With its single point of deployment and management, unified process space
and completely integrated software toolset for HPC, Scyld Beowulf has been
designed from the ground up to make Linux clusters easy. LSTC is a member SilverStorm's
TAPP alliance program .

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Hallquist to commercialize as LS-DYNA the public domain
code that originated as DYNA3D. Earth
scientists will model and simulate, with great detail, the deformation of
sediments, soils and other materials near the earth's surface.

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A supercomputer is, generally, a really big and fast computer.

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Scyld Beowulf is a trademark of Scyld Software Corporation."

About SilverStorm 's Technology Alliance Partner Program (TAPP)

LSTC is a member of TAPP, a collaborative effort among leading
technology companies which facilitates the development of integrated
working solutions for high performance business computing."

About the Cray XD1 Supercomputer

The Cray XD1 supercomputer combines direct-connect system architecture,
high performance computing (HPC)-optimized Linux, management and
reconfigurable computing technologies to deliver exceptional performance on
real-world applications.

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To learn more about Linux clustering software,
please visit Scyld Software at http://www.com

About Livermore Software Technology Corporation

Headquartered in Livermore , California, Livermore Software
Technology Corporation (LSTC) develops LS-DYNA and a suite of related
and supporting engineering software products.
For more information, visit www.

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PRESS RELEASE Scyld Software Demonstrates Easy Deployment of Biocomputing Clusters With Newly Shipped Scyld Beowulf(TM) Series 29 cz-5

"We are pleased to be working with leading application vendors
like LSTC in certifying and optimizing their applications for our
network solutions," said Russ Hawkins, CEO of SilverStorm
Technologies. LSTC was founded in 1987
by John O. We believe it provides further proof of the value
of Cray's innovative research and development in providing some of the
world's most advanced computing systems.

The standard of what exactly constitutes a supercomputer has evolved with the capabilities of the computing industry.

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"While the sheer compute power and excellent price point of Linux clusters
have always been attractive to the scientific computing markets, the ease
with which widely used bioscience applications can be deployed and managed
with Scyld Beowulf clustering software makes Scyld by far the best choice
for these critical applications," said Marco Annaratone, general manager of
Scyld Software.com.
With the development of this interface, LS -DYNA customers can
readily incorporate SilverStorm's InfiniBand-based networking products
for deployment on production clusters comprised of hundreds to
thousands of nodes.com or contact us at
info@silverstorm."

"We designed Dual-Core AMD Opteron processors to help our customers realize
more computing power and efficiency," said Ben Williams, vice president of
commercial business at AMD. Designed to support hundreds
of users in the future, the system will initially be used for a series of
memory-intensive applications sponsored by the National Science Foundation.

Safe Harbor Statement

This press release contains forward-looking statements.

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Bio/Life Science Applications

At the Bio-IT World Conference, Scyld Beowulf Series 29 cz-5 will be
demonstrated with the widely used AMBER (Assisted Model Building with
Energy Refinement) simulation software for molecular dynamics.

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"The standards-based Linux operating
system allows us to provide a common hardware and software platform that
enables collaboration and resource sharing among our various research
groups, resulting in greater efficiency and economy. CITI
anticipates the supercomputer will eventually benefit any Rice faculty
member whose research depends on large-scale computing. All other trademarks are the property of their
respective owners.

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Scyld
Beowulf is exceptionally well suited to parallel applications involving
complex simulations such as BLAST, GROMACS, HMMer, mpiBLAST, NAMD, and
Phylip, to name a few. Through
TAPP, SilverStorm ensures common directions for technology and enables
its partners to certify and optimize their applications and middleware
with SilverStorm's products.silverstorm .

Cray XD1 supercomputers are designed to take advantage of Dual-Core AMD
Opteron processors ."

The acquisition of the supercomputer was funded by a $2 million federal
grant, one of the largest awarded under the National Science Foundation's
Major Research Infrastructure program.

About Rice University's Supercomputer Research

The Rice research system will support an expanding community of researchers
in fields as diverse as biotechnology, nanotechnology, psychology, earth
sciences, fluid dynamics and computer science.
Psychologists will use the system to better understand the structure and
functions of the human brain and how they impact the development of speech,
language , memory, perception and motor skills.

