Dot Hill And Aspen Systems To Showcase High Performance Server Clusters And Storage At Supercomputing 2003

CARLSBAD, Calif. and WHEAT RIDGE, Colo. November 11, 2003 Dot Hill (NASDAQ:HILL) and Aspen Systems will exhibit high performance computing (HPC) solutions at the Supercomputing (SC) 2003 conference at the Phoenix Civic Plaza Convention Center, November 15-21. Aspen Systems will be exhibiting its Beowulf Linux clustering solutions and showcasing Dot Hill's SANnet II storage systems in booth 1513.

"We are pleased to partner with Dot Hill to offer our customers a rugged, reliable storage component for our Beowulf clustering solutions," said Tom Leinberger, vice president of sales for Aspen Systems. "Through our partnership with Dot Hill, we can now provide customers with 24x7x365 customer support for the storage system component of our solutions." A Beowulf cluster can be defined in the broadest sense as any number of systems whose collective processing capabilities are simultaneously applied to a specific technical, scientific or business application. Aspen Systems provides a total Beowulf cluster solution with cluster management software, online configurations and unprecedented support.

An Aspen Systems custom Beowulf cluster delivers supercomputing performance at an affordable price. Aspen Systems Beowulf clusters enable users to access significantly more processing power when compared to today's very expensive supercomputers while providing a greater value for technology investments.

"The SANnet II product line is a good fit for Aspen Systems' Linux-based clustering solutions and its compute-intensive customer base," said Omar Barraza, Dot Hill?s director of marketing. ?Our storage systems will integrate seamlessly into the Beowulf solutions and bring a higher level of reliability to the storage repository for the cluster than previously available."

The SANnet II family of storage systems provides industry-leading 99.9998+ percent uptime in a compact, rugged enclosure. SANnet II brings enterprise class features into the workgroup and virtually eliminates downtime with no single point of failure. The common modular architecture of the SANnet II product family provides seamless scalability for future growth.

All SANnet II products feature hot-swappable, field-replaceable components including drives, controllers, power supplies, fans and event monitoring units. This product line meets MIL-STD-810F standards for the U.S. Department of Defense and is certified to the telecommunications industry NEBS Level 3 standard.

Dot Hill Systems Corp. is a leader in the innovative design and delivery of storage networking solutions to channel partners worldwide. Its products include the SANnet family of storage systems, SANscape storage management software, SANpath storage networking software and professional training, support and service. For more information, visit Dot Hill on the web at www.dothill.com.

Aspen Systems, Inc., a privately held corporation, has been serving the high-performance, technical computing community with expertise in custom computer hardware design, manufacturing and service for over 20 years. Their expertise includes a variety of high-performance technical computing disciplines with emphasis on serving the needs of advanced technical computing users and corporations that use the most demanding applications. Aspen Systems has built their reputation, as a leading provider of Beowulf clustering solutions by offering multiple configurations with a choice of processors and connectivity for specific performance needs. First class technical support and state-of-the-art products allows Aspen Systems to create and support the high-performance solutions that customers in the Weather Modeling, Financial Modeling, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, Bio-tech, and Geophysics Research fields (among other compute-intensive parallel markets) demand. For more information about Aspen Systems, visit their web site at www.aspsys.com.

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