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Appro Servers to Support AMD Maranello CPUs - Opteron 6100 Series

Appro, a leading provider of supercomputing solutions, today announces that it will support AMD’s upcoming server platform, currently codenamed “Maranello,” which is scheduled for availability in Q1 2010. AMD's upcoming server platform is expected to fit within the new G34 socket and feature the eight- and twelve-core AMD Opteron 6100 Series processor variant currently codenamed “Magny-Cours”.

Appro expects to refresh its dual and quad-socket performance optimized and power-efficient supercomputing building block server lines based on the next-generation “Maranello” platform. Appro expects that its Hyper Cluster Series based on these new server platforms will offer the latest optimized technologies for HPC such as DDR3, quad 16-bit HyperTransport 3 technology links with up to 6.4 GT/s per link, and the AMD SR56x0 chipset with AMD-Vi technology and PCIe Gen 2.

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Posted by | Thu, Nov 12, 2009 - 10:32 AM