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Contact:	Diane Nelson	Donna Rose
	Express Intelligence	Global System Services Corporation (GSS)
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GLOBAL SYSTEM SERVICES SPONSORS PROJECT DEEP BLITZ

64-bit PCs Using AMD Opteron™ Processors Rival IBM’s Deep Blue Supercomputer

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA, January 26, 2006 – Global System Services Corporation (“GSS”), a leading systems integrator and software vendor, today announced Project Deep Blitz, a computer science research project to determine if PC compatible computers using 64-bit AMD Opteron™ processors can surpass IBM’s Deep Blue supercomputer.

Project Deep Blitz stresses overall system design as well as microprocessor functions that correlate both with CPU benchmarks such as SPEC and enterprise throughput-oriented benchmarks such as TPC.

GSS, which provides performance analysis and scalability services for large enterprises and service providers, has begun moving customers to multi-core, 64-bit solutions. The implications of Project Deep Blitz indicate how far customers can go using PC compatible technology compared with alternative chip and computer system architectures.

“We see this as a significant milestone in the progression of transistor density following Moore’s Law,” said Ron Herardian, Managing Partner at Global System Services Corporation. “The implications of increased compute density are unclear if we do not see corresponding progressions in system throughput and input/output. It is obvious that in a few years we will have massively parallel microprocessor cores. The question is: Can we use them effectively?”

IBM’s Deep Blue supercomputer was an RS/6000 SP based system with 32 15-million-transistor P2SC processors (480 million transistors) and 512 1.3-million-transistor Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) (666 million transistors) totaling 1.15 billion transistors. Dual-core AMD Opteron™ chips contain approximately 233 million transistors thus only five chips total 1.17 billion transistors.

Project Deep Blitz is to use only off-the-shelf components from AMD and affiliated vendors including multi-core 64-bit processors, DDR memory, SATA RAID, gigabit networking, and PCI-E AMD Opteron™ processors support simultaneous 32-bit and 64-bit computing as well as Direct Connect Architecture for multi-core CPUs and HyperTransport technology for high-speed input/output.

About GSS

Global System Services Corporation (GSS) is a leading software and services firm for e-mail and messaging, directory services and groupware to customers worldwide. In addition to its software products, GSS provides services ranging from technology planning and solution architecture to implementation. GSS is based in Mountain View, California. Additional information is available on the Internet at http://www.gssnet.com, by sending e-mail to info@gssnet.com, or by calling +1 (650) 965-8669.

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