About Cray Inc.

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Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. And fluid dynamics researchers will use the
supercomputer to model how heart pumps and other devices might aid blood
flow.

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Whether the challenge is in virtual drug screening
or comparative genomics, now more than ever before, Scyld Beowulf delivers
a powerful, elegantly simple solution for bioinformatics and genomic
researchers who need to focus on the job in hand rather than managing
technology infrastructure. Hallquist.

"Rice's research community is growing rapidly, and the users have demanded
a system that will provide the processing power required to support a
diverse set of compute-intensive challenges across both science and
engineering," said Jan Odegard, executive director of Rice's Computer and
Information Technology Institute (CITI).cray. This high-speed interconnect significantly accelerates
applications, allowing users to tackle larger problems and solve them more
quickly.

As the global leader in HPC, Cray provides innovative supercomputing
systems that enable scientists and engineers in government, industry and
academia to meet both existing and future computational challenges.

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With Scyld Beowulf scaling so effectively, users migrate
their runs from small to large clusters without ever leaving the familiar
Scyld environment .
"LS-DYNA performance benefits directly from InfiniBand's RDMA
interfaces, resulting in very low latency. Projects currently
scheduled to run on the system include models of flows in implanted blood
pumps, studies of thermal convection in the Earth's mantle and
computer-aided drug discovery.

Cray is a registered trademark, and Cray XD1 is a trademark, of Cray Inc.

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Powerful scientific computing algorithms can address complex problems, but
typically require large and expensive computing power such as
supercomputers or large UNIX systems for numerical computation."

Linux clusters are an increasingly popular platform for scientific
computing applications. (NASDAQ: CRAY) today announced that Rice University in Houston, Texas, has chosen
the Cray XD1 supercomputer to power its new research computing system.cray.

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SilverStorm Technology Alliance Partner Program Bolsters
Development of Integrated Clustering Solutions for the Automotive and
Aerospace Market

SilverStorm Technologies, Inc. "We take seriously our role in helping our customers to
deploy their key business applications by ensuring the certification
of fully tested high performance solutions using our InfiniBand
networking products.

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The company's customer
base includes Fortune 1,000 companies, government agencies and educational
institutions.scyld.
Equipped with 336 Dual-Core AMD Opteron processors (672 cores), the
supercomputer will be used by Rice researchers for studies that include
computer science, biophysics, computational mathematics, earth sciences and
cognitive neuroscience. Go to www.

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This
demonstration of Scyld Beowulf Series 29 cz-5 shows how researchers within
the life sciences and other compute-intensive areas can use their high
performance computing (HPC) applications on powerful Linux clusters to
overcome these challenges and decrease the compute time and administrative
overhead of running complex calculations. With its powerful unified process space, Scyld
Beowulf Series 29 allows scientists and researchers to run these
applications in the same way as they are used to with large SMP machines --
but at a fraction of the price. Scyld
Beowulf provides extraordinary ease of deployment, management and
scalability for administrators and end users alike. DYNA3D was developed at the Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory, by LSTC's founder, John O.com

With two processor cores on a single die, the dual-core
devices boost performance without requiring as much power, cooling or space
as two single-core processors. Purpose-built for demanding HPC applications such
as computational chemistry, environmental forecasting and computer-aided
engineering, the Cray XD1 system lets users simulate, analyze and solve
complex problems more quickly and accurately .

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BIO-IT WORLD CON Scyld
Software will demonstrate the newly shipping Scyld Beowulf Series 29
cz-5 for the first time at the Bio-IT World Conference, showing bioscience
researchers and system administrators how popular bioinformatics
applications can be deployed on Linux clusters and easily managed using the
industry leading Linux clustering software, Scyld Beowulf. "After performing extensive
application benchmarks, we chose the Cray XD1 supercomputer with Dual-Core
AMD Opteron processors because it significantly outperformed competing
systems when running several key applications.

