FREMONT, Calif. — November 13, 2003 — Panasas, Inc., the premier storage system for scalable Linux clusters, today announced that founder and chief technology officer, Dr. Garth Gibson, will serve as session chair in the "Advanced Storage Concepts, Architectures, Technologies" panel at the Supercomputing 2003 conference (SC2003) on Wednesday November 19th at 1:30pm. SC2003, the annual conference for high performance computing, will be held from November 15-21 in the Phoenix Convention Center in Arizona. Dr. Gibson will also be a featured presenter in the Exhibitor Forum, presenting "Panasas Object Storage: Redefining Storage Bandwidth for Linux Clusters." Panasas, an exhibitor at the show, will host presentations from customers and partners highlighting the revolutionary object-based storage architecture and related high performance computing topics.

Panasas, located in booth 2501, will feature several performance demonstrations of the Panasas ActiveScale Storage Cluster, as well as hosting short technical presentations given by Panasas and selected end users and partners. Featured end users and partners include Los Alamos National Laboratory, the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, Extreme Networks, MPI Software Technology and Rackable Systems.

Schedule of events:
Storage on the Lunatic Fringe: Beyond Peta-Scale Storage Systems--       Advanced Storage Concepts, Architectures, Technologies Workshop
Session Chair: Garth Gibson, Founder and CTO, Panasas Panelists: Gabriel Broner, SGI; Roger Haskin, IBM; Jeff Hornung, Spinnaker Networks; David Pease, IBM; Tim Reddin, HP; Brent Welch, Panasas Wednesday, November 19, 2003-1:30-3:00 p.m. Phoenix Civic Plaza Convention Center, Room 42 & 43
Exhibitor Forum: Panasas Object Storage: Redefining Storage Bandwidth for Linux Clusters
Speaker: Garth Gibson, Founder and CTO, Panasas Tuesday, November 18, 2003-11:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m. Phoenix Civic Plaza Convention Center, Room 11 & 12
ASCI Booth: Panasas Object Storage: Redefining Storage Bandwidth for Linux Clusters
Speaker: Garth Gibson, Founder and CTO, Panasas Thursday, November 20, 2003-12:15-12:45 p.m. Phoenix Civic Plaza Convention Center, Booth 3023
Panasas technical presentation schedule (Booth #2501):
Monday, November 17
7:30 pm	Introducing the Panasas ActiveScale Storage Cluster Larry Jones, Director of Marketing, Panasas
8:30 pm	Object Storage: Redefining Bandwidth for Linux Clusters (Panasas) Garth Gibson, Founder and CTO, Panasas
Tuesday, November 18
11:00 am	Introducing the Panasas ActiveScale Storage Cluster Larry Jones, Director of Marketing, Panasas
12:00 pm	Ethernet: The Heart of the Next Generation SuperComputer Rich Langston, Solutions Marketing Manager, Extreme Networks
1:00 pm	Shared Storage for High Performance Computing Bruce Moxon, Vertical Marketing Manager, Panasas
2:00 pm	Global Unified Parallel File System (GUPFS) Project at NERSC Rei Lee, NERSC Advanced Systems Group
3:00 pm	Object Storage: Redefining Bandwidth for Linux Clusters Garth Gibson, Founder and CTO, Panasas
4:00 pm	Exceeding the needs of parallel apps with high I/O requirements M. Drew Streib, Senior Sales Engineer, Rackable Systems
Wednesday, November 19
11:00 am	Introducing the Panasas ActiveScale Storage Cluster J.P. Gallagher, Director of Marketing, Panasas
12:00 pm	LinuxBIOS / BProc Cluster Ron Minnich, Cluster Research Lab Team Leader, Los Alamos National Laboratory
1:00 pm	Shared Storage for High Performance Computing Bruce Moxon, Vertical Marketing Manager, Panasas
2:00 pm	Making The Scalable I/O Connection: ChaMPIon/Pro + AS FS (MSTI) Dr. Anthony Skjellum, Chief Technology Officer, MSTI
3:00 pm	How Data and Simulation Come Together at NERSC Bill Kramer, Department Head, High Performance Computing, NERSC
4:00 pm	Topspin InfiniBand for HPC Clusters Ben Eiref, Director of Product Marketing
Thursday, November 20
11:00 am	Introducing the Panasas ActiveScale Storage Cluster Larry Jones, Director of Marketing, Panasas
2:00 pm	Shared Storage for High Performance Computing Bruce Moxon, Vertical Marketing Manager, Panasas
1:00 pm	Object Storage: Redefining Bandwidth for Linux Clusters Garth Gibson, Founder and CTO, Panasas

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.