Intel Developer Forum, San Francisco – September 26, 2006 - ClearSpeed Technology (LSE: CSD), the only supplier of coprocessor acceleration technology exclusively focused on the high precision, high performance and low power requirements of the high performance and technical computing market, today announced breakthrough performance for a dual socket industry standard system. Two ClearSpeed Advance™ boards in a dual socket Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® processor-based server equipped with two 3GHz Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® 5160 processors delivered 102.6 GFLOPS on the LINPACK benchmark compared with an already impressive 38 GFLOPS delivered by the base system.

In addition to delivering breakthrough performance the ClearSpeed technology is remarkably power efficient, delivering the additional 64.6 GFLOPS of performance while consuming only 50 Watts of additional power.

“Performance combined with energy efficiency is a critical consideration for the entire industry, and especially so in high performance computing,” said Jim Pappas, director of initiative marketing for Intel Corporation. “Specialist suppliers such as ClearSpeed Technology that work with Intel to provide breakthrough capabilities, play an important role in providing the optimum solution to our most demanding customers.”

At the Intel Developer Forum, ClearSpeed will also be previewing future technology capabilities that include a demonstration of the prototype PCI Express (PCIe) accelerator board. Working with Intel’s IHV optimization lab ClearSpeed engineers have validated the device driver efficiency for PCIe and realized the performance benefits that PCIe delivers when compared to the previous PCI-X specification.

“We’ve been extremely impressed with support given by Intel’s IHV optimization lab,” said Con Bradley, the ClearSpeed Software engineer responsible for PCIe device drivers. “With Intel’s assistance we have not only validated and improved our performance but gained an understanding of PCIe that will save several weeks of engineering effort.”