Last update: 11:15 a.m. EST Nov. 18, 2008 RICHMOND, Va., Nov 18, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Desktop systems engineered by Velocity Micro and accelerated by NVIDIA(R) Tesla(TM) compute and driven by NVIDIA(R) Quadro(TM) graphics -- Personal Supercomputing -- Visual Supercomputing

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James River Technical, Inc. (JRTI), and Velocity Micro today announce the immediate availability of the world's first Intel Core i7 based ProMagix(TM) VSC135. Accelerated by up to two NVIDIA Tesla C1060's, the ProMagix(TM) VSC135 adds to the full line of high performance, Visual Super Computing (VSC's) workstation and host server platforms accelerated by the Tesla parallel computing engine from NVIDIA. The full line of VSC's will deliver unprecedented computational power to a user's compute intensive environments, providing solutions to a much broader market across all industries and scientific research disciplines.

Consisting of multiple custom configurable models, the VSC Series can deliver multi teraflop computing power at a price of $3,995 to $19,995. Preloaded with the NVIDIA CUDA development environment and a choice of Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit or Fedora Core 8, the VSC Series is the most comprehensive Tesla accelerated compute platform available to the market and marks the further democratization of high performance scientific computing. With the integration of a wide range of HPC graphics options, the VSC Series will bring a high level of interaction to the end user's workflow, allowing for highly visual and computationally intensive capability, designed to reduce time to discovery.

View the entire VSC Series here: www.jrti.com/products/velocitymicro_index.html

"We've leveraged our renowned engineering for high-end computing and graphics to deliver a truly revolutionary new level of performance and affordability," said Randy Copeland, President & CEO of Velocity Micro. "The VSC Series brings unprecedented computational power within the reach of a wide new audience of scientists, researchers, educators, and designers. JRTI is the perfect partner to bring these innovations to those communities which require this level of power."

"JRTI is pleased to further extend the VSC series solutions to include the latest Core i7 offering from our strategic partner, Velocity Micro," states Leo Iantosca, CEO of JRTI. "VSC is a game changer in that it further expands HPC capabilities for a much wider range of users. Our goal is to accelerate the pace of discovery across all areas of research from life sciences, medical imaging, oil & gas, product design and beyond. The economies of scale achievable with the VSC exceed anything imaginable in the past several years -- delivering the power of multi-node clusters to the desktop at an affordable price point."

About Velocity Micro, Inc.

Velocity Micro, Inc. is the premier high-performance personal computer provider in North America. Founded in 1992, Richmond, Va.-based Velocity Micro custom builds award winning gaming, mobile, multimedia, home office, and business solutions for intensive productivity. Velocity Micro consumer systems are available from Best Buy, Circuit City, and most major electronics retailers and Etailers nationwide. Velocity Micro is the manufacturer of the ProMagix VSC series, and JRTI is the exclusive global distributor for the series. For more information on Velocity Micro, please visit www.velocitymicro.com or call (800) 303-7866.

About James River Technical, Inc.

James River Technical, (JRTI) delivers High Performance Computing (HPC) solutions to the Academic, Government, and Commercial marketplaces. JRTI has delivered HPC solutions to a diverse customer base over the last 10 years, making JRTI one of the most successful VARs in the HPC arena. JRTI is focused on delivering HPC solutions that provide the most cost effective path to research discovery and insight. JRTI's coverage model serves clients throughout North America. JRTI works with its clients from early stage needs assessment and specification; grant and budget preparation; delivery, integration, and tuning; through ongoing support, consulting, and training. For more information on JRTI, please visit www.jrti.com or call (800) 296-0027. For more information please contact: James River Technical, Inc P: (800) 296-0027 or vsc@jrti.com To configure your ProMagix(TM) VSC, please visit: http://www.jrti.com/products/velocitymicro_index.html SOURCE Velocity Micro, Inc.

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