Supermicro TwinBlade(TM) Wins 2010 Best Blade Award

By Super Micro Computer Inc., PRNE
Sunday, May 9, 2010

TwinBlade(TM) delivers Highest Performance, Density (20 DP nodes in 7U) and Power Supply Efficiency (94%) with Lowest TCO and 40Gb/s InfiniBand

SAN JOSE, California, May 10, 2010 - Super Micro Computer, Inc. (www.supermicro.com ) (Nasdaq: SMCI),
the leader in server technology innovation and green computing, today
announced that its widely available TwinBlade(TM)
(www.supermicro.com/products/Superblade/TwinBlade ) won the Best
Blade-Based Solution award at the 4th annual BladeSystems Insight Summit 2010
on April 20 in Orlando, Florida. The IT executives and industry analysts in
attendance voted for the TwinBlade(TM) platform as the best overall blade
server in the industry. This 2010 award is the second annual blade award won
by Supermicro in three years at the BladeSystems Insight Summit.

(Photo: www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20100510/AQ01693)

"This prestigious award recognizes Supermicro's engineering innovation
that doubles the number of nodes in a single blade enclosure," said Charles
Liang
, CEO and president of Supermicro. "Easy to deploy, easy to use, and
offering the best price-to-performance and profit potential available to our
customers, SuperBlade(R) was also ranked number one by CRN in its cover story
entitled Blades of Glory, which was a head-to-head competition among the
major brands. It also won the Best Green Data Center Solution award at the
2nd annual BladeSystems Insight."

As the newest addition to Supermicro's SuperBlade(R) family
(www.supermicro.com/products/Superblade ), the innovative
TwinBlade(TM) doubles the number of dual-processor (DP) compute nodes per 7U
enclosure to 20, for an incredibly dense and cost-effective 0.35U per node.
Based on the SBI-7226T-T2 blade
(www.supermicro.com/servers/blade/module/SBI-7226T-T2.cfm ) supporting
the latest Intel Xeon 5600 Series (Westmere) processors this system delivers
unprecedented performance-per-dollar and performance-per-square-foot.
Available with dual 40Gb/s QDR InfiniBand switches, this optimized blade
solution combines industry-leading 94% power supply efficiency with
Supermicro's innovative and highly efficient thermal and cooling system
designs to deliver exceptional system performance-per-watt, making it the
greenest, most power-efficient server solution in the world today.

The TwinBlade(TM) enables up to 2,880 processing cores per 42U rack when
powered by new twelve-core AMD Opteron(TM) 6100 Series processors (Socket
G34). Featuring dual 40Gb/s InfiniBand, FCoE or 10GbE switches and dual
1/10GbE switches in one 7U enclosure, TwinBlade(TM) provides the highest
performing I/O throughput and scalability in the industry and is a superb
solution for high-performance computing (HPC), datacenter, enterprise and
cloud computing deployments. With successful installations at CERN, PRACE,
and other Fortune 100 organizations, the SuperBlade(R) has already become the
preferred solution for a wide range of mission-critical applications.

Supermicro's OfficeBlade(R) enclosure with 10 blades in 7U provides
industry-leading energy efficiency and low-noise (50dB*) operation, making it
an excellent choice for office environments or a personal supercomputer,
especially when mounted into Supermicro's optimized 14U mobile rack cabinet
(CSE-RACK14U). While the quiet OfficeBlade(R) is ideal for office
environments, the DatacenterBlade(TM) packs 14 energy-efficient blades into
one 7U enclosure, with industry-leading performance-per-watt, making it
perfect for datacenter and HPC applications. Supermicro's enterprise-class