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vSMP Foundation Standalone selected a 2008 Best Products and Services winner in “Best in Aggregation” category: ScaleMP, a leading provider of virtualization solutions for high-end computing, today announced that Network Products Guide, a Silicon Valley Communications publication and a world-leading publication on technologies and solutions, has named vSMP Foundation Standalone a winner of its 2008 Best Products and Services Award in the “Best in Aggregation” category. This respected annual award honors products and services that represent the rapidly changing needs and interests of the end-users of technology worldwide. As part of the tech-industry’s leading global awards program, this year’s Best Products and Services were nominated from all over the world. The vSMP Foundation Standalone software aggregates multiple off-the-shelf x86 systems into a single virtual shared memory system, reducing overall system management complexity while providing maximum processing and memory capabilities. Solutions based on the vSMP Foundation aggregation platform are ideal for compute-intensive and memory-intensive applications in the High Performance Computing (HPC) market, providing up to 70 percent price/performance advantage compared to traditional SMP systems. They also offer significant advantages over cluster deployments by reducing operational costs associated with multiple operating systems, cluster interconnect issues, cluster file systems, and complex I/O architectures. “Increased end-user awareness and ongoing advances in technology are helping shape better products and services,” says Rake Narang, editor-in-chief, Network Products Guide. “vSMP Foundation Standalone from ScaleMP is significantly improving utilization through a centralized architecture, which simplifies management while increasing processing and memory.” “These awards go to the best technology products every year, and we are honored that ScaleMP’s software solution has gained the Network Products Guide reader trust,” said Shai Fultheim, founder and CEO of ScaleMP. “We are committed to meeting our customer needs by providing them with leading-edge products based on our latest aggregation technology, bringing simplicity and impressive cost reductions to their most complex environments.”