Appro Unleashes Xtreme-X2 Supercomputer for Better Reliability and System Performance
Posted on February 27, 2008
Filed Under News, PC HARDWARE, Silicon Valley News
MILPITAS, Calif., Feb. 26 /PRNewswire/ — Appro (http://www.appro.com),
a leading provider of high-performance enterprise computing systems, today
announced the launch of its second Xtreme-X(TM) Supercomputer offering, the
Appro Xtreme-X2 based on dual-socket, Quad-Core AMD Opteron(TM) processors.
This supercomputer series represents a next-generation platform based on
scalable clusters that brings all of the advantages of the company’s
expertise in high-performance computing (HPC) to a cost-effective, highly
available, scalable, and energy-efficient architecture.
“Appro’s new Xtreme-X Supercomputer Series is focused on addressing the
HPC cluster market which is growing by over 30% a year and already exceeds
60% of all HPC server sales. Appro is focusing its product design to
address key customer requirements including system management concerns and
price/performance on user applications in large-scale cluster
environments,” said Steve Conway, research vice president, Technical
Computing, IDC.
The Appro Xtreme-X2 offers exceptional value and impressive
price/performance with a significantly reduced TCO for HPC IT
organizations. It features a reliable and scalable architecture with 128
nodes/512 Quad-Core AMD Opteron(TM) processors and 4.5TF of computing power
in a single 44U equipment rack. It provides 4TB of memory, hot-swappable
blades, redundant cooling fans, and efficient “Power-Factor-Corrected”
redundant power supplies. Appro’s Xtreme-X2 Supercomputer offers a new
Directed Airflow(TM) cooling configuration designed to reduce datacenter
floor space by 30% while maximizing power and cooling efficiency. It also
features redundant (Dual Rail) Infiniband connections with low latency
Mellanox ConnectX host channel adapters as well as a dual-rail Ethernet
management fabric and network switches with all critical components being
easily accessible, hot-swappable, and redundant for reliability and
serviceability. For manageability of the system, the Appro Cluster
Engine(TM) Software has a carefully layered architecture offering a
complete lights-out management solution that comes pre-installed with every
system. This software suite offers a web-based management interface that is
easy-to-use, making it possible to control the Appro Xtreme-X system from
any location. The management modules include Fabric Management, Server
Management, Cluster Management and Resource Management. In addition, it
supports multiple networking topologies to achieve maximum reliability,
performance and high availability to include diskless configuration and
network failover.
“The Appro Xtreme-X2 combines the power of AMD 64 technology with a
well balanced high performance computing architecture,” said Jim Ballew,
CTO of Appro. “This combination delivers outstanding performance,
scalability, availability, and manageability based on a high-bandwidth and
low-latency infrastructure required for today’s high performance computing
and production system availability requirements.”
“AMD and Appro have long collaborated to deliver scalable,
high-bandwidth computing solutions that directly address the increasing
demands of our HPC customers,” said Patrick Patla, Director of Product
Management, Server/Workstation Division, AMD (NYSE: AMD). “Powered by
native Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors with AMD’s Direct Connect
Architecture for high-throughput responsiveness and scalability to improve
overall system efficiency, the new Appro Xtreme-X2 Supercomputer provides
reliable, energy-efficient computing with outstanding system-level
performance.”
In addition, Appro offers Professional Services delivering closed-loop
solution management, up-front consulting, pre-integration and testing with
pre-sales and post-sales support. Appro’s Xtreme-X Services supports Linux
operating environments, with configurations that provide exceptional
performance across a wide range of HPC applications such as aerospace and
automotive engineering simulations, petroleum discovery and production,
scientific visualization, seismic research, weather and environmental
sciences research, government research and defense.
Appro Xtreme-X2 Supercomputer will be available in March 2008 with
configurations starting at 64 nodes, with 128 Quad-Core AMD Opteron
processors per rack cabinet. Pricing information may vary by system
configuration. Please contact an Appro sales representative for more
information.
About Appro
Appro is a leading developer of innovative high-end workstations,
density-managed servers, clusters and supercomputers for the
high-performance and enterprise-computing markets. Appro accelerates
technical applications and business results through balanced architecture,
open standards and engineering expertise. Appro headquarters is in
Milpitas, California, with an R&D/manufacturing center in Asia and a sales
and service office in Houston, Texas. To learn more go to
http://www.appro.com
AMD, AMD Opteron and combinations thereof, are trademarks of Advanced
Micro Devices, Inc.
SOURCE Appro International, Inc
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