San Jose, Calif. – March 6, 2006, - ClearSpeed Technology (LSE: CSD), a developer of high-performance, low-power, programmable coprocessor solutions, today announced the company is delivering the first shipment of ClearSpeed Advance™ boards to Sun Microsystems to be included in Japan’s largest supercomputer. The cluster is being built for the Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech), is anticipated to be one of the ten largest supercomputers in the world at 85 TeraFLOPS, and is expected to be ranked by the Top500® (http://www.top500.org). ClearSpeed will be contributing 360 Advance boards for the system. Other vendors participating in this system build include AMD, NEC, Sun, and Voltaire. The system is expected to be up and running in Q2 of 2006.

The Tokyo Tech supercomputer, one of the largest university-based clusters ever built, will be used in grand challenge problem solving in a variety of research areas including bio-science, nano-science, environmental and disaster prevention simulations. The supercomputer will also increase the productivity of science and engineering researchers. When the system is completed, it will be accessible by every professor and student at Tokyo Tech, in addition to a wide range of researchers throughout the world.

"Installing this system shows our commitment to increasing supercomputer performance," said Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Tech professor of the Global Scientific Information and Computing Center. Professor Matsuoka is leading the Tokyo Tech build. "By adding more ClearSpeed boards, we can easily reach hundreds of TeraFLOPS at a nominal cost, on top of our existing infrastructure."

“This system will be used to tackle complex problems that require exceptional computing power,” said John Fowler, executive vice president of the Network Systems Group, Sun Microsystems. “ClearSpeed’s Advance boards helped us to meet the high-performance specifications for this project; the company’s technology has been an integral part of the build.

In addition to the ClearSpeed acceleration boards, the system will include Sun Fire™ x64 (x86, 64-bit) servers with more than 10,000 AMD Opteron™ processor cores, NEC and Sun storage technologies
running the Solaris ™ 10 Operating System (OS) and Sun N1™ Grid Engine, and NEC's integration expertise, interconnected by Voltaire InfiniBand Network.

"The Tokyo Institute of Technology is one of the top universities in Japan with high compute-intensive research needs," said Tom Beese, ClearSpeed CEO. “With the shipment of Advance boards, we’re making a significant contribution to the system that will enable these needs to be met.”