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Liquid Computing Selects Neterion 10 GigE Adapter for Interconnect Driven Server

Ottawa, Canada & Los Altos, CA – November 23, 2005 – Liquid Computing Corp., a developer of a new class of scalable servers for high performance computing applications, announced today it will embed Neterion's Xframe® 10 Gigabit Ethernet network adapter into LiquidIQ™, the industry’s first Interconnect Driven Server (IDS). The integration will enable Liquid Computing’s new server architecture to optimize I/O performance and eliminate bandwidth bottlenecks.

Liquid Computing customers require uncompromised communications bandwidth and I/O to carry out high performance computing (HPC) functions across a wide range of industries such as scientific research and development, upstream energy exploration and biosciences research. Scaling out network bandwidth is critical for these applications. The combination of LiquidIQ and Xframe will deliver uncompromising computing performance for the HPC and enterprise markets.

“Several early users of LiquidIQ have expressed a keen interest in dynamically allocating large scale I/O throughput across our system,” said Mike Kemp, CTO of Liquid Computing. “The only cost-effective way to bring terabits of I/O capacity was to embed a high performance, dependable 10 GbE network interface card directly into the LiquidIQ I/O module.”

When Neterion’s Xframe adapter is combined with Liquid Computing’s unique architecture, the result is scalable bandwidth, lower latency and higher I/O performance. The fact that Xframe has recorded a number of record-breaking performance demonstrations was another important factor in its being selected as the 10 GbE partner.

“Liquid Computing's Interconnect Driven Server architecture and Xframe's 10 GbE adapters are an ideal combination for end users who are seeking a means to deploy HPC resources in 'real time' based on the application they are running,” said Dave Zabrowski, president and CEO of Neterion. “And a further benefit is the fact that this solution does not require a proprietary network, but can run over a company's existing infrastructure.”

LiquidIQ’s performance functionality is a direct result of the combination of its IDS technology. The IQInterconnect™ and associated I/O Modules can be provisioned to achieve a range of I/O bandwidth that has the capability to grow to 200 Gb/s per LiquidIQ chassis or 2.4 Tb/s of I/O across the entire system. This bandwidth comes with built in quality of service control that guarantees the availability of I/O resources to specific applications and processes.

About Liquid Computing

Liquid Computing Corporation is first to deliver a new class of computer system called LiquidIQ™ to meet the needs of scalable computing users within Enterprise High Performance Computing and Software as a Service markets. LiquidIQ™ is an Interconnect Driven Server that delivers a set of managed computing and communications resources. It can be configured with software commands into one or several cluster configurations, shared memory or cache coherent server regions at best lifecycle economics and uncompromising performance, scalability and availability. For more information, visit www.liquidcomputing.com.

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 solve customers’ high-end networking problems. The Xframe® line of products is based on Neterion-developed technologies that deliver new levels of performance, availability and reliability in the datacenter. Xframe, Xframe II and Xframe E 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. Neterion has raised over $42M in funding with its latest C round taking place in June 2004. Formerly known as S2io, the company changed its name to Neterion in January 2005. Further information on the company can be found at www.neterion.com.

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Robert Saric
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Liquid Computing
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