Microway and Scyld form Partnership

Kingston, MA -- January 29, 2001 -- Microway, well- known designer and manufacturer of high end integrated Beowulf systems, and Scyld Computing Corporation, leading developers and providers of Beowulf clustering operating system software; today announced Microway's entering into Scyld's "Authorized Vendor" program. Microway will provide pre-integrated, fully tested systems with Scyld's, second generation Beowulf clustering operating system - Scyld Beowulf.

Microway's custom configured, Alpha- and Intel® Pentium®-based Beowulf clusters will be completely integrated, tested and fully supported. Microway will provide systems based on customer's needs and can incorporate the latest in processor and interconnect technologies leveraging Scyld's Beowulf clustering operating systems robustness and ongoing capability enhancements.

Ann Fried, Chairman and Co-founder of Microway, commented: "We believe that Scyld has the leading Beowulf clustering product on the market for high performance computing. Their technical expertise, support, and commitment to evolve and maintain Scyld Beowulf is highly compatible with Microway's corporated business ethic. Offering Scyld Beowulf software will allow us to deliver the best possible solutions for our customers' needs. Plus, Microway's years of experience providing Beowulf clusters, will assure customers that they are purchasing top end, well supported Beowulf cluster solutions."

As a Scyld Authorized Vendor, Microway provides the full support of the operating system backed by the original development team. This allows customers access to the years of development and expertise of a company that is a leader in the Linux operating system and Beowulf style high performance computing. Microway's experienced integration and technical support team will receive specific training and technical support from Scyld, delivering Microway customers powerful solutions and top support for Beowulf cluster deployments. Scyld software will initially be offered on Microway's new 833MHz Alpha and 933MHz Intel® Pentium® Beowulf clusters.

"The stability, reliability and advanced Beowulf clustering features of the Scyld Beowulf software will provide Microway's customers with powerful, well-supported, high performance computing solutions, featuring a standard platform for the creation and deployment of advanced Beowulf clustering applications," states Donald Becker, CTO of Scyld Computing Corporation.

Scyld Computing Corporation develops and supports software for high-performance computing. Donald Becker, CTO, and Scyld developers are well known in the Linux community for their extensive contributions to the Linux kernel. Scyld is based in Annapolis, Maryland. Further information may be obtained at www.scyld.com.

Microway, based in Plymouth, Massachusetts has provided HPC solutions to the university and government research computing communities since 1982. The company currently integrates Alpha, Intel® Pentium®, and Athlon processors into Linux and UNIX based workstations and Beowulf Clusters. Its trademarks include NumberSmasher, Screamer, FastCache, RuggedRak, and QuadPuter. For more information visit www.microway.com