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Founded in 1998, Scyld Software is headquartered in San
Francisco, California. Wayne Mindle of LSTC. The Cray XD1 system also provides
application acceleration capabilities using FPGA technology tightly
connected to the direct-connect structure.
For example, bioinformatics researchers will use the system to leverage
robotic motion-planning algorithms for computer-aided drug design.

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"Scientists and researchers can scout the design space on
smaller departmental clusters before moving to massive ones for final
production runs. Linux is a
registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. In addition , SilverStorm's
software provided optimized performance when used in conjunction with
our programming interfaces," said Dr.

PRESS RELEASE New Rice Research System Will Feature a Cray XD1 Supercomputer With 672 AMD Opteron Cores

The system will initially support 32
faculty investigators and 150 graduate and undergraduate students.

Supercomputers contain many processors and often take up entire rooms.

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The Cray XD1 supercomputer leverages Direct Connect Architecture, the AMD
Opteron HyperTransport technology and innovative memory controller
features to provide high-bandwidth, low-latency links between processors
and memory. "Rice has an excellent
reputation around the world, and we are energized by the opportunity to
build our largest Cray XD1 supercomputer for their very demanding
scientific applications. For a discussion of these and other risks, see
"Factors That Could Affect Future Results" in Cray's most recent Quarterly
Report on Form 10-Q filed with the SEC.

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com or contact us at
sales@lstc. In addition, Rice University will equip its
Cray XD1 supercomputer with field -programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) to allow
their researchers to explore possibilities for accelerating applications
using reconfigurable computing techniques."

"The Cray XD1 system will also significantly reduce our total cost of
operation due to its higher density, superior heat dissipation and lower
power consumption," Odegard said.
Building on years of experience in designing, developing, marketing and
servicing the world's most advanced supercomputers, Cray offers a
comprehensive portfolio of HPC systems that deliver unrivaled sustained
performance on a wide range of applications.com for more
information. These include the technical
challenges of developing high-performance computing systems, the successful
porting of application programs to Cray computer systems, reliance on
third -party suppliers and Cray's ability to keep up with rapid
technological change.

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About Scyld Software

Scyld Software, a subsidiary of Penguin Computing, develops the industry
leading Scyld Beowulf Linux clustering software, a commercial-grade
cluster solution tailored for high performance computing. Performance benchmark results show that LS-DYNA
performed up to 50% faster when deployed on clusters using
SilverStorm's InfiniBand network technology versus Gigabit Ethernet.

www. The AMD64-based Cray XD1
system supports a broad range of 32- and 64-bit HPC applications on AMD
Opteron single- or dual-core processors.

AMD, AMD Opteron, HyperTransport and combinations thereof are trademarks of
Advanced Micro Devices , Inc.

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SilverStorm Technologies and LSTC Inc. Bring Power of High Performance Networking to Finite Element Analysis Simulations

"We have
found that SilverStorm's implementation of InfiniBand excels both in
performance and robustness, and this translates to great performance
and reliability for applications like LS-DYNA.

"We're excited that Rice University has selected the Cray XD1 supercomputer
as the centerpiece for its research computing program," said Peter Ungaro,
president and chief executive officer of Cray. Computer scientists will
test new programming tools, compilers and system software for
high-performance computers.

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(formerly InfiniCon Systems), the
leader in end-to-end networking for high performance business
computing, and Livermore Software Technology Corporation (LSTC), the
developers of the LS-DYNA finite element analysis program, today
announced certification of LS -DYNA with SilverStorm's high-speed
InfiniBand-based networking technology."

About SilverStorm

SilverStorm is the leader in end-to-end networking for high
performance business computing . Experts in architecting innovative
networking hardware and software products that dramatically improve
cluster performance and value, we deliver high quality, reliable,
scalable solutions combined with unparalleled service.
The 28-chassis machine is the largest Cray XD1 system purchased to date . "Cray's XD1 supercomputer takes full advantage
of AMD's true dual-core technology and Direct Connect Architecture,
providing customers with systems that excel at some of the most demanding
applications in use today. There are certain
factors that could cause Cray's execution plans to differ materially from
those anticipated by the statements above.