Microway® Showcases New Products Based on Infiniband™ Technology

PLYMOUTH, MA -- November 15, 2002 -- Microway, Inc., a provider of leading edge technology for solving high performance computing problems, will be showcasing InfiniBand technology in a number of exciting new products and concept designs at SC2002, November 18-21, 2002 in Baltimore, MD.

The main demonstration will consist of a combination of twelve nodes interconnected via InfiniBand. Eight Microway InfinaBlade single board computers will be housed in a 5U, rack mounted chassis. Four 1U Xeon nodes, with InfiniBand HCAs will be connected using a Mellanox eight port switch. The switch for the 1Us will be connected to the switch in the InfinaBlade chassis connecting all twelve devices into a single cluster. The InfinaBlade contains one 1.8 GHz P4 processor and memory. The InfinaBlade chassis is built with a common, passive backplane.

Interconnection within the chassis is provided by an InfiniBand switch card inserted into the backplane. The switch provides connectivity on the backplane and has four additional ports available for external connections. Up to two switches can be connected to the backplane for redundancy. The chassis will accommodate a maximum of twelve InfinaBlades. Power is provided by a two KW industrial-grade power supply.

Stephen Fried, President and CTO of Microway commented, "It's exciting to be back in the single board computer business. The InfinaBlade product announced today integrates fast processors with the highest speed and lowest latency interconnect available. This marriage results in a cost-effective, compact clustering solution that also features high reliability - all of the blades and switches built into our InfinaBlade Chassis are hot swappable and can be set up to operate redundantly, if desired."

As processors achieve quantum improvements in performance, the supporting cluster technology must also keep pace. In the past eighteen months we have seen processors break the 2 GHz and now 3 GHz barriers. InfiniBand provides a doubling of raw bandwidth and the potential for a three fold reduction in latency based on the inherent architecture. As a provider of leading HPC technologies, Microway is committed to keeping pace with the latest developments in this market.

Incorporated in 1982, Microway is a major vendor in the Supercomputing market. Microway designs and integrates state of the art, high end Linux solutions for universities, life sciences, financial institutions, Fortune 500 companies and government research agencies worldwide. Specializing in meeting the needs of high performance computing applications, Microway delivers a specially designed 1U chassis with Across the Board cooling. Microway platforms incorporate Xeon, Athlon and Alpha processors. Its trademarks include NumberSmasher, GigaBlade, Screamer, RuggedRak and QuadPuter.

To get a price quote on any high-end fully integrated Microway Cluster, Workstation or Server visit the Price Quote page at www.microway.com. For personal assistance please call our sales department at 508-732-5534.