Appro is rolling out new Intel-powered high-performance computing offerings aimed at the financial services and oil and gas industries.
Appro is expanding its supercomputing hardware portfolio with offerings
targeting the high-frequency trading space and oil and gas market.
Appro on Oct. 12 unveiled the dual-socket HF1 server, which
includes overclocked Intel Xeon 5600 "Westmere" processors and a
liquid-cooling system that is designed to create the kind of high-power,
low-latency environment that traders need for their rapid transactions.
The following day, the company-in conjunction with Halliburton's
Landmark Software Services business unit-announced a preconfigured cluster
designed to run new software from Landmark for processing oil exploration data.
The Landmark Seismic Coverage Validation Engine includes preconfigured
a dual-socket Appro GreenBlade System powered by Xeon processors, with 32 nodes
and up to 12 CPU cores per node and 8GB of memory. The cluster is pretested to
run Landmark's new Seismic Coverage Validation Tools.
The HF1 is a rack-mount system that is powered by two Xeon
X5680s overclocked up to 4.4GHz and offers up to 48GB of memory. It also has
two on-board Gigabit Ethernet ports and seven PCIe Gen 2 slots, remote
management capabilities and several options of high-speed interconnects.
Appro said financial firms are the key customers, particularly
those companies that handle high-frequency and electronic trading.
Appro's offering shows how companies can get technology that is
made specifically for their industries, according to John Lee, vice president
of advanced technology solutions at Appro.
"Appro's announcement today represents a fundamental
change of how we use technology," Lee said in a statement. "Now,
customers can have high-performance computing that is differentiated for their
market segment demands."
The Landmark Seismic Coverage Validation Engine fits into that
trend as well. It is designed to run Landmark's new Seismic Coverage Validation
Tools, applications that can help an oil company get the most out of the
complex seismic data that is gathered during exploration.
The work is compute-intensive and requires high-performance
computing capabilities, according to Appro officials. The Landmark Seismic
Coverage Validation Engine is designed to enable geoscientists to get faster
results, make timely decisions and drive down the costs of exploration, they
said.
The offering runs on Red Hat Linux and comes with Intel Cluster
Ready software. It's also preloaded with Landmark's Seismic Coverage Validation
Tools.
Appro will demonstrate the Landmark Seismic Coverage Validation
Engine at the SEG International Exposition in Denver
Oct. 17-20.
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