FREMONT, Calif. — October 29, 2003 — Panasas, Inc., the pioneering leader in object-based storage clustering for scalable Linux clusters, and the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), today announced that LANL was named a winner of the Fall 2003 "Best Practices in Storage Award," at the Storage Networking World (SNW) conference, held this week in Orlando, Fla.

In partnership with Panasas, LANL received the "Innovation and Promise" award for their vision in implementing object-based storage to rearchitect their high-performance computing environment. LANL foresaw the need for a standards-based, highly scalable I/O architecture to match the increasing parallelism and compute capabilities of commodity cluster computer systems. The Panasas solution enables LANL to architect a balanced supercomputing system capable of delivering 100 teraflops of compute power and 100 gigabytes per second of I/O throughput.

"Together, we have unlocked the potential of large Linux clusters through a new storage clustering paradigm," said Rod Schrock, chief executive officer of Panasas. "This award recognizes the years of collaboration with the Los Alamos Linux Cluster Computing team."

"We are honored to accept this prestigious award," said Gary Grider of Los Alamos' Computing, Communications and Networking Division, "Working with the National Nuclear Security Administration, Panasas and other partners, we are helping to usher in the era of the commodity-based supercomputer."

About Panasas

Formed in 2000, Panasas, Inc. (www.panasas.com) is the pioneering leader in object-based storage clustering for scalable Linux clusters. Panasas offers a networked storage solution that eliminates the inherent scalability bottlenecks in capacity and performance experienced by traditional networked storage systems. The system, based on industry standards, is designed to easily and cost-effectively integrate into existing IT environments. The company's headquarters are in Fremont, CA with development facilities in Pittsburgh, PA and Houston, TX.

About Los Alamos National Laboratory

Los Alamos National Laboratory is operated by the University of California for the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) of the U.S. Department of Energy and works in partnership with NNSA's Sandia and Lawrence Livermore national laboratories to support NNSA in its mission. Los Alamos develops and applies science and technology to ensure the safety and reliability of the U.S. nuclear deterrent; reduce the threat of weapons of mass destruction, proliferation and terrorism; and solve national problems in defense, energy, environment and infrastructure.