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Critical Software and NetEffect today announced a partnership whereby Critical will support NetEffect’s iWARP Ethernet Channel Adapters in their popular WMPI II Message Passing library. This will enable the High Performance Cluster (HPC) community to run compute intensive applications that use MPI for parallel processing over a cluster of Windows or Linux servers, connected by NetEffect cards. NetEffect’s iWARP Ethernet Channel Adapters feature the industry's first full iWARP Ethernet implementation providing 10 Gbps performance. iWARP Ethernet offloads networking processing from the CPUs used in HPC clusters by up to 90%,resulting in increased server productivity and cluster efficiency. WMPI II is a low-latency, high throughput implementation of the MPI-2 message passing standard and is widely used in industry and academia to run modeling software on Windows and Linux clusters. “This development will improve the scalability and performance of the clusters our customers use when running their simulation and forecasting models with WMPI II,” stated Peter Tyndale, Business Development Manager for Critical Software, ”iWARP is coming of age and we’re very pleased to be partnering with a key player in this technology.” “Our collaboration with Critical Software demonstrates our mutual commitment to deliver the highest performance, lowest latency solutions to the HPC community,” said Rick Maule, CEO of NetEffect. “We’re pleased to have Critical Software as one of our strategic partners and look forward to working with them to make industry-standard Ethernet the ideal solution for our customers clustering application requirements.” Support for NetEffect’s iWARP Ethernet Channel Adapters in WMPI II will be available in Q4 2006. An evaluation copy of the software will be available for download fromits Web site.