Microway, Inc. and Apex Sign Professional Services Agreement

PLYMOUTH, MA, February 6, 2003 - Microway, a leading provider of custom Linux clusters to the high performance computing community and Apex Digital Systems, one of the foremost services-based technology providers for life sciences, announced a professional services program for the life sciences market today.

This agreement enables Microway and Apex to jointly offer a fully-integrated package of HPC products and professional consulting services, customized to individual customers. The service areas include evaluation and recommendations for data warehousing, project management, network/data center design, custom software installations, integration and management systems that best suit your custom needs.

"We offer expertise and proven experience in virtually every aspect of research computing" said Manuel Mattke, President and CEO of Apex. "Our initial consulting engagements are structured to provide useful results quickly and are essentially a reliable way for our clients to best align appropriate technologies with scientific goals. We have been installing, managing and supporting clusters for several years and have a thorough understanding of what works best for end-users. We have long recommended Microway and are pleased to have established a more formal relationship with this outstanding company."

"In the past year, Microway has been aggressively pursuing partnerships with organizations that complement our solutions for HPC users. By working closely with firms like Apex, we enhance our application expertise," said Jay Owen, Vice President, Business Development for Microway. "Apex and Microway have already identified a number of opportunities for joint work."

In 2002, Microway developed a number of management tools including MCMS™ and NodeWatch™. MCMS provides a view of resource utilization on cluster nodes. NodeWatch is a proprietary hardware/software environmental monitoring product. Microway also recently expanded their agreement with Platform Computing to include the full suite of Platform products and services for Microway clusters. Microway is currently evaluating technology enhancements from 64-bit processors and cluster interconnects.

About Microway
Microway is a major vendor in the Supercomputing market. Microway designs and integrates state of the art, high end Linux clusters for universities, life sciences, financial institutions, Fortune 500 companies and government research agencies worldwide. Microway's products incorporate Xeon, Itanium2, Athlon, Opteron and Alpha processors in 1U and 4U-based custom configurations with monitoring and management tools. Incorporated in 1982, Microway is a member of the Intel Premier Provider program. For more information, please visit www.microway.com.

About Apex Digital Systems
Apex is a services-based provider with leading academic, supercomputing, biotechnology, pharmaceutical and healthcare clients. Apex's services include consulting, applications development, turnkey cluster installation, systems management and support. Apex works as a key advisor to both business and technology managers, with a strong focus on enhancing the productivity of companies through appropriate, well-designed and managed technology resources. Apex is a reliable, fast, and cost-effective resource with the knowledge and experience to help clients accomplish meaningful results quickly.