Xframe Meets Industry's High Performance Demands with Latest Customer Win

Pittsburgh, PA — November 8, 2004 — Today at SC2004, the world's leading conference on high performance computing, Neterion announced that Cray Inc. (CRAY-Nasdaq) has selected Neterion's Xframe® 10 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter Card for platform connectivity for the Cray XT3™ supercomputer that is designed for record-setting scalability. The Xframe adapters play a key role in delivering high bandwidth, low latency external connectivity between the Cray XT3 supercomputer and other computing platforms in networked environments.

"We are very pleased to support the high interconnectivity requirements for all systems ranging from the enterprise to critically important projects like the "Red Storm"-based Cray XT3 supercomputer," said Dave Zabrowski, President & CEO of Neterion. "Neterion's continued commitment to meet industry demands in High Performance Computing (HPC) environments is driving the adoption of 10 Gigabit Ethernet technology in numerous networked server and storage markets."

Cray has already made its first Cray XT3 shipment to Sandia National Laboratories. The supercomputer's architecture, co-designed with Sandia as part of the $90 million "Red Storm" system contract, delivers scalable application performance across a range of configurations. Other announced Cray XT3 customers include Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center.

"Demonstrated performance, reliability and availability were key drivers that led us to select Xframe for the critical connectivity demands for this project," stated Susan Coatney, Cray's director of I/O development. "We expect that Xframe and 10 Gigabit Ethernet will continue playing an important role in our ongoing work with Sandia and other Cray XT3 customers."

When fully installed, "Red Storm" will have peak performance of more than 40 teraflops (trillions of calculations per second) and is expected to be at least seven times more powerful on real-world applications than Sandia's current ASCI Red supercomputer. The "Red Storm" architecture on which the Cray XT3 system is based scales from 200 to 30,000 processors and up to 144 teraflops.

About Neterion, Inc.
Founded in 2001, Neterion Inc. has locations in Cupertino, California and Ottawa, Canada. Neterion delivers 10 Gigabit Ethernet hardware & software solutions that enable OEMs to solve their customers' high-end networking problems. The company's line of Xframe® products is based on Neterion-developed technologies that deliver new levels of performance, availability and reliability in the datacenter. Xframe and Xframe II include full IPv4 and IPv6 support, and comprehensive stateless offloads that preserve the integrity of current TCP/IP implementations without "breaking the stack." Xframe drivers are available for all major Operating Systems, including Microsoft Windows, Linux, Hewlett-Packard's HP-UX, IBM's AIX, Sun's Solaris and SGI's Irix. Formerly known as S2io, the company changed its name to Neterion in January 2005.

Further information on the company can be found at http://www.neterion.com/

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