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Woven Systems Founder and CTO Bert Tanaka Featured Speaker at SC07 Exhibitor Forum

Presents Performance Results of InfiniBand and 10 GE Cluster Based on Sandia National Laboratories CBENCH HPC Benchmarking Suite

Santa Clara, CA - November 8, 2007 - Santa Clara, Calif.-based Woven Systems, Inc., the leading innovator of Ethernet Fabric solutions for data centers and high-performance computing clusters, today announced that Founder and CTO Bert Tanaka will be the featured speaker next week at the SC07 exhibitor forum at the Reno-Sparks Convention Center, Reno, Nevada.

Presentation Overview:

Network traffic congestion is a common reason for performance and scaling degradation in statically routed HPC interconnect fabrics such as IP ECMP, InfiniBand, or Ethernet LAG. Woven Systems Active Congestion Management technology solves this problem for multi-stage, multi-path 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GE) fabrics by detecting congestion through one-way latency and jitter measurements, and dynamically re-routing traffic around congestion so as to fully utilize all of the capacity of the fabric.

Woven will present results that compare the performance of an InfiniBand and 10 GE cluster using Sandia's CBENCH HPC benchmarking suite. These results demonstrate the importance of dynamically re-routing traffic to avoid congestion and improve throughput in large HPC interconnect fabrics

About Woven Systems
Woven Systems is an innovative network infrastructure provider that offers the industry's first massively scalable Ethernet Fabric switching solutions for data centers and HPC clusters. Fully compliant with Ethernet standards, Woven redefines network performance and efficiency with Active Congestion Management for balancing traffic, operational simplicity, and significantly lower power consumption. The Woven solutions deliver the scalability of InfiniBand™, the reliability of Fibre Channel and the simplicity of Ethernet. For more information, visit Woven Systems on the Web at www.wovensystems.com.