Microway announces NumberSmasher®-5000 Linux-Based clusters, servers and WhisperStations employing the Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor 5000 series

Plymouth, MA - May 23, 2006 - Microway today announced their new Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® processor-based clusters and WhisperStations. The Dual-Core Intel Xeon Processor 5000-based solutions bring new advancements in memory, power, I/O, and security, optimizing the platform for demands of multi-core processing. Enhanced by up to three times the memory bandwidth and four times the capacity with new Fully Buffered DIMM memory (DDR2 based), system responsiveness is perfect for demanding HPC and data intensive applications.

An Intel Premier Channel Partner, Microway uses industry-leading Intel technologies, coupled with a high level of proprietary cluster monitoring and management software, to create solutions specific to HPC customers? needs. Enhancing ROI, Microway provides the latest Intel® products and solutions that are compatible with customers' existing cluster and software solutions.

Utilizing 65nm process technology, the new Dual-Core Intel Xeon processor 5000 series provides faster, energy-efficient processing capabilities to achieve increased system performance and responsiveness, while lowering power consumption.

When a NumberSmasher-5000 cluster is connected with Microway?s FasTree? InfiniBand switch, it becomes possible for MPI applications to hit interprocessor bandwidths of 900 MB/sec while taking advantage of the 3.8 microsecond latency of the latest Mellanox HCA?s. The latest DDR switches further raise the bandwidth up to 1.4GB/s.

"The latest Intel architecture is especially interesting for our customers whose applications take advantage of the SIMD floating point units found in Dual-Core Intel Xeon processors," said Stephen Fried, Chairperson and Cofounder of Microway. "These make it possible to execute up to four floating point adds per cycle per core, a real plus for users who are performing DSP computations like radix 8 FFT's that are bound by the speed of the floating point adder. Using the vector feature of the Intel® compilers, it becomes possible for an Intel® dual processor and dual-core combination to crank out 16 adds per cycle, which at 3.7 GHz is 65 single precision gigaflops! The large caches also make it possible to store 64K complex data sets in core, dramatically reducing the time it takes to perform large FFT's."

He continued, "The Dual-Core Intel® Xeon processors really shine in situations where code inefficiency is encountered due to the nature of the problems being solved or the software being run. Applications which do not take advantage of hand-tuned kernels will end up speeding up by 50% or more, because they do not run memory bandwidth limited. Problems where addressing has to pass through filters before fetches can be made, such as sparse matrix solvers, also show very large speed ups."

For more information Microway's new NumberSmasher®-5000 products please visit the company's web site at www.microway.com.


About Microway, Inc.

Incorporated in 1982, Microway is a major vendor in the High Performance Computing market, designing state-of-the-art, high-end Linux clusters, servers, and data storage solutions. Users worldwide pushing the limits of technology choose us for solutions. These include universities, life sciences, financial, military, Fortune 500s and research agencies. Microway partners with leading commercial software providers to include products such as SUSE and Red Hat Linux, Platform Computing LSF, PathScale, Intel, and PGI Compilers in HPC clusters. Microway is an AMD Platinum Partner, Intel Premier Provider, Novell Gold Partner and Microsoft Direct OEM for Windows Server 2003 Cluster Edition. Classified as a small business, woman owned and operated, Microway's GSA Contract Number is GS-35F-0431N. Trademarks include GigaCube, MCMS, MPI Link-Checker, Navion, NumberSmasher, NodeWatch, and Quadputer.

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