MICROWAY LAUNCHES WHISPERSTATION™-PSC
A TESLA PERSONAL SUPERCOMPUTER

WhisperStation-PSC delivers 4 TFLOPS in a Quiet Desktop Configuration


Kingston, MA - November 18, 2008 - Microway, Inc. today announced the immediate availability of WhisperStation-PSC, their NVIDIA Tesla-based Personal Supercomputer. Leveraging its history of delivering HPC solutions since 1982, Microway extends its offering of fully integrated workstations by featuring the Tesla GPUs and the CUDA SDK. WhisperStation-PSC contains up to 4 Tesla C1060 GPUs, 2 AMD or Intel processors, 64 GB memory and optional RAID storage. Microway's systems will be showcased at Supercomputing08, in Booth 1945.

"4 TFLOPS performance required a room-sized system only a few years ago," said Stephen Fried, Microway CTO. "I am impressed with the performance leap our customers are experiencing with Tesla. CUDA Developers, leveraging Tesla GPU performance, have been reporting from 10x to 250x applications performance speedup. GPU computing has truly revolutionized HPC."

In addition to the WhisperStation-PSC configuration, Microway delivers the S1070 Tesla server in the HPC clusters it designs. Currently the company is building a 24 node computational cluster with 48 Tesla GPUs for a large research laboratory.

The CUDA SDK tool suite and Tesla GPUs are helping scientists solve their most important HPC challenges in industries where OpenMP applications employing hundreds of parallel threads are used to speed up floating point operations. These products are transforming computationally-intensive applications such as industrial design, financial modeling, space exploration, CFD simulation and medical imaging. Also introduced at SC08 and available from Microway is The Portland Group's PGI 8.0 release that includes a technology preview of the PGI accelerator programming strategy. PGI 8.0 compilers accept new directives that allow users to select compute intensive regions of Linux x64 Fortran and C99 programs and automatically offload them to an NVIDIA GPU.

The key benefits of each Tesla GPU include a massively multi-threaded architecture with 240 floating point processor cores, 933 GFLOPS Single Precision Floating Point throughput with support for Double Precision, and 4 GB High-Speed Memory at 102 GB/s bandwidth.

Whisperstation-PSC is available on Microway's GSA contract. It can be configured with Linux or Windows and arrives at the customer's site ready to run.

For more information visit www.microway.com/tesla


About NVIDIA
NVIDIA (Nasdaq: NVDA) is the world leader in visual computing technologies and the inventor of the GPU. NVIDIA serves the high-performance computing market with its Tesla™ products. With over 5,000 employees worldwide, NVIDIA is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with offices in Europe, Asia and the Americas. For more information, visit www.nvidia.com.


About Microway, Inc.
Incorporated in 1982, Microway is a leader 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, who choose Microway 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 Enterprise Linux, CUDA SDK, Intel, PathScale and PGI Compilers on its clusters, workstations and storage servers. Microway is an AMD Platinum Partner, Intel Premier Channel Partner, Nvidia PartnerForce Premier Member, Mellanox partner and Novell Gold Partner. Classified as a small business, woman owned and operated, Microway's GSA Contract Number is GS-35F-0431N.

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