wikipedia s notability guidelines for companies and organizations . please help to establish notability by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond its mere trivial mention . if notability can not be established the article is likely to be merged redirected or deleted . find sources appro news newspapers books scholar jstor free images july 2012 learn how and when to remove this template message appro international inc. industry high performance computing founded 1991 2012 . acquired by cray inc. november 2012 founder daniel kim products supercomputers number of employees 90 website appro.com appro was a developer of supercomputing supporting high performance computing hpc markets focused on medium to large scale deployments . appro was based in milpitas ca with a computing center in houston texas and a manufacturing and support subsidiary in korea and japan . 1 cray inc. purchased appro in november 2012 . contents 1 company history 2 customers and supercomputing projects 3 awards and honors 4 references 5 external links company history edit appro was founded in 1991 by president and ceo daniel kim . mr. kim expanded the company in the us market as oem high performance rackmount computer systems manufacturer . appro quickly became one of the fastest growing rackmount computer companies . in 2002 appro produced and marketed its own line of branded high density servers for the high performance and internet computing markets in a transition from oem to appro branded products . in 2005 appro expanded manufacturing engineering and product development teams in south korea and introduced its first blade cluster the appro hyperblade server cluster solution and the appro 1142h the first 1u 4 processor server available to the hpc market . in 2006 appro launched its first flagship product the xtreme x supercomputer based on x86 processors . the system combines high performance and high availability in a balanced architecture for scaling out data centers from medium to large sized systems . the supercomputer features the appro cluster engine ace management software a complete lights out remote management system . in 2008 and 2009 appro announced the appro hyperpower cluster a hybrid cpu gpu computing based on nvidia tesla and nvidia cuda software technology and including professional services and cluster management options . appro also launched the appro greenblade system . in 2011 appro revealed the next generation xtreme x supercomputer . 2 the system featured the latest processing and accelerator technologies increased performance watt multiple high performance network connectivity i o and disk options along with specialized professional services . the system addressed four critical hpc workloads capacity hybrid data intensive and capability computing . the reinvented system won several major supercomputing contracts for customers such as san diego supercomputer center lockheed martin department of defense nnsa department of energy university of tsukuba and lawrence livermore sandia los alamos national laboratories . on november 9 2012 cray inc. announced plans to acquire appro for 21.8 million to strengthen the company s hpc cluster system offerings . 3 on november 21 2012 cray announced it had completed the acquisition of appro international inc. 4 customers and supercomputing projects edit national oceanic and atmospheric administration noaa 113tf supercomputer for noaa s hurricane forecast improvement project hfip 2012 5 virginia tech advanced research computing arc blue ridge supercomputer 2011 featuring intel xeon phi coprocessors kyoto university 210tf supercomputer 2011 for the academic center for computing and media studies accms at kyoto university san diego supercomputer center sdsc 35m iops gordon supercomputer 2011 6 100tf trestles 2010 and dash 2009 . tlcc projects for the nnsa tri lab linux capacity cluster tlcc2 2011 and tlcc07 2007 at lawrence livermore sandia and los alamos national laboratories 7 los alamos national laboratory 353tf mustang supercomputer 2011 8 university of tsukuba 802tf ha pacs supercomputer 2011 9 and 95tf supercomputer 2009 at the center for computational sciences lockheed martin 147.5 tf supercomputer in support of the dod high performance computing modernization program hpcmp 10 sandia national laboratory first of a kind intel mic testbed experimental cluster 2011 idaho national laboratory fission supercomputer 2011 lawrence livermore national laboratory hyperion project 2010 110tf graph supercomputer 2009 and 222tf peloton project consisting of rhea zeus minos and atlas clusters 2007 renault formula 1 team 38tf supercomputer delivered to the computational fluid dynamics center in the uk 2009 awards and honors edit as of november 2012 an appro xtreme x supercomputer beacon tops the current green500 list . 11 beacon is deployed by nics of the university of tennessee and is actually a greenblade gb824m xeon e5 2670 based eight cores 8c 2.6 ghz infiniband fdr intel xeon phi 5110p computer . 12 hpcwire editors choice award 2012 appro xtreme x supercomputer was awarded best hpc cluster solution and best hpc storage product or technology for the collaborative project with sdsc for its data oasis storage system running on the gordon supercomputer . 13 top500 november 2012 appro was ranked 4 vendor on the top500 list 14 with 24 supercomputers making the list with the highest ranking system the zin supercomputer at lawrence livermore national laboratory at 29 . 15 2012 intel solution summit datacenter solution innovation award winner for appro greenblade and xtreme x supercomputer hpcwire reader and editor choice 2011 editor s choice for top 5 vendors to watch and best hpc server product or technology for appro xtreme x supercomputer . 16 references edit appro company description . ieee global supplier marketplace . retrieved 19 november 2012 . appro reveals xtreme x supercomputer to support future processor technologies . desktop engineering . retrieved 27 november 2012 . cray to acquire appro international . hpcwire . retrieved 27 november 2012 . cray completes acquisition of appro international . cray inc. retrieved 27 november 2012 . noaa s appro xtreme x supercomputer to boost weather forecasts . hpcwire . retrieved 6 november 2012 . nsf awards 20 million to sdsc to develop gordon . san diego supercomputer center . retrieved 20 november 2012 . the tri lab linux capacity cluster tlcc unifying computing across the nnsa defense complex . asc tlcc . retrieved 20 november 2012 . appro notches up another los alamos super deal . the register . retrieved 17 october 2011 . university of tsukuba xtreme x supercomputer now in operation . prweb . retrieved 20 november 2012 . appro to support hpcmp to improve supercomputing capabilities . information technology market . retrieved 20 november 2012 . university of tennessee supercomputer sets world record for energy efficiency . national institute for computational sciences news . university of tennessee & oak ridge national laboratory . retrieved 21 november 2012 . beacon appro greenblade green500 list . top500.org . retrieved 21 november 2012 . hpcwire announces 2012 readers choice awards winners . hpcwire . retrieved 27 november 2012 . top500 statistics . top500 . retrieved 27 november 2012 . top500 list november 2012 . top500 . retrieved 27 november 2012 . 2011 annual hpcwire readers choice awards . hpcwire . retrieved 27 november 2012 . external links edit official website youtube top500 list november 2012 green500 list november 2012 retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title appro & oldid 647147740 categories craycompanies based in milpitas californiahidden categories articles with topics of unclear notability from july 2012all articles with topics of unclear notabilitypages using infobox company with unsupported parameters navigation menu personal tools not logged 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