecture – Delivering a Competitive Edge
Appro’s performance-optimized products and solutions are reliable, manageable, and energy-efficient, and are designed to scale customer application performance for highly computationally intensive scientific research projects. Appro offers manageability, flexibility, and choice for customers to select high value products and solutions that meet their requirements at an attractive price/performance. Appro delivers balanced product architecture that improves bandwidth, latency, performance scalability, reliability and availability while reducing latency and bottlenecks to ensure customer application performance. Appro is focused on making sure that the managed solution delivers the processing, memory, and networking performance needed to accomplish the task quickly, reliably, and affordably. This provides a tremendous amount of added value for customers looking to accelerate their business results from an optimized infrastructure.

**Standard Technologies – Open High Performance Computing
Appro delivers innovative servers and solutions designed to work with existing IT environments. Appro's products are industry standards compliant, featuring multiple high performance network connectivity solutions, multiple I/O and disc options, with the choice of AMD or Intel® processors.

**Engineering Expertise – Designing Best in Class Supercomputers
Appro has deep engineering resources that design hardware solutions based upon customer’s requirements. Appro experience and expertise enable the company to design industry leading products and management solutions that allows customers to do more with less – lowering costs and complexity while increasing return on investment.

**System Management - Simplifying IT Administration
Appro’s goal is to simplify IT administration. Appro Cluster Engine™ Management Software is a carefully layered architecture composed with Network Management, Server Management, Cluster Management and Storage Management. In addition it supports multiple networking topologies to achieve maximum reliability, performance and high availability to include diskless configuration and network failover. Appro’s Cluster Engine is based on IPMI standards simplifying any compatibility issues.

**Technology Partners- Creating end-to-end Industry Technology Solutions
Together, Appro and its partners create end-to-end industry-leading solutions for our customers. Our partnership model gives us the ability to be flexible nd respond to your specific needs, regardless of whether you are a global enterprise or small business. Our partner relationships help us create out-of-the-box, innovative solutions for end-users who need to achieve high performance, scalability, and reliability at a very competitive cost.

Products and Services

Appro offers a variety of servers and cluster solutions ranging from power-efficient and performance optimized platforms. Appro's new rack mounted Hyper™ Cluster Series deliver leading-edge x 86 server technologies with outstanding price/performance, memory scalability and cooling efficiency.

The Appro Xtreme-X™ Supercomputing series is designed to scale out data centers for medium to large-scale enterprise and HPC deployments. The Xtreme-X delivers significantly reduced TCO in an energy-efficient (green) architecture and has a complete lights-out management system to meet the demands of high capacity computing and enterprise production system availability requirements.

Essential to the Xtreme-X series is the Appro Cluster Engine™ Management Software. This carefully layered architecture that offers a complete lights-out management solution that comes pre-installed with every system. This software suite is a total cluster management solution composed of Network Management, Server Management, Cluster Management and Storage Management. In addition it supports multiple networking topologies to achieve maximum reliability, performance and high availability to include diskless configuration and network failover.

Target Markets:
- Financial Services
- Government / Defense
- Education and Research
- Manufacturing
- Oil & Gas

Select Customer List:
Magma EDA, Chevron Texaco, Lawrence Livermore National Labs, Sandia National Labs, Penn State University, Raytheon, AMD, Rice University, ANSYS, Los Alamos National Labs, Connoco, Paradigm Geophysical, Naval Research Lab, Boeing, Intel, ING Renault Formula 1 Team, University of Tsukuba, Gear6 Solutions.

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