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New ASAP Program Partners To Drive InfiniBand-Based Clustering Solutions To High Performance Computing Markets in Europe and Asia -- InfiniCon Systems, the premier provider of I/O virtualization and clustering solutions for next-generation server networks, announced today that it has expanded its Authorized Solutions Alliance Providers (ASAP) Program, signing partnership agreements with four international companies to market and sell its InfinIOtm family of InfiniBand-based networking solutions. The four additions to InfiniCon’s ASAP channel partner program are Dalco (Switzerland), Melrow Technology (Netherlands), T-Platforms (Russia), and UNIWIDE Technologies (Korea). All of the companies provide clustered server solutions as part of their offerings, targeting a mix of computational and commercial high performance computing (HPC) markets such as aerospace, oil and gas, education, finance, and government. In February 2004, InfiniCon added six ASAP channel partners to significantly extend its reach into the burgeoning HPC market, where the InfiniBand architecture has gained significant momentum as the premier high-speed, low latency interconnect. Against this backdrop, InfiniCon’s InfinIO family has proven to be InfiniBand’s most robust and scalable switching solution, serving as the infrastructure for large production clusters containing as many as 512 dual processor nodes. AMD recently selected InfiniCon to provide a 128-node fabric for the AMD Developer Center to facilitate testing of applications running on Opteron-based clusters. "Our newest ASAP partners have valuable experience in all aspects of cluster design and deployment, and address diverse market opportunities," noted InfiniCon vice president of sales, Bill Maxwell. "The breadth of InfiniCon’s product offerings and our track record in delivering the industry’s most scalable InfiniBand fabrics will empower these companies to provide their customers with the most compelling price/performance solutions available for HPC applications of all sizes." InfiniCon’s ASAP program trains and certifies partnering companies on the functionality and deployment of InfiniCon’s complete family of switching and shared I/O systems, which leverage the high bandwidth (up to 30Gbps) and low latency attributes of InfiniBand to provide a superior networking infrastructure for supporting fabric/grid models of computing. Leveraging the breakthrough advances of the InfiniBand architecture, InfiniCon Systems offers a complete systems solution for enabling data centers to migrate to a fabric/grid model of computing. Our award-winning InfinIO product family provides the dynamic infrastructure required for designing and managing highly scalable, highly available clustered server environments that integrate seamlessly into today’s Fibre Channel and Ethernet networks. For additional information, visit www.infinicon.com, or contact us at info@infinicon.com. DALCO is the European leading supplier of optimized, turnkey commodity parallel computing solutions. The company designs, builds, and support high performance clusters for customer list that includes many leading industry, academic, and government sites. For more information, visit www.dalco.com. Melrow Technology BV is a leading European Value Added distributor (VAD) and provider of High End rack mount fileservers and Storage subsystems, with related services and components, selling through its European network of Value Added Resellers as well directly to corporate end users and government. Visit http://www.melrow.com/. A member of the Mi_roni_ group of companies, T-Platforms was founded in 2002. Over its comparatively short time on the Russian high-technology market, T-Platforms has successfully delivered a range of prestigious projects which includes the provision of servers, clusters and computing nodes. T-Platforms develops and delivers top-of-the-range cluster and server solutions to large and medium-sized businesses as well as to scientific and governmental organizations. Visit http://www.t-platforms.ru/english/. UNIWIDE Technologies Inc., headquartered in Seoul, South Korea, is one of the world's leading manufacturers of server and storage systems. Visit www.uniwide.co.kr.