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Industry’s First High Frequency Server to offer Extreme Speeds for High Speed Trading
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Milpitas, CA, October 12, 2010 – Appro (http://www.appro.com), a leading provider of supercomputing solutions, once again takes the leadership role introducing the new 3U Appro HF1 server, the Industry’s first High Frequency server available based on Intel® Xeon® Processors 5600 series. This product will be available to order in limited quantities in 2010 and will ship in volume in Q1 2011.
The Appro HF1, High Frequency server is a rack mount industry standard platform offering optimized overclocked capabilities and liquid-cooling features to maintain a stable thermal operation. This server is finely tuned to provide exceptional speed and performance for the Financial Industry delivering reliability and price/performance to support high-speed trading applications.
The server offers dual Intel® Xeon® Processors X5680 series overclocked up to 4.4GHz on each CPU core, with a theoretical peak performance of up to 211GF. It offers up to 48GB of memory operating up to 1440MHz. This server provides extreme processor and memory performance while offering server-class reliability, availability, serviceability and manageability. The Appro HF1 server is integrated with two on board Gigabit Ethernet ports and seven PCI-e Gen 2 slots per server featuring ease of integration, network compatibility, and fast deployment. The Appro HF1 server also offers remote server management capabilities, high-speed interconnect options and a variety of configurations to include Linux Operating System.
Ideal customers are in the Financial Industry, especially the high-frequency and electronic trading, hedge funds and proprietary trading firms. Industries that can take advantage of the high CPU clock frequency and overclocked memory will also benefit from this solution.
“Appro’s announcement today represents a fundamental change of how we use technology,” said John Lee, VP of Advanced Technology Solutions of Appro. 'Now, customers can have high performance computing that is differentiated for their market segment demands. Appro offers innovative, customer-focused server platforms and cluster technologies that optimize the performance and utilization of IT investments.'
“Performance-passionate customers in high frequency trading and financial systems need cutting-edge performance at the boundary of innovation,” said Rajeeb Hazra, general manager of high-performance computing at Intel Corporation. “The Appro HF1 server exemplifies Appro’s innovation in high performance computing systems. By taking full advantage of the smaller, faster and more energy-efficient transistors in our Intel Xeon Processor 5600 series, the Appro HF1 server offers an excellent platform for high-speed processing deployments and lower-latency solutions.”
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Appro HF1 -- Industry's First High-Frequency Server to offer Extreme Speeds for High Speed Trading Applications
As high-frequency and electronic trading continue to proliferate, hedge funds, proprietary trading firms and other asset management firms are being forced to look for new high performance computing servers to provide competitive differentiation to attract and compete for market share. In today’s economies, exchanges must be speedy, secure, resilient, and cost efficient. Processing must be performed with the lowest latency possible while being fast, scalable and based on open and industry standards.
With this need for reliability and higher levels of speed and performance, Appro introduced the new 3U Appro HF1 server, the Industry’s first High Frequency server based on Intel® Xeon® Processors 5600 series. The Appro HF1 server is an industry standard platform offering optimized overclocked capabilities and liquid-cooling features to maintain a stable thermal operation. This server is finely tuned to provide exceptional speed and performance for the Financial Industry delivering reliability and price/performance to support high-speed trading applications.
The server offers dual Intel® Xeon® Processors X5680 series overclocked up to 4.4GHz on each CPU core, with a theoretical peak performance of up to 211GF. It offers up to 48GB of memory operating up to 1440MHz. This server provides extreme processor and memory performance while offering server-class reliability, availability, serviceability and manageability. The Appro HF1 server is integrated with two on board Gigabit Ethernet ports and seven PCI-e Gen 2 slots per server featuring ease of integration, network compatibility, and fast deployment. The Appro HF1 server also offers remote server management capabilities, high-speed interconnect options and a variety of configurations to include Linux Operating System.
Ideal Environment
Ideal customers are in the Financial Industry, especially the high-frequency and electronic trading, hedge funds and proprietary trading firms. Industries that can take advantage of the high CPU clock frequency and overclocked memory will also benefit from this solution.
http://www.appro.com/product/HF1server_overview.aspQuote:
Processor
Two six-core Intel Westmere X5680 at 4.4GHz Overclocked
Chipset
Intel 5520/ICH10R
Memory Type
Support for up to 1440 MHz (overclocked 1333 MHz DIMMS)
Memory Capacity
Supports 2GB, 4GB and 8GB DIMMS for up to 48GB
Disk Controller
On-board SATA controller, up to 6 ports (300 MBps), 2 ports (600 MBps)
Drive Bays
Two (2) 3.5” HDD SATAII Drives (internal, not hot swap)
Support for one (1) DVD ROM Drive
Storage Capacity
2x500GB Seagate SATA disks (7200 rpm)
Graphics
BFG GeForce 8400 GS Video Card, 512MB DDR
Network Interface
On-board dual-port Ethernet controller (10/100/1000 Mbps)
Input/Output
6 USB 2.0 compliant ports + 2 USB 3.0 compliant ports
Expansion Slots
Seven PCIe Gen 2 slots:
-- Six x8 and one x16 or
-- Four (4) x16 (slots 1,2,3,5)
Power Supply
1200W High-Efficiency single or dual hot swappable power supplies
Cooling
Water Cooled (up to 4.4 GHz)
Weight
Installed: 45.5 lbs (20.6kg)
Dimensions (HxWxD)
5.12”(H) x 17.125”(W) x 28.33”(D)
Temperature
Operating: 10C-30C
Remote Server Mgmt
IKVM over IP Available
Is this the world's first professional, enterprise-ready liquid cooled and factory overclocked x86/64 computer? I know IBM has used water cooling for some of their wilder non-x86 machines.. But anything like this seen before?
I'm suddenly interested in which system they've used. I guess it's proprietary.
