Level 5 Networks to Discuss the Future of High Performance Ethernet at Sun High Performance Computing Consortium USA 2005

Level 5 Networks:

WHAT: Level 5 Networks, a leading developer of high-speed server interconnect solutions, and one of its customers will discuss the future of High Performance Ethernet at Sun High Performance Computing Consortium USA 2005. Dr. Steve Pope, founder, CTO and vice president software architecture for Level 5 Networks, and Dr. Phil Williams, a Level 5 customer and Advanced Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham, UK, will be jointly presenting at Sun HPC Consortium USA 2005. Dr. Pope and Dr. Williams will outline the Level 5 Networks approach to the challenges facing researchers involved in drug discovery and development. They will examine how advances in Ethernet technology can be applied to accelerate high-performance computing clusters and speed research. These performance gains benefit companies in a variety of ways, including more rapid product development, improved time-to-revenue for new products, and improved ROI on invested capital.

WHY: Industries across the board are increasingly relying on compute-heavy tasks, from rapid customer facing web transactions to genome simulations that require millions of calculations. Such a heavy workload has taken its toll on today's networks, bogging down Ethernet connections, causing adapter architectures to become a performance bottleneck. To address this problem, Level 5 Networks developed EtherFabric, the only standards complaint interconnect solution that meets the performance requirements of the high performance cluster computing marketplace.

WHERE: "Protein Folding-The Holy Grail of Biological Research"
Sunday November 13, 2005
11:15 a.m. -- 11:45 a.m. PST
Bell Harbor International Conference Center, Seattle, Washington

"Microseconds Matter-Innovations in High Performance Ethernet"
Sunday, November 13, 2005
1:45 p.m. -- 2:15 p.m. PST
Bell Harbor International Conference Center, Seattle, Washington

For more information or to request an interview with the speakers or to discuss these trends in more detail, please contact Anna Greulich at anna@eastwick.com.

About Level 5 Networks

Level 5 Networks accelerates applications performance, liberates server compute power and elevates business productivity. By optimizing the effectiveness of the existing hardware and software infrastructure, Level 5 Networks maximizes the return on investment in High Performance Computing Clusters and Grids. Accelerating the performance of networked-applications makes enterprises more productive.

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