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June 04, 2009

NextIO, NVIDIA Partner to Advance CUDA Development

Partnership enables fully supported, prepackaged NVIDIA Quadro and Tesla GPUs in a single chassis; maximizes GPU scalability and application flexibility

AUSTIN, Texas, June 4 - NextIO, the premier provider of next-generation I/O solutions, and NVIDIA, the inventor of the GPU, today announced a partnership designed to accelerate CUDA development and deployment using NextIO Adaptive Connect PCIe chassis and management software. NextIO's technology allows servers to take full advantage of two or more GPUs at PCIe speeds, enabling the application of multi-GPU solutions to high-performance compute problems.

The relationship provides customers with a broader set of solutions for developing multi-GPU applications on a single platform. The NextIO management framework allows servers to be mapped across PCIe up to 10 GPUs simultaneously. Server connections can be changed "on the fly" based on development or application demands.

NextIO will deliver pre-packaged GPU solutions to customers requiring a fully supported and robust CUDA development and deployment platform utilizing NVIDIA Tesla and Quadro GPU products.

"Our customers in the oil and gas, medical imaging, and simulation markets have been demanding low- cost, high-performance GPU solutions from NextIO as a means to scale their compute applications to 50 percent or greater workloads," said K.C. Murphy, CEO, NextIO. "Our partnership with NVIDIA will provide turnkey supported NVIDIA solutions to those customers looking for scale-out solutions."

"Our partnership with NextIO enables customers to realize better economies of scale in a pre-packaged GPU solution," says Jeff Brown, general manager of professional solutions at NVIDIA. "Now professionals developing and deploying applications on NVIDIA Quadro and Tesla GPUs are no longer constrained to one or two GPUs per server, allowing more extensible GPU solutions."

About NextIO

Founded in 2003, NextIO, Inc. is the leader in next-generation I/O virtualization solutions for today's dynamic datacenter in a variety of industries including enterprise, telecommunications, digital media and financial services. With its innovative Adaptive Connect platform, NextIO offers the unique ability to virtualize I/O technology on any server, operating system, hypervisor and storage architecture. Leveraging PCI Express, NextIO offers true I/O virtualization for any end-point technology. Adaptive Connect delivers unprecedented rack-level scalability, with I/O and server resources that can be scaled independently for 50-70 percent savings in capital, power, and cooling. NextIO's any-to-any I/O connectivity boosts performance and reliability while streamlining IT deployment, simplifying administration and reducing costs. For more information, visit www.nextio.com.

About NVIDIA

NVIDIA (Nasdaq: NVDA) is the world leader in visual computing technologies and the inventor of the GPU, a high-performance processor which generates breathtaking, interactive graphics on workstations, personal computers, game consoles, and mobile devices. NVIDIA serves the entertainment and consumer market with its GeForce graphics products, the professional design and visualization market with its Quadro graphics products, and the high-performance computing market with its Tesla computing solutions products. NVIDIA is headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., and has offices throughout Asia, Europe, and the Americas. For more information, visit www.nvidia.com. For more information on NVIDIA Quadro solutions, visit www.nvidia.com/quadro.

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Source: NextIO, Inc.

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