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Microway, Inc. and Apex Sign Professional Services Agreement
PLYMOUTH, MA – Microway, a leading provider of custom Linux clusters to the high performance computing community and Apex Digital Systems, one of the foremost services-based technology providers for life sciences, announced a professional services program for the life sciences market today. This agreement enables Microway and Apex to jointly offer a fully-integrated package of HPC products and professional consulting services, customized to individual customers. The service areas include evaluation and recommendations for data warehousing, project management, network/data center design, custom software installations, integration and management systems that best suit your custom needs. “We offer expertise and proven experience in virtually every aspect of research computing” said Manuel Mattke, President and CEO of Apex. “Our initial consulting engagements are structured to provide useful results quickly and are essentially a reliable way for our clients to best align appropriate technologies with scientific goals. We have been installing, managing and supporting clusters for several years and have a thorough understanding of what works best for end-users. We have long recommended Microway and are pleased to have established a more formal relationship with this outstanding company.” “In the past year, Microway has been aggressively pursuing partnerships with organizations that complement our solutions for HPC users. By working closely with firms like Apex, we will enhance our application expertise,” said Jay Owen, Vice President, Business Development for Microway. “Apex and Microway have already identified a number of opportunities for joint work.” In 2002, Microway developed a number of management tools including MCMS™ and NodeWatch™. MCMS provides a view of resource utilization on cluster nodes. NodeWatch is a proprietary hardware/software environmental monitoring product. Microway also recently expanded their agreement with Platform Computing to include the full suite of Platform products and services for Microway clusters. Microway is currently evaluating technology enhancements from 64-bit processors and cluster interconnects.