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Verari Systems, previously RackSaver, the premier developer of powerful, platform-independent computer systems, announced today the world's fastest four-way x86 server, providing customers with a powerful platform for deploying computationally-intensive applications in EDA, oil & gas, entertainment, financial trading, automotive and aerospace. The Verari Systems QuatreX-64(TM) four-way server powered by the AMD Opteron(TM) 850 processor leads the latest competitive benchmark results published on May 19, 2004 by the Standard Performance Evaluation Corp.(SPEC) on www.spec.org. The comparison is based on the best performing four-CPU x86 servers running the industry standard IA-32 instruction set currently shipping from Dell, Hewlett Packard and Verari Systems. SPEC CPU2000 is an industry standard CPU-intensive benchmark suite designed to provide a comparative measure of compute-intensive performance across a wide range of computer systems using real applications. The QuatreX-64 achieved a CINT2000 Rate of 63.4 base and 68.5 peak, and a CFP2000 Rate of 47.2 base and 50.5 peak. QuatreX-64's CFP2000 Rate result is 40% faster than any other four-way x86 server tested. The CFP2000 Rate benchmark is focused on floating point application performance common in technical applications, making the QuatreX-64 particularly well suited for these applications. The QuatreX-64's AMD Opteron 850 processors combine raw CPU performance with AMD's Direct Connect Architecture that reduces bottlenecks by directly connecting I/O to the CPU for massive throughput. This architecture also directly connects CPUs to each other with a scalable interconnect that delivers linear symmetrical multiprocessing performance as processors are added to the server. "The groundbreaking benchmark results of the QuatreX-64 point to outstanding application performance," said David Driggers, CEO of Verari Systems. "The QuatreX-64's flexible design based on AMD's Direct Connect Architecture extends performance beyond clock rate and instruction size to I/O and scalability, which are much more meaningful in the real world." SPEC(R) and the benchmark names SPECINT2000(R) and SPECFP2000(R) are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corp. Competitive benchmark results stated above reflect results published on www.spec.org as of May 19, 2004. The comparison presented above is based on the best performing 4-CPU x86 servers running the industry standard IA-32 Instruction Set currently shipping from Dell, Hewlett Packard and Verari Systems. For the latest SPECCPU2000(R) benchmark results, visit www.spec.org/cpu2000/results/res2004q2/.