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Success Story
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Video - Appro and Renault Formula 1 Team: Customer Testimonial |
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Building the Renault F1 Team Aerodynamics Research Supercomputer
Learn about Appro’s experience providing a supercomputer for the use of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) at the Renault F1 Team’s technical centre in Enstone, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom. The solution is based on a balanced design using AMD Opteron™ processors and InfiniBand networking.
Hear from Renault about the value of a balanced high performance computing (HPC) architecture with the Appro Xtreme-X™ Supercomputer. In addition, this customer testimonial highlights the need for scalable performance, power and cooling efficiency, and high availability computing in a redundant and manageable framework. The resulting system provides an advanced platform in which to create the Renault F1 Team’s car designs using CFD in a virtual wind tunnel.
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Appro is focusing its product design to address the HPC cluster
market and key customer requirements including system management,
high availability and price/performance for HPC applications.
Appro has shown the ability to win highly sought-after, large-scale
HPC deals positioning the company to benefit from strong market
growth that IDC projects through 2012.
Earl
Joseph,
IDC Program Vice President, Technical Computing
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Customer Quote
“Appro not only offered us a cost effective solution but
they also improved our required technical specification through
better reliability, greater fault tolerance and redundancy as
well as more flexibility with regards to system scalability.”
Bob Bell,
Technical Director, ING Renault F1 Team
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