Visit Ciprico at SC07 at Booth 3248

Ciprico RAIDCore Exceeds 2.2 Gigabytes per Second RAID

Performance on Storage Server at SC07

RAIDCore Spanning Provides Superior Storage Capacity and Performance for

High Performance Computing Storage Applications

Reno, NV, November 12, 2007 – Ciprico Inc. (NASDAQ: CPCI), a leading provider

of intelligent storage software, solutions and appliances, will be demonstrating their

RAIDCore host bus adapter (HBA) in a storage server capable of exceeding 2.2

Gigabytes per second of throughput at this year’s SC07 Conference. The 24-drive

array using Hitachi Global Storage Technologies’ Ultrastar™ SAS hard disk drives

spans across three economical RAIDCore SAS/SATA HBAs, enabling sustained

high performance operation, significantly higher capacity, and superior data

management. This demonstration will occur at the SC07 High Performance

Computing Conference at Booth 3248 on November 12 – 16, 2007 in Reno, NV.

High performance computing (HPC) is often gated by the disk I/O subsystem’s ability

to process tremendous amounts of data at sufficient speeds. Using RAIDCore

spanning technology, multiple RAIDCore HBAs can be aggregated to build single,

flat RAID arrays of up to 32 Terabytes resulting in greater performance, superior

management, and improved storage density, while eliminating the I/O bottleneck.

This contrasts with other storage HBAs that either aggregate all traffic through a

single controller creating a bottleneck both on the PCI Express bus and in the

controller’s onboard CPU; or force users to stripe across RAID storage arrays using

the operating system, causing performance and management issues, as well as

decreased storage utilization.

“The RAIDCore HBA solution from Ciprico is ideal for our high performance

computing customers doing massive simulations and demanding both tremendous

capacity and superior performance,” said Dominic Daninger, Vice President of

Engineering for Nor-Tech, a Ciprico customer. “Their highly power-efficient

architectures also enable our products to provide energy-efficient, high performance

storage that operates within standard AC power parameters.”

“The Hitachi Ultrastar 15K300 is a performance leader designed for use in the most

demanding enterprise storage environments,” added Currie Munce, Vice President,

Enterprise HDD Business Group, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies. “The

combination of Hitachi Ultrastar drives with Ciprico RAIDCore HBAs provides endusers

and system builders an outstanding combination of performance, reliability and

power efficiency.”

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“The tremendous amount of data generated and processed in HPC environments

has historically demanded very elaborate, power-hungry and expensive storage

architectures,” concluded Steve Merrifield, President and Chief Executive Officer for

Ciprico. “Using a single server and Ciprico’s new PCI Express expansion storage

box, RAIDCore transcends these historic problems by simplifying the management

of massive amounts of storage capacity; providing stellar performance; reducing

power consumption, congestion, and latency; and decreasing the overall system

cost.”

Individuals interested in viewing a live demonstration may visit Ciprico at booth 3248

at the SC07 High Performance Computing Conference on November 12 – 16, 2007

in Reno, NV.

Platform Setup

The platform used in this performance test is described below:

- 1 RC5252-08 RAIDCore SAS/SATA PCI Express HBA

- 1 RC5152-08 RAIDCore SAS/SATA PCI-X HBA

- Ciprico MV5108SR MediaVault External PCIe storage array

- 24 Hitachi Ultrastar 15K300 147GB SAS Hard Disk Drives

- MSI dual quad-core Intel processor motherboard

- IOMeter running RAID 0, 16 outstanding IO

About Ciprico

Ciprico Inc. (NASDAQ: CPCI) is a leading provider of intelligent storage software,

solutions and appliances for business to enterprise class IT servers, professional

workstations and digital media workflows. As a pioneer in the emerging software

based virtualized RAID market, the company’s RAIDCore product line has

demonstrated its superior reliability, performance, low power and scalability. More

information can be found at www.ciprico.com or by contacting

RCSales@ciprico.com.