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DataDirect Networks Wins HPCwire's Editors' Choice Award for Best HPC Storage Product

"Every year we survey our readers in order to determine which vendors, products and technologies are making the biggest impact within the HPC community," said Diane Lieberman, publisher of HPCwire. "The HPCwire Editors' Choice Award recognizes those vendors that deliver technology innovation and products of the highest quality, design, and service. We congratulate DDN on this achievement."

The coveted Editors' Choice Awards are determined through online polling of the global HPCwire audience, along with a rigorous selection process involving HPCwire editors and industry luminaries. The awards are an annual feature of the publication, presented at the beginning of the Supercomputing conference, and constitute prestigious recognition from the HPC community.

"It is through ongoing feedback and close collaboration with distinguished HPC clients such as Argonne, Lawrence Livermore, NASA and Oak Ridge that DDN continues to transcend the boundaries of HPC storage technology innovation," said Alex Bouzari, CEO and Co-founder, DDN. "We are honored by this award which recognizes our dedication to excellence and focus on delivering superior, purpose-built solutions with extreme levels of intelligence, designed to solve HPC problems that other vendors simply can't. There is a reason why DDN powers the world's fastest supercomputers, file systems and storage environments and that reason is highlighted ever so clearly today."

About the S2A9900

As DDN's flagship eighth generation S2A platform, the industry-leading S2A9900 provides extreme performance and capacity, with the ability to manage 1.2 petabytes in only two floor tiles and deliver sustained throughput of up to 6 gigabytes per second for both writes and reads, per appliance. In a cluster formation, S2A platforms are delivering over 200 gigabytes per second of throughput in leading HPC environments today.

The S2A9900 enables HPC sites to run multiple applications simultaneously in parallel, whereas conventional, general purpose storage systems force them to run applications sequentially, costing more time, more money and more management personnel. Additionally, the S2A9900 is the only storage platform that writes data as fast as it reads it, with guaranteed QoS, which translates into consistently predictable performance for large content files -- critical for HPC environments.

For more information about the awards, visit http://www.HPCwire.com.

For more information about DDN S2A platforms, visit: http://www.datadirectnet.com/s2a-platform/s2a-platform

About HPCwire

Published by Tabor Communications, HPCwire is the most recognized and accessed news and information site covering the entire ecosystem of High Productivity Computing (HPC). HPCwire is the publication of choice for the global community of business and technology professionals interested in computationally- and data-intensive computing, including infrastructure topics such as software, middleware, hardware, networking, storage, tools and applications. HPCwire delivers exclusive interviews with industry leaders on topics ranging from business and economic issues to advanced and emerging technology directions, all in a timely and easily-accessible Internet format. With a powerful combination of email distribution and web site portal, HPCwire is enjoyed each week by several hundred thousand readers. HPCwire can be found online at http://www.HPCwire.com.

About DataDirect Networks

DataDirect Networks, Inc. (DDN) is the data infrastructure provider for the most extreme, content-intensive environments in the world-including the largest online gaming and music sites, social networking applications developers, photo and video sharing services, high performance computing environments, and more than 400 broadcast and post-production facilities around the globe. With more than 160 petabytes installed worldwide, the company's S2A(TM) (Silicon Storage Architecture(TM)) technology delivers massive throughput, scalable capacity, consistency, efficiency and data integrity for today's extremely competitive and evolving markets. Founded in 1998, DDN serves customers through its global partnerships with Dell, IBM, Sony and other industry leaders; and through its offices inEurope,India, Asia Pacific,Japan and throughout the U.S. For more information, go to http://www.datadirectnet.com or call +1-800-TERABYTE (837-2298).

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