Fujitsu Selects InfiniCon's InfiniBand Switching Systems As Foundation for World's Fastest Linux-Based Supercomputer.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 24, 2003

InfinIO 3000 To Provide 10Gbps, Full Bisectional Bandwidth Fabric

for 512-Node High Performance Computing Cluster

InfiniCon Systems, the premier provider of shared I/O and switching solutions for next-generation server networks, announced today that it has been selected by Fujitsu to provide an InfiniBand-based clustering fabric for the world's fastest Linux-based supercomputer.

The Fujitsu cluster will be deployed by Japan's Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN) to accelerate biotechnology research. It will feature Fujitsu's newly developed Linux(TM) based PRIMERGY servers containing 2,048 Intel Xeon(TM) processors and deliver a peak performance of 12.4 trillion FLOPs (floating point operations per second), vaulting it to the third position in the Top 500 rankings of the world's most powerful supercomputers.

"The power of InfiniBand has always been apparent in its design, but the issue has been when companies such as InfiniCon would bring this technology to the maturity level required for large-scale deployment," stated Vernon Turner, Group Vice President of Global Enterprise Server Solutions at IDC. "This implementation by a tier-one server vendor, with strong HPC expertise, clearly signals the readiness of these solutions."

InfiniCon's InfinIO(TM) 3000 Switch Series will be used to interconnect the Fujitsu computing cluster, providing a non-blocking, 10Gbps full bisectional bandwidth fabric (FBB) that will support 512 multi-processor nodes - the largest of any InfiniBand cluster to be deployed to date. Supercomputers the scope of the Fujitsu cluster were once the realm of mainframe and proprietary technologies, but advances in commodity computing and the bandwidth advantages of the low-latency InfiniBand architecture have created a new, highly-efficient model for designing standards-based high performance computing (HPC) clusters.

The combination of Fujitsu's leading PRIMERGY family of servers and InfiniBand-based switch technology from InfiniCon creates unprecedented levels of performance, reliability, and availability for a 'scale out' cluster solution.

The Foundation for Next-Generation Computing

The InfinIO 3000 Switch Series packs thirty-two 10Gbps InfiniBand ports into 1U of rack space, making it the most powerful and dense switching solution in the industry. Its design has been optimized to deliver top performance as HPC and database clusters scale - reducing end-to-end fabric latency by approximately 600% over competitive technology offerings. In addition, the 3000 Series features Ports On Demand(TM) technology, allowing ports to be added to the fabric non-disruptively to allow seamless growth. InfiniCon provides a complete spectrum of switching and I/O systems to enable users to design 10Gbps InfiniBand fabrics that can scale without performance penalty and connect clusters seamlessly to existing storage and communications networks.

"Our partnership with Fujitsu on the RIKEN project validates InfiniCon's standing as a top systems provider, and confirms InfiniBand's capabilities and readiness to serve as the networking technology that enables the shift to grid, fabric, and cluster models of computing," stated InfiniCon CEO Charles Foley.

About InfiniCon Systems

With its award-winning InfinIO(TM) Architecture - the first systems solution based on InfiniBand to deliver affordable 10Gbps networking to commodity servers while integrating seamlessly with existing Fibre Channel and Ethernet networks - InfiniCon Systems provides the high-performance, low-latency infrastructure required to enable next-generation data centers.

Leveraging the switching and shared I/O capabilities of the InfinIO platform, IT organizations can cluster server resources together to create larger, more powerful computing environments; provision resources to match business demands; and slash operational costs for server deployments through greatly simplified connectivity to distributed storage and networking applications.

InfiniCon, headquartered in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, is a member of the InfiniBand Trade Association, the Storage Network Industry Association, the Direct Access File System (DAFS) Collaborative, and the Server Blade Trade Association. For additional information, visit www.infinicon.com.

This press release includes forward-looking statements, which include, but are not limited to, statements regarding InfiniCon Systems' product offerings, market position, customer base and growth in demand for InfiniBand-based products. These statements involve risks and uncertainty, and actual results could differ materially from those discussed in the forward-looking statements. Although the Company believes its expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions, no assurances can be given that such expectations will prove correct.

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