Its products include "high-performance" servers, clusters, workstations, and RAID storage systems for scientific research, government and military, entertainment content creators, developers, and private clouds.

[3] The company has implemented clustering software from NASA Goddard's Beowulf project in its supercomputers designed for bioinformatics, medical imaging, computational chemistry and other scientific applications.

In 1998, it manufactured the Aeneas Supercomputer for Dr. Herbert Hamber of the University of California, Irvine (the physics and astronomy department[5]); it was based on Linux and had a maximum speed of 20.1 Gigaflops.

[8] In 2003 the company released the third version of its cluster management software with support for 32-bit and 64-bit AMD and Intel processors, Linux kernel and other open source tools.

In the same year MapR started using CloudOOP 12000 platform for record setting time series data base ingestion rate[14] and the company Joined Hortonworks Partner Program.