Mercury Computer Systems Extends Development Capabilities for RACE++ Multicomputer Platform.

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CHELMSFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 14, 2001

Application Development Tool Vendors Join RACEware Software Partner

Program

Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRCY), a leading provider of embedded, real-time digital signal and image processing computer systems, announced today that it has formed alliances with seven strategic vendors of application development tools for the RACE++(TM) multicomputer platform. The seven companies have joined the RACEware(TM) Software Partner Program, which was formed to extend the capabilities of application developers and increase the availability of additional tools for Mercury's RACE++ Series systems. As part of Mercury's increased investment in software, these alliances enhance application developer productivity, reduce development costs and shorten time to deployment.

"Mercury's strategy provides customers with quality software development tools and libraries by partnering with third-party tool providers and investing directly in R&D," said Richard Jaenicke, director of product marketing at Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. "The RACEware Software Partner Program enables RACE++ application developers to easily select software tools to speed their development cycle, and it improves access to the developer market for tool suppliers that participate in the RACEware program."

Independent software vendors selected for the program offer development tools appropriate to the needs of Mercury's customer base. Member companies of the program include:

-- ARTiSAN Software Tools, Inc. - offers products, services and a process for systems and software modeling to accelerate the development of next-generation real-time systems. The ARTiSAN Real-Time Studio(R), a suite of development tools that incorporates Unified Modeling Language (UML) features, enables large engineering teams to visualize, design and validate systems before building them by simplifying implementation with code generation, documentation and software reuse.

-- Blue Horizon Development Software, Inc. - the developer of GEDAE(TM), a software development productivity tool based on the data flow graph paradigm. Blue Horizon's mission is to make it easy for customers to develop digital signal processing applications and products. Blue Horizon is well-known for its customer support.

-- Honeywell - a U.S. $25-billion diversified technology and manufacturing leader, serving customers worldwide. The company is a leading provider of software and solutions, including SAGE, which provides an integration framework for rapid integration, simplifying system and application development. SAGE captures the knowledge a developer would typically need, in order to integrate an application, targeting a specific platform.

-- Integrated Sensors, Inc. - a 15-year-old privately held company with expertise in the areas of high-performance parallel computing, sensor integration, and systems engineering. The firm's RTExpress is a software development and run-time environment that provides a parallel implementation of MATLAB code across multiple processor nodes. It is used for both embedded and non-embedded high performance parallel computers.

-- Management Communications and Control, Inc. - a company that has provided graphical, icon-based automated code generation tools for 15 years. MCCI sells and supports the Autocoding Toolset, software tools that generate concurrent, multi-threaded applications with embeddable external control code modules from graphical and iconic specifications.

-- MPI Software Technology, Inc. - a privately held provider of commercial-grade message passing "middleware" for cluster systems and embedded computers. The company offers MPI/Pro for Mercury RACE(R), a message passing interface that defines data transfers among multiple processors.

-- Objective Interface Systems, Inc. - a worldwide leader of embedded and real-time middleware solutions provides CORBA-based development tools to meet the high-performance needs for telecommunications, data communications, industrial automation, electronics, military and aerospace markets. Its premier product, ORBexpress, has been used since 1997 for the creation of reliable, complex real-time and embedded systems.

"We are pleased to have entered into this relationship with Mercury Computer Systems," said Steve Grimaldi, chief operating officer at Objective Interface Systems, Inc. "The relationship of ORBexpress with the RACEware Program provides users with extensive interoperability, and the potential for new and expanded opportunities presented by this program is far-reaching."

"We hope to make a significant impact on many defense/medical/industrial programs by offering industry standard performance portable software through the RACEware program," said Tony Skjellum, president of MPI Software Technology. "We are proud to offer our MPI/Pro software for the RACE++ platform."

"The RACEware program demonstrates Mercury's commitment to providing powerful embedded application tools like GEDAE, assuring customers the benefits of Blue Horizon's support and the strengths of Mercury's hardware," said Bill Lundgren, president of Blue Horizon Software.

RACE++ systems are powered by PowerPC microprocessors, in configurations that scale from dozens to hundreds of processors and gigaflops. Mercury provides a wide range of software development tools and libraries including the Scientific Algorithm Library (SAL); a MULTI(R) integrated development environment (IDE) for Solaris and Windows NT development hosts; Trace Analysis Tool and Library (TATL(TM)), a multiprocessor debugging aid; and Parallel Acceleration System (PAS(TM)), an aid to parallelizing DSP multiprocessor applications. Third-party tool providers complement the Mercury tools, allowing end users to choose the tools that meet their specific needs.

Additional information about the RACEware Software Partner Program, including a comprehensive listing of software tools, is available on Mercury's web site at www.mc.com/raceware/index.html.

About Mercury Computer Systems, Inc.

Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRCY) is the leading independent producer of high-performance embedded, real-time digital signal and image processing computer systems that transform sensor data to information for analysis and interpretation. Mercury's products play a critical role in a wide range of defense electronics and medical imaging applications. In air-, sea-, and land-based military platforms, these systems process real-time radar, sonar, and signals intelligence data. Mercury's systems are also used in state-of-the-art medical diagnostic devices, including magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computed tomography (CT), positron emission tomography (PET), and the rapidly growing field of digital X-ray.

Based in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, Mercury serves customers in North America, Europe and Asia through its direct sales force and a network of subsidiaries and distributors.

Visit Mercury on the Web: www.mc.com

RACE is a registered trademark and RACEware, RACE++, PAS and TATL are trademarks of Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. Real-Time Studio is a registered trademark of ARTiSAN Software Tools, Inc. GEDAE is a trademark of Blue Horizon Development Software, Inc.; all rights reserved. Product and company names mentioned may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective holders.