FLOTHERM Case Study

11 Aug 2005 12:23

Flomerics Group PLC11 August 2005 For Immediate Release 11 August 2005 Flomerics Group PLC ("Flomerics" or the "Company") FLOTHERM Case Study : 'A Thermal Management Challenge' Thermal Simulation Helps Silicon Graphics Keep Its New Supercomputer Cool Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) faced severe cooling challenges when they developedtheir new SGI(R) Altix(R) 3700 Bx2 supercomputer, which supports 64 Intel(R) Itanium(R)processors per rack. SGI Altix supports more than 2.5x the memory bandwidth of the nearest RISC-based system. Before they could bring this product to market, SGI engineers had to figure outa way to keep all the components cool. They turned to Flomerics' Flothermthermal simulation software, which has over 50% market share in the increasinglycritical area of managing the heat generated by electronic components. Bytrying many different designs in software before a prototype had even beenbuilt, it was possible to determine the ideal design for each of the components.The end result was that the company beat competitors to market with a productwhose impeccable reliability matches its blazing performance. For more information, visit Flomerics' Web site at http://www.flomerics.com This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange