PLYMOUTH, MA -- Microway, a leading manufacturer of custom configured Linux Beowulf Clusters, today announced it is the vendor of choice by the University of Maine for a 202 node cluster to be delivered in December, 2001. Jake Ward, Director of the Department of Industrial Cooperation at the University of Maine at Orono, commented, “Our committee chose Microway over other vendors because of their reputation in the HPC community for delivering high quality, fully integrated clusters. Our decision was based also on their extensive technical expertise with Myrinet, demonstrated financial stability and ability to quickly deliver the solution we required.” “As a respected leader in the Supercomputing market, Microway understands the need of customers for professional on site installation, outstanding service and technical support, and a vendor’s ability to provided state of the art technology,” said Ann Fried, Chairperson of Microway. “ This fully integrated cluster includes 202 nodes of diskless Pentium III towers connected by a 256 port fibre channel based Myrinet switch. The cluster is controlled by redundant master nodes with RAID 5 storage systems. For more information visit www.microway.com