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Liquid Computing Corp., developer of a new class of scalable server for high performance computing, announced today that the Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils (CCLRC) will participate in the LiquidIQ beta program. The Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils is one of Europe's largest multidisciplinary research organizations supporting scientists and engineers across the UK and world-wide with a wide array of high performance computing infrastructure. In an effort to push the boundaries of scientific research, it has elected to conduct detailed beta testing of Liquid Computing's Interconnect Driven Server, LiquidIQ. "CCLRC is at the forefront of scientific, engineering and technological research," said Dr. Mike Ashworth, Head of Advanced Research Computing in the Computational Science and Engineering Department. "When we see major technological advancement in the tools of our trade, we conduct rigorous tests to assess the potential benefit to our customers. The underlying LiquidIQ system architecture gives us reason to believe that key scientific application codes could run dramatically faster and more cost effectively, thus helping us solve the most challenging scientific and engineering problems.” The underlying importance of high performance computing technology has never been greater. The US Council on Competitiveness and Canada’s Natural Research Council (C3.ca) have sustained initiatives focused on advancing innovation, research and development through investment in high performance computing. “We are pleased to see the research community taking an interest in LiquidIQ” said Brian Hurley, CEO of Liquid Computing. “Since the inception of the company, we knew our product was going to have a dramatic impact on scientific research and innovation. We are excited about working with key industry leaders such as CCLRC.” This announcement formally launches the LiquidIQ beta program that will roll out in Q1 of 2006. Several industry benchmarks and user specified tests will be conducted with each beta program participant. “Our aim is to exceed all customer expectations with respect to performance, scalability, flexibility and platform availability,” said Mike Kemp, CTO of Liquid Computing. “Given our experience building high performance telecommunications hardware, we expect to bring stunning results to the computing sector.”