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Verari Announces Fastest Four-Way x86 Server

Verari Systems, previously RackSaver, a developer of powerful, platform- independent computer systems, announced 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 four-way server powered by the AMD Opteron 850 processor leads the latest competitive benchmark results published on May 19, 2004 by the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (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."