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New Xserve Cluster Node Offers Competitive Price/Performance

Loveland, Colorado -- 25 March 2003 -- Terra Soft Solutions, Inc., the leading developer of integrated PowerPC Linux solutions, today promoted the new Apple Xserve "Cluster Node" and RAID boxes with highly competitive pricing for clusters of all sizes.

"The Xserve Cluster Node is simply perfect, offering the strongest price/performance advantage ever offered by Apple Computer. [The Cluster Node] takes full advantage of Yellow Dog Linux and our cluster management suite Black Lab as both are inherently designed to boot without local CD-ROM or video card," stated Kai Staats, co-founder and CEO of Terra Soft.

The new Cluster Node is a simplified but highly powerful 1U Xserve. Apple removed the AGP Gigabit card, video card, CD-ROM, and $1000 from the price tag. Designed to net-boot and perform as a clustered compute node, Terra Soft is pleased to showcase the Cluster Node as its preferred cluster offering.

With a basic, single unit cost of $2799 for a dual 1.33 GHz that provides 19 GFlops performance, the price/performance ratio ($147/GFlop) provides stiff competition to Intel Xeon-based compute nodes for 32-bit calculations.

In addition, Terra Soft is pleased to immediately offer the Xserve RAID fiber channel storage solution in 720 GB, 1.26 Terabyte, and 2.52 Terabyte configurations with Yellow Dog Linux support.

As an Apple Authorized OEM VAR with discounts to educational facilities and university operated national labs, Terra Soft is enabled to provide volume discounts to commercial, government, and educational customers.

Learn more about the Cluster Node

To purchase, visit the Terra Soft Store

The RAID box is shipping now. The Cluster Node is slated to ship by the end of April.

About Terra Soft Solutions, Inc.
Terra Soft is a leading developer of integrated solutions for PowerPC and an Apple OEM VAR. Yellow Dog Linux has boosted viability of Linux on PowerPC microprocessors with support for desktop, embedded, and HPC systems. Black Lab is an advanced, scalable, HPC cluster build and management suite.

For more information, visit www.terrasoftsolutions.com

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