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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 [email protected]. Company Overview. :: Corporate Snapshot. Established in 1991 - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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IDC HPC User Forum April 14th, 2008
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 CA 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
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:: Corporate Snapshot
Company Overview
• 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
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2001Appro 1124
• Anandtech calls it “The Perfect Server”
• Linux Journal Web Server of the Year
2003 – 2004Appro HyperBlade Cluster
• eWeek finalist – BestServer Hardware
• ClusterWorld “Best Clustering Solution”
2005Appro XtremeBlade
• LinuxWorld Expo – Best Cluster Solution
2006Appro XtremeServer
• SuperComputingOnline – Product of the Year
Product ExcellenceProduct Excellence
2007 Appro XtremeCluster
• Most Innovative Cluster Technology Award
• SuperComputingOnline – Product of the Year
:: History of Product Excellence
Company Overview
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:: Our Presence in x86 Server Market
Company Overview
Source: IDC WW Quarterly PC Tracker
Top 10 Vendors, USA Total x86 Server Shipments, 3Q 2007 Preliminary Data
UNIT SHIPMENTS 2007
VENDOR RANK
Dell 1
HP 2
IBM 3
Rackable Systems 4
Sun Microsystems 5
Apple 6
Appro 7
Gateway 8
NCR 9
Fujitsu/Fujitsu Siemens 10
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Rmax Sum %
1 IBM 3134125 45.0%
2 HP 1663699 23.9%
3 Cray 512304 7.4%
4 SGI 507188 7.3%
5 Dell 487618 7.0%
6 Linux Networx 114939 1.6%
7 Bull SA 94970 1.4%
8 Appro 90421 1.3%
9 NEC/Sun 56430 0.8%
10 NEC 44783 0.6%
Vendors by Performance – November 2007
:: Our Presence in HPC
Company Overview
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Recent InstallationsRecent Installations
September 2006NOAA Cluster
• 1,424 processors
• 2.8TB System Memory
• 15 TFlops
October 2006LLNL Rhea Cluster
• 4,608 processors
• 9.2TB System Memory
• 22 Tflops
November 2006LLNL Atlas Cluster
• 9,216 processors
• 18.4TB System Memory
• 44 TFlops
June 2007LLNL Minos Cluster
• 6,912 processors
• 13.8TB System Memory
• 33 TFlops
:: Our Experience
Company Overview
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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
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
Appro XtremeClusters Up to 6TF per rack Integrated high-speed Interconnect Fabric Integrated management Network High Availability Configurations Appro Cluster Management Solution
Appro XtremeClusters Up to 6TF per rack Integrated high-speed Interconnect Fabric Integrated management Network High Availability Configurations Appro Cluster Management Solution
Next Generation ServersFront Access Server Platform
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Current Products38TF AMD Barcelona Based System in UK
512 2.3GHz AMD Quad Core4TB 667MHz DDR2 MemoryDisklessDual-Rail DDR Fat-TreeACE ManagementRedundant ManagementPanasas Global Parallel FSVisualization System 24 X nVidia FX5600Front End Quad Socket Quad Core 256GB 667Mhz DDR2
Redundant Power and Cooling
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Current Products95TF AMD Barcelona Based System in Japan
Thank you !!Thank you !!
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