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posted on 01 May 2008 09:48

ALISO VIEJO, Calif., April 30, 2008 – QLogic Corp. (NASDAQ:QLGC), a leader in networking for storage and high performance computing (HPC), today announced that ESI Group, a world leader in software for the numerical simulation of prototype and manufacturing process engineering, has joined the QLogic®  HPCtrack™ programme.

The addition of ESI Group to the HPCtrack programme will help to expand the growing QLogic HPC ecosystem which now includes more than 50 members. The QLogic HPCtrack programme provides its alliance partners with access to the resources they need to create, test and certify their solutions’ interoperability with QLogic storage and high performance clustering technologies. The programme is designed to provide the building blocks for partner companies to certify and optimize storage area network (SAN) and HPC solutions.

“The extremely low latency and high bandwidth of QLogic InfiniBand solutions make it possible for ESI Group customers to provide faster ‘times-to-solution’ with more complex models,” said Raymond Ni, ESI Group Computational Structure Mechanics Development Director. “The high performance networking infrastructure of the QLogic HPC ecosystem will allow users to include significantly more details in their models, minimize assumptions and reduce turnaround time.”

“The addition of ESI Group greatly expands the QLogic HPC ecosystem for manufacturing,” said Joe Kimpler, director of business alliances, QLogic Corp. “ESI Group’s software suite expands the QLogic HPC ecosystem for manufacturing by providing an entire application suite that realistically simulates a product's behaviour during certification testing. This helps companies to fine tune their manufacturing processes, and allows them to evaluate the operational or accidental environment's impact on product usage.”

QLogic High Performance Computing Solutions -- Second to None

QLogic offers a comprehensive end-to-end product portfolio of HPC solutions which includes multi-protocol fabric directors, edge fabric switches, host channel adapters (HCAs), and a complete software suite to install, operate, and maintain high performance interconnect fabrics. Delivering the industry's highest message rate, lowest MPI latency and highest effective bandwidth, QLogic InfiniBand HCAs enable MPI and TCP applications to scale to thousands of nodes with unprecedented price-performance. The most comprehensive and flexible interconnect fabric solutions on the market, QLogic InfiniBand switches incorporate the industry's only fabric management tools that enable an administrator to install and boot an InfiniBand fabric in minutes, helping to satisfy the growing demand for high performance computational clusters and grids.

HPCtrack Programme Enhances Ecosystem Collaboration on Interoperability and Performance

The HPCtrack programme is designed to provide faster access to new InfiniBand technology, to certify the interoperability of ecosystem products and to provide a basis for closer collaboration on performance optimization of multi-vendor solutions. In addition to ESI Group, other HPCtrack members include 3 Leaf Systems, Altair, AutoDesk, CD-adapco, Clustercorp, Corning Cabling Systems, Data Direct Networks, FalconStor, Isilon Systems, Livermore Software Technology Corporation, LSI, Network Equipment Technologies, Panasas, Quantum, RAID Incorporated, RNA Networks, SCALI, SI-Cortex, SIMULIA, Terascala, Texas Memory Systems and Zarlink.

Partners interested in more details about the HPCtrack programme should contact Joe Yaworski at joseph.yaworski@qlogic.com.

About ESI Group

ESI Group is a world-leading supplier and pioneer of digital simulation software for prototyping and manufacturing processes that take into account the physics of materials. ESI Group has developed an extensive suite of coherent, industry-oriented applications to realistically simulate a product’s behavior during testing, to fine-tune manufacturing processes in accordance with desired product performance, and to evaluate the environment’s impact on product performance. ESI Group’s offer represents a unique collaborative solution with an open virtual engineering environment known as the Virtual Try-Out Space, enabling virtual prototypes to be improved in a continuous and collaborative manner while eliminating the need for physical prototypes during product development. The company employs over 700 high-level specialists worldwide covering more than 30 countries. ESI Group is listed in compartment C of Euronext Paris.  For further information, visit www.esi-group.com.

About QLogic

QLogic is a leading supplier of high performance storage networking solutions, which include the controller chips, host adapters and fabric switches that are the backbone of storage networks for most Global 2000 corporations. The company delivers a broad and diverse portfolio of products that includes Fibre Channel HBAs, blade server embedded Fibre Channel switches, Fibre Channel stackable switches, iSCSI HBAs and iSCSI routers. The company is also a leading supplier of InfiniBand switches and InfiniBand host channel adapters for the emerging high performance computing market. QLogic products are delivered to small-to-medium businesses and large enterprises around the world via its channel partner community. QLogic products are also powering solutions from leading companies like Cisco, Dell, EMC, Hitachi Data Systems, HP, IBM, Network Appliance and Sun Microsystems. QLogic is a member of the S&P 500 Index.

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