National Center for Supercomputing Applications Customer of DDN

DataDirect Networks, Inc. announced that the National Center for Supercomputing
Applications (NCSA) has deployed 700TB of DDN SFA’ storage as the
backbone of iForge, an NCSA supercomputer which is dedicated to and built for industrial applications.

Commercial partners leveraging the system include Boeing, Caterpillar, GE, John
Deere, Procter & Gamble, and Rolls Royce.

"In a short time, iForge has enabled
leading manufacturing enterprises to harness the power of Big Data and innovate
across their product portfolios," said Jeff Denworth, DDN VP of
Marketing. "The innovation fostered
by iForge will not only benefit society, it also is a springboard for economic
advancement for leading manufacturing organizations within the US and abroad.
We are pleased to be part of this important project."

Deployed in 2011, iForge is a cornerstone of NCSA’s Private Sector Program,
which has engaged with more than 1/3 of the Fortune 50 over the past 25 years.
Program participants receive advanced technical consulting from leading HPC
applications specialists and research faculty at the University of Illinois,
who have helped to make NCSA one of the world’s best-known supercomputing
centers.

"Private organizations everywhere
have realized that supercomputing can fuel incredible innovation, but it is not
economical for companies to build and maintain such expert resources at even
modest scale in-house when they work on a project basis," said Merle
Giles, director of the NCSA Private Sector Program. "iForge combines expert human and machine resources to accelerate our
commercial partners’ research, development, and deployment efforts."

DDN has supplied NCSA with storage technologies since 2002.
The company recently announced its DDN SFA 12K storage array was selected to
build a system delivering 100GB/s of storage performance for archiving data on
NCSA’s upcoming Blue Waters supercomputer, which when completed is expected to
be one of the world’s most powerful and productive computing systems.