Milpitas, CA (PRWEB) October 12, 2011
Appro (http://www.appro.com), a leading provider of supercomputing solutions, today announced that the Appro Xtreme-X Supercomputer based on AMD Opteron processors was deployed by Los Alamos National Laboratorys Institutional Computing Program.
This deployment represents approximately $ 10 Million in production computing capability. The Xtreme-X Supercomputer will be used to address LANLs HPC needs for unclassified scientific computing and included complete factory-integrated and pre-tested systems with HPC professional services and support. For a quick video of a successful deployment, go to Appro HPC Community Blog at http://blog.appro.com/
The Appro Xtreme-X Supercomputer, named Mustang by the LANL Institutional Computing Program will provide high performance computing resources to a variety of activities at Los Alamos including ocean, wildfire, plasma physics, materials and nuclear energy. The Climate, Ocean, and Sea Ice Modeling (COSIM) project, a part of the climate modeling program in the DOEs Office of Science, is a partner with Institutional Computing in this acquisition.
The Appro Xtreme-X Supercomputer consists of two processors per node with a total of 38,400 cores, 353 Tflops based on the current 12-core AMD Opteron 6100 Series processor. It is designed to optimize floor space, power, and cooling requirements using air-cooling technology with platinum-rated power supplies and high-efficient fans, integrated with console management server capabilities. The system is interconnected with single-rail 4x Mellanox QDR IB (Quad Data Rate InfiniBand) and integrated with the Tri-Laboratory Common Computing Environment (CCE) software stack built from Red Hat Enterprise Linux distribution and additional 3rd party and open source software.
Scientific computing is a core capability of Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and the addition of the Appro Xtreme-X Supercomputer based on the AMD Opteron processor will provide a broad array of science-based prediction modeling,” said Andy White, Deputy Associate Director for Theory, Simulation and Computation. By combining observations, data, and theory with complex modeling, extremely fast computers and visualization capabilities we can achieve a better understanding of the physical world on all scales; from the cosmically large to the infinitesimally small.
“It is a pleasure to work with LANL on the Mustang supercomputing project. This purchase validates our unique architecture and HPC capabilities to address the challenges of the world’s fastest computers,” said Daniel Kim, CEO of Appro. “The Appro Xtreme-X Supercomputer based on the AMD Opteron processor offers fast data output and the highest levels of performance, scalability and manageability to help usher in a new era of science-based modeling prediction.”
AMD is excited to collaborate with Appro to deliver the performance scaling, memory bandwidth, floating point capabilities and energy efficiency that HPC workloads and customers around the world demand, said Patrick Patla, vice president and general manager, Server and Embedded divisions, AMD. Its an honor that the Los Alamos National Laboratory, a frontrunner in high performance computing, has chosen AMD as the foundation for this Appro supercomputing deployment aimed at improving climate change projections to better predict and understand our worlds dynamic climate.
About Appro
Appro is a leading developer of innovative supercomputing solutions. Appro is uniquely positioned to support High-Performance Computing (HPC) markets focusing on medium to large-scale deployments where lower total cost of ownership is essential. Appro accelerates technical applications and business results through outstanding price/performance, power efficient and fast time-to-market solutions based on the latest open standards technologies, innovative cluster tools and management software packaged with HPC professional services and support.
Appro supercomputing solutions enables scientists and engineers to use data-intensive, capacity, capability and hybrid computing for scientific research, data modeling, engineering simulations, and seismic visualization. Appros headquarters is located in Milpitas, CA with offices in Korea, Japan and Houston, TX. To receive automatic Appro news and feature stories, subscribe to Appro RSS feeds at http://www.appro.com, also visit us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/ApproSupercomputers or interact with us at http://twitter.com/approhpc
About Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos National Laboratory, a multidisciplinary research institution engaged in strategic science on behalf of national security, is operated by Los Alamos National Security, LLC, a team composed of Bechtel National, the University of California, The Babcock & Wilcox Company, and URS for the Department of Energys National Nuclear Security Administration.
Los Alamos enhances national security by ensuring the safety and reliability of the U.S. nuclear stockpile, developing technologies to reduce threats from weapons of mass destruction, and solving problems related to energy, environment, infrastructure, health, and global security concerns.
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