MILPITAS, Calif., Nov. 12 CA-Appro-Deployment
MILPITAS, Calif., Nov. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Appro (http://www.appro.com), a
leading provider of supercomputing solutions, today announces the final
deployment of Appro Supercomputing Clusters to Advanced Simulation and
Computing (ASC) that integrates the work of the three National Nuclear
Security Administration (NNSA) Defense Programs laboratories: Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory and Sandia
National Laboratories. This procurement was awarded to Appro last year for the
TLCC07 program.
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Appro deployed to the three national laboratories 21 Scalable Units (SU)
-- 438 TFLOP/s, Linux high performance clusters and an additional 200 TFLOP/s
of 10 SUs included as options. The Appro scalable clusters are being used
principally to provide needed computational support to NNSA's nuclear weapons
programs, notably Stockpile Stewardship -- the program to ensure the safety,
security and reliability of the nation's nuclear deterrent without nuclear
testing. The additional 200 TFLOP/s capacity computing was needed for efforts
as completion of the National Ignition Facility laser fusion project; and the
program to extend the life of existing weapons in the stockpile.
"The ability to provide a SU in multiple scalable clusters to all three
national Lab sites with a 30-50% lower TCO was of great value to NNSA's effort
to apply high performance computing to time-urgent national security
challenges," said Mark Seager, ICCD ADH for Advanced Technology, Lawrence
Livermore National Lab. "We needed a partner to bring strong technical skills
to the table including an understanding of the HPC ecosystem as well as the
project management skills necessary to work with a large number of component
suppliers. Fielding 31 SUs (4,464 compute nodes with an aggregate performance
of 620 TFLOP/s) at three Tri-Lab sites (LLNL, LANL, SNL) was a daunting
project challenge that, in this case, was very well executed."
"Lawrence Livermore Labs alone has up to 495 TFLOP/s of computing power
spread over eighteen x86 Linux clusters for its scientific user research base.
We are proud to say that 480 TFLOP/s of the eleven systems installed at LLNL
are Appro supercomputing clusters representing the largest installed base of
Linux Clusters in their site. We are also proud to be able to provide 638
TFLOP/s of computing power to the Three National Labs as a result of this
contract. This is a very big accomplishment for Appro"; said John Lee, VP of
Advanced Technology Solutions of Appro.
"Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors offer outstanding scalability,
especially in four socket systems. The benefits of Direct Connect
Architecture -- an integrated memory controller combined with
HyperTransport(TM) technology delivered the node memory bandwidth performance
that was critical to meet the three National Labs specification," said David
Rich, director of High Performance Computing, AMD.
About Appro
Appro is a leading developer of innovative, high-performance
supercomputing solutions. Appro accelerates technical applications and
business results through balanced architecture, open standards and engineering
expertise. Appro headquarters is in Milpitas, CA with a sales and service
office in Houston, TX. To learn more go to http://www.appro.com
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