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Dual NVIDIA Quadro(R) FX 3500 By PNY Technologies(R), Inc., Graphic Boards, SLI-Enabled, Now Available in Portable, Graphics Engineering Workstation

Posted on: Thursday, 6 July 2006, 12:00 CDT

NASHUA, N.H., July 6 /PRNewswire/ -- NextComputing (http://www.nextcomputing.com/), creators of the first FlexTop computer, the NextDimension (http://www.nextcomputing.com/products/nextdim.htm), announced today the availability of Dual NVIDIA Quadro(R) FX 3500 graphic boards by PNY Technologies, Inc. inside this portable, graphics engineering super computer. NextComputing is known in the HPC community as innovators for its engineering design talents, bringing to market the smallest, portable form factors with features capable of the most intensive graphics applications (http://www.nextcomputing.com/advantages/graphics.htm).

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The NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500 alone brings unsurpassed GPU capabilities and SLI(TM) support, 256MB of GDDR3 RAM, stereo and dual dual-link DVI connectors, ideal for high-end CAD/CAM (http://www.nextcomputing.com/industries/ecc-mainsol.htm), DCC (http://www.nextcomputing.com/industries/game-mainsol.htm), and Visualization markets. Performance specs of each card: 54 sgs-04, 71 proe-03, 42 sw-01, and 44 3dsmax-03. SLI-enabled, performance can increase by 2X dependent upon the application (http://www.nextcomputing.com/advantages/nvidia.htm).

"By harnessing the power of two NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500 by PNY graphic boards, NextDimension delivers portable high performance workstation graphics into markets requiring breakthrough levels of performance including oil & gas, military and visualization applications," said Jeff Medeiros, business development manager, PNY Technologies.

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NextComputing's NextDimension (http://www.nextcomputing.com/products/nextdim.htm) combines Dual, Dual-Core Opteron(TM) Processors by AMD(TM) with the capabilities of two cards to address the problems of CPU bottlenecks, long a complaint of graphics engineers utilizing extremely high-res 3D applications including features like pixel and vertex shading. 3D performance in many CAD applications is dependent upon the workstation's CPU. Throwing more graphics power at CAD applications alone will not solve the problem if the workstation's CPU is limited. NVIDIA has worked with ISVs to enable its OpenGL implementations to reduce the CPU bottleneck by "off loading" processing tasks to the GPU. Combine this with Dual, Dual-Core 2.2 GHz Opteron(TM) Processors by AMD(TM), and you get maximum thru-put from both AMD's Hyper Transport technology (http://www.nextcomputing.com/advantages/thruadv.htm) and the renowned PCI Express x16 bus, more space on the CPU, better graphics performance, as well as higher speed memory availability.

NextComputing not only brings to the table the highest performing graphics engineering workstation with its NextDimension (http://www.nextcomputing.com/products/nextdim.htm), but they make it portable (http://www.nextcomputing.com/advantages/portadv.htm). The graphics community benefits in two ways - a top performing desktop graphics workstation, and a form factor that can be easily transported anywhere.

About PNY Technologies, Inc.

Established in 1985, PNY Technologies(R), Inc. is a leading supplier and marketer of NVIDIA Quadro(R) by PNY Technologies professional graphics boards and Verto-brand consumer graphics cards. PNY Technologies is headquartered in Parsippany, N.J. For additional information, please visit the company's Web site at http://www.pny.com/.

The PNY logo is a registered trademark of PNY Technologies, Inc. NVIDIA, NVIDIA Quadro and nView are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of NVIDIA Corporation in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Contact: Laura Cooper of NextComputing Corporate Phone: 603-886-3874 Sales@nextcomputing.com Marketing@nextcomputing.com http://www.nextcomputing.com/

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NextComputing

CONTACT: Laura Cooper of NextComputing, +1-603-886-3874,Sales@nextcomputing.com, or Marketing@nextcomputing.com

Web site: http://www.nextcomputing.com/http://www.nextcomputing.com/advantages/graphics.htmhttp://www.pny.com/

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