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Anthony Kenisky, Vice President of Sales

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APPRO CORPORATE PRESENTATION

:: Appro at a glance

• Leading developer of high performance servers, clusters and supercomputer Solutions

– Established in 1991

– Headquartered in Milpitas, CA

– Global Sales presence with International Channel Partners

– Sales and Services in EMEA via Strategic Alliance with NEC

– Regional Sales and Service Office in Houston, Texas

– R&D and manufacturing in Korea

– Integrated and tested solutions in the Bay Area, CA

• Target Markets– Government / Defense

– Education and Research

– Manufacturing

– Oil & Gas– Financial services

Company Overview


Competitive Advantages:: Technology Differentiation

No need for LWK (Light-Weight-Kernel) which allows system to run a wider range of commercial applications

Diskless Operation withStd Linux OS support

ACE™ Cluster Management Software to simplify management of large, complex systems

Complete Cluster Management

System can be partitioned to support multiple operating environments to provide flexibility in 3rd party applications support

Dynamic Virtual ClusterOperation

Innovative air cooling system architecture which supports very dense systems and lowers facility cooling costs

Packaging

Scalable: single-rail or dual-rail, 3D Torus or Fat Tree Topologies, providing superior network communications performanceFlexible: support for DDR or QDR single/dual rail IB configurations

Network CommunicationsPerformance


HyperPower™ Clusters

HyperGreen™ Clusters

Xtreme-X™ SuperComputer

:: Diverse Product Line

Appro Product Portfolio

Performance and availability for Mid to Large-Sized Deployments

Flexibility and Choice for Small to Mid-Sized Deployments


:: Small to Mid-Size Deployments

Appro Cluster Solutions

Appro HyperGreen™ ClusterEnergy Efficient Cluster

Appro HyperPower™ ClusterGPU, Performance Optimized Clusters

• Offers the latest CPU and GPU computing technologies

• Based on an open architecture with standard 19” rack support

• Price/Performance per watt, density, reliability and flexibility

• Offers a variety of configurations and Open cluster management options

• Tested and pre-integrated solution deployed as a complete package

• HPC professional services and support available

• Offers the latest CPU and GPU computing technologies

• Based on an open architecture with standard 19” rack support

• Price/Performance per watt, density, reliability and flexibility

• Offers a variety of configurations and Open cluster management options

• Tested and pre-integrated solution deployed as a complete package

• HPC professional services and support available

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:: Power-Efficient Clusters

HyperGreen™ Cluster

• Up to 80 DP GreenBlades™/640 cores per 42U Rack

• Up to 5.12TB of system memory

• Up to 80TB of local storage

• Fully populated rack weighs ~1,749 lbs

• Rack-level power consumption is ~16kW to 32kW

• 20% power reduction per node compared to 1U servers

• Supports 20 Gb/s DDR and 40 Gb/s QDR interconnect options

• Standards IPMI or Appro BladeDome remote server mgmt

• Choice of open software solutions using Rocks+ and MOAB

• Ideal for small to mid-size HPC and high-density computing

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HyperGreen™ Cluster 1

:: Power-Efficient Clusters


Appro HyperPower™ Cluster

• Supports 304 CPU/18,240 GPU cores in a standard 42U rack

• Up to 78TF single precision GPU performance

• Supercomputing performance at a lower power, lower cost and fewer systems than standard CPU-only clusters

• Based on an open architecture delivering performance and scalability in a dense cluster computing

• Pre-integrated solution deployed as a turn-key solution

• Choice of a variety of configuration options

• HPC professional services and support options

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:: Hybrid CPU/GPU Performance Optimized Clusters


GPU Computing Cluster

# of Racks 1 2 4 8 12

# of CPU Cores 304 608 1,216 2,464 3,648

# of GPU Cores 18,240 36,480 72,960 145,920 218,880

Max Memory Capacity 3.646TB 7.296TB 14.592TB 29.184TB 43,776TB

GPU Peak Single Precision 78.66TF 156.18TF 312.36TF 624.72TF 937.08TF

GPU Peak Double Precision 6.56TF 13.12TF 26.24TF 52.48TF 78.72TF

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Appro HyperPower™ Cluster 2

:: Hybrid CPU/GPU Performance Optimized Clusters


Product Roadmap:

The Appro Next Generation GPU supercomputing solution will be announced at SC09

Next Generation Solutions


Xtreme-X™ SuperComputer

:: 3DTaurus and Fat Tree Architecture

Appro Product Portfolio

Performance and availability for Mid to Large-Sized Deployments


:: Mid to Large-Sized Deployments

Xtreme-X™ Supercomputer

Management NetworkGbE Switch (Dual Rail)

36-port QDR Infiniband Switch

16 Compute nodes’ Subrack

• Balanced Architecture (CPU, Memory, Network)

• Scalability (SW & Network)

• Reliability (Real RAS: Network, Node, SW)

• Facilities (30% less space, 28% less power)

• 512 cores based nodes/Rack

• Peak Performance/Rack: 6.1TF

• Memory Capacity/Rack: 1.5TB

• Single or Dual Rail Management Network

• Efficient Cooling Architecture : 22 KW/Rack

• Redundant PSU 90% Efficiency, 5+1, PFC

• Appro Cluster Engine™ Management Software

•Scales up to 1000TF of computing power

• Supports multiple interconnect topologies

Performance and Availability


:: Path to PetaFLOP Computing

Appro Xtreme-X Supercomputer - Modular Scalable Performance Number of Racks 1 2 8 48 96 192

Number of Processors 128 256 1024 5,952 11,904 23,808

Number of Cores 512 1,024 4096 23,808 47,616 95,232

Peak Performance 6TF/s 12TF/s 49TF/s 279TF/s 558TF/s 1.1PF/s

Memory Capacity 1.5TB 3TB 12TB 72TB 143TB 286TB

Memory BW Ration GB/s per GF/s - 0.68GB/s per GF/s Memory Capacity Ratio GB per GF/s - 0.26GB per GF/s

IO Fabric Interconnect – Single or Dual-Rail QDR IO BW Ratio GB/sec per GF/s - 0.17GB/s per GF/s

Usable Node-Node BW GB/s - 6.4GB/s Node-Node Latency - <2us

Performance Numbers are Based on 2.93GHz Intel Nehalem Processors and Includes only Compute Nodes

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• Complete Lights-out Cluster Management Suite

• Diskless operation with standard Linux distribution

– No need for local disk which reduces cost and increases system reliability

• Integrated cluster management SW suite

– Tighter integration results in trouble-free operation

• Active-active redundancy with easy-to-use interface

– To support commercial deployment requirementsMiddleware-HooksMiddleware-Hooks

Job SchedulingJob Scheduling

IB-Subnet ManagerIB-Subnet Manager

Virtual Cluster ManagerVirtual Cluster Manager

Instant SW ProvisioningInstant SW Provisioning

3D Torus Network Topology Support3D Torus Network Topology Support

Dual Rail NetworksDual Rail Networks

Stateless OperationStateless Operation

Remote Lights out ManagementRemote Lights out Management

Standard Linux OS SupportStandard Linux OS Support

Failover & RecoveryFailover & Recovery

:: ACE™ Cluster Management SW Xtreme-X™ Supercomputer


Renault F1 Racing Team

Delivered 38TFs Xtreme-X

Supercomputer for Virtual Wind tunnel

project

Customer Quote “Appro not only offered

us a cost effective solution but they also improved our required technical specification

through better reliability, greater fault

tolerance and redundancy as well as more flexibility with regards to system

scalability.”

Bob Bell,Technical Director, ING

Renault F1 Team

:: Recent Design Deployment



Appro Next Generation of Xtreme-X Supercomputer will offer 3 different configurations:

• A. Xtreme-X EL (Entry level) Single Rail configuration, Fat-Tree Architecture with ACE SW Management features

• B. Xtreme-X MR (Mid-Range) – Dual Rail Configuration, Fat-Tree Architecture with ACE Management features

• C. Xtreme-X HE (High-End) - Dual Rail configuration, 3DTorus Architecture with ACE Management features


Product Roadmap:

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Anthony Kenisky, Vice President of Sales

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