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Milpitas, CA - Appro, a leading developer of high-density, high-performance servers announced today a Appro’s new HyperBlade cluster utilizing AMD Opteron™ and Intel® Xeon™ processor-based servers will be incorporated as part of a Computer Sciences Corporation (NYSE: CSC) solution offering. This offering is based on a common goal of helping customers reduce complexity in deploying and managing integrated solutions while lowering their total cost of ownership (TCO). Appro and CSC will focus their joint efforts to reduce investment costs to include technology integration, support and professional services. “This marks another milestone in delivering enterprise class products and services into this rapidly growing HPC market”, said Daniel Kim, President and CEO of Appro. Appro HyperBlade Cluster Solution The Appro HyperBlade is designed for the High-Performance Computing (HPC) market and provides a fully integrated cluster solution for large-scale complex computations. With support for up to 80 compute blades -- up to 160 AMD Opteron™ processors or 160 Intel® Xeon™ processors in a single cluster, Appro HyperBlade architecture doubles the current rack density using 1U servers. The Appro HyperBlade cluster offers supercomputing performance with excellent price-performance for enterprise applications. “CSC welcomes the opportunity to include Appro’s technology as part of its HPC solution offerings,” said Robert Scudamore, Vice President of CSC’s HPC Group. “We look forward to working together to offer lower TCO solutions and expertise to the HPC market.”