Tarari Delivers 20-Times Algorithmic Acceleration for Selected High-Performance Computing Applications.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 24, 2003

Tarari Production-Ready Solutions Offload Compute-Intensive Algorithms

from High Performance Servers, Dramatically Increasing Available

Cycles

Tarari Inc., the award-winning acceleration company, announced today the introduction of the Tarari High Performance Content Processor for high performance computing (HPC) and other similar compute-intensive applications. Tarari Content Processors offload compute-intensive algorithms from servers, cluster nodes, and embedded processors, enabling VARs, ISVs and OEMs to increase the available cycles in new and existing clustered computing applications as well as individual servers and processors. Using Tarari High Performance Content Processors, applications in a variety of fields, such as pattern recognition, seismic analysis, genomics and special effects rendering for the entertainment industry, can run at speeds well over twenty times faster than typical microprocessor-based systems.

The introduction of the reconfigurable Tarari High Performance Content Processor expands Tarari's solution set from network-centered content processing to special-purpose high performance computing applications. The Tarari High Performance Content Processor includes many unmatched features such as advanced memory management, dynamic instantiation of multiple agents and a single-board construction that includes a patent-pending fan and shroud assembly for cooling. And because the Tarari High Performance Content Processor is production-ready, the time to production is dramatically reduced.

"We have demonstrated that our awarding-winning content processors provide extreme acceleration of compute-intensive applications for networking applications," said Randy Smerik, president & CEO, Tarari, Inc. "Our thrust into the market of high-performance computing is a natural outgrowth of our earlier successes."

Tarari's partnership with Celoxica, the technology leader in software-compiled system design, provides developers with the tools they need to quickly create a hardware-accelerated version of their software. These tools reduce the cost and time of verifying those algorithms that will benefit the most from being accelerated by the Tarari High Performance Content Processor. Tarari Content Processors are based on fully reprogrammable algorithmic engines and greatly extend their useful life by enabling major technical upgrades or complete re-provisioning for new applications.

Many market segments utilize large clusters or farms of the fastest available servers to compute typical problems. Reconfigurable computing increases the available cycles by offloading compute-intensive algorithms from the host server to the Tarari High Performance Content Processor. Industries already using or considering reconfigurable computing solutions include biotech/genomics, geophysical sciences such as seismic analysis, entertainment -- for special effects rendering, Department of Defense (DOD) and Department of Energy (DOE) research, aerospace and communications.

Tarari has worked with a number of leading application developers to identify areas and algorithms that will benefit from acceleration by the Tarari High Performance Content Processor. The five main areas identified for product expansion include: Biotech, Seismic, Communications, Entertainment and Financial/Commercial.

Application areas that would derive direct benefit from the Tarari Content Processors include:

Biotech

-- Genomic research

-- Pharmaceutical research

-- Molecular modeling

Seismic

-- Pre-stack depth migration

-- Reservoir modeling

Communications

-- Content examination

-- Pattern matching 

Entertainment

-- Rendering

-- Special effects

Financial/Commercial

-- Modeling and simulation

-- Arbitrage calculations

About Content Processors

Improving performance using multiple processors has evolved from simple Beowolf clusters to today's supercomputers. Tarari High Performance Content Processors are hardware-based subsystem building blocks (silicon, boards, etc.) that snap into servers, cluster nodes and embedded processors servers to allow reconfigurable computation acceleration at much greater speeds than previously possible. The introduction of Content Processors, configured to perform the toughest portions of compute intensive algorithms, extends the power of HPC clusters and server-based applications.

About Tarari, Inc.

Tarari, Inc., the acceleration company headquartered in San Diego, CA, USA, designs and produces Tarari Content Processors that off-load and accelerate compute-intensive complex algorithms used in network security, Web services and high performance computing environments. Tarari's customers include independent software vendors, computer manufacturers and networking manufacturers. Tarari is a privately held company with venture backing from Crosspoint Venture Partners, XMLFund, Miramar Venture Partners and Intel Capital. For more information, visit: www.tarari.com, e-mail: [e-mail], or call [phone].

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