FREMONT, Calif. — November 17, 2008 — Panasas, Inc., the global leader in parallel storage solutions, received five HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards at this year’s Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards, announced by HPCwire publisher Diane Lieberman at the HPCwire booth at the SuperComputing 2008 Conference (SC08). Among the different awards received, Panasas’ ActiveStor was named as the Readers' Choice for best HPC storage product.

The coveted HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards are determined through online polling of the global HPCwire audience, along with a rigorous selection process involving HPCwire editors and industry luminaries. The awards are an annual feature of the publication and constitute prestigious recognition from the HPC community. These annual awards kick off the SC08 conference, which showcases high performance computing, networking, storage, and data analysis.

"Every year, it is our pleasure to survey our readers in order to determine which HPC-related companies, product and technologies are making the biggest impacts in mind-share within the HPC community,” said Diane Lieberman, publisher of HPCwire. "The HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards send a strong message to the recipients that those in the global HPC community recognize their work, and consider their efforts meritorious. Our congratulations go out to Panasas and the rest of the winners.”

Panasas received honors in the following categories:

• Editors' Choice Top Supercomputing Achievement: Roadrunner, Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Readers' Choice Best HPC Storage Product or Technology: Panasas ActiveStor
• Readers' Choice Top 5 Vendors to Watch in 2009
• Readers' Choice Top Collaboration between Government and Industry: Roadrunner, Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Readers' Choice Top Supercomputing Achievement: Roadrunner, Los Alamos National Laboratory

“Parallel storage is quickly being adopted globally as Panasas’ products have been installed in more than 30 countries across six continents,” said Randy Strahan, chief executive officer, Panasas, Inc. “This recognition confirms Panasas’ role as a leader in the parallel storage space and illustrates our commitment to provide the most complete, scalable and production-ready parallel storage platform available.”

Panasas’ parallel storage systems address the needs of a broad spectrum of organizations from those heavily invested in research and product development utilizing design, modeling and visualization applications, to companies dependent on computational simulation and analysis, like those in the oil & gas, aerospace and automotive sectors. The ActiveStor product family includes the ActiveStor 6000 and 4000 parallel storage clusters, and the new ActiveStor 200, the industry’s first parallel second-tier storage solution. All ActiveStor products include the third-generation Panasas ActiveScale 3.2 operating environment that is based on the patented object-based PanFS™ parallel file system, enabling customers to maximize application and workflow performance, while reducing the total cost of ownership in the storage infrastructure.

About Panasas

Panasas, Inc., the global leader in parallel storage solutions, helps commercial, government and academic organizations accelerate their time to results leading to real world breakthroughs that improve people’s lives. Panasas’ high-performance storage systems enable customers to maximize the benefits of Linux clusters by eliminating the storage bottleneck created with legacy network storage technologies. Panasas ActiveStor Parallel Storage Clusters, in conjunction with the ActiveScale® Operating Environment and PanFS™ parallel file system, offer the most comprehensive portfolio of storage solutions for High Performance Computing (HPC) environments. Panasas is headquartered in Fremont, California. For more information, please visit www.panasas.com.

Panasas, ActiveScale, DirectFLOW and PanFS are trademarks or registered trademarks of Panasas, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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