Appro Announces Support for Six-Core Opteron

ApproAppro, today, officially announced support for AMD’s Istanbul processor series.  The latest in the Opteron [2000 and 8000] series will ship with up to six cores per socket.  Appro’s dual and quad socket servers, HyperGreen cluster and Xtreme-X cluster series will all support the latest silicon digs from AMD.

Appro is proud to collaborate with AMD to offer Six-Core AMD Opteron processor-based server clusters and supercomputing solutions. The release of the new Six-Core AMD Opteron processor continues AMD’s commitment to offering superior price/performance and performance-per-watt for multi-thread environments, while helping to improve customers’ overall value,” said John Lee, VP of Advanced Technology Solutions for Appro. “Working together, Appro and AMD provide the performance and energy efficiency to meet the demands of our High-Performance computing customers.”

For more info on Appro’s support of Istanbul, read the full release here.