CERN And GENROCO Form Joint 'Netstore' Project.

CERN's Gigabit Ethernet and GENROCO's GSN Bridge will

create World's Fastest Storage Area Network

SLINGER, Wis.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 13, 1999--

CERN, the European Center for Nuclear Research based in Geneva, Switzerland, and GENROCO, Inc. (GENROCO)(OTC BB: "GRCI")of Slinger, Wisconsin, announced today that the two organizations have signed a joint venture agreement to develop the "NETSTORE" Storage Area network (SAN) for CERN's next generation high energy physics experiments.

NETSTORE will allow computer systems to share archived information at very high speeds without needing expensive, slow, intermediate servers to distribute the data to thousands of scientists and technicians.

CERN, the renowned center for particle physics research, has also been a world leader in high performance computing technology, including the invention of the World Wide Web. The NETSTORE joint project is CERN's first collaboration directly with a U.S.-based firm.

"We are pleased to work with such an innovative company on a critical storage and retrieval issue," said Arie Van Praag, CERN Project Leader. "The technologies produced through NETSTORE will help us to master the archiving problems produced by the extraordinary data rates of our future High Energy Physics Experiments at CERN. At the same time our research will help companies worldwide that have similar mission critical, high performance storage needs by offering timely, cost effective, and flexible solutions."

NETSTORE will utilize Gigabyte System Network (GSN) and Scheduled Transfer (ST), new ANSI networking and protocol standards capable of delivering data at billions of bytes per second. GSN will serve as the backbone for moving Gigabit Ethernet (GigE), Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), High performance Parallel Interface (HIPPI), and other network traffic to and from Fiber Channel (FC) storage arrays. Large GSN networks are already deployed at Los Alamos National Laboratories in New Mexico, as well as several other U.S. government sites.

Carl Pick, Chairman & CEO of GENROCO remarked, "Applications such as CERN's, as well as weather forecasting, HDTV, seismic analysis, and satellite image processing, will generate terabytes per second of data. Today, only GSN and ST can provide the bandwidth and scalability to handle these requirements and interoperate with Fibre Channel, GigE, and ATM at the same time."

GENROCO is a leading provider of high performance digital video, storage, and network interfaces to such companies as Compaq, SUN, SGI, Tektronix, and Fujitsu. The company is the first to offer GSN adapters, switches, routers, and storage arrays for a wide range of high performance UNIX and Windows NT platforms.

Additional information about GENROCO can be found at: http://www.genroco.com/. An overview of the project can be found at: http://www.cern.ch/HSI/gsn/projects/netstore.html. GSN and ST resources and links can be found at http://www.hnf.org/gsn.htm.

SOURCE: DigitalWork ( http://www.digitalwork.com )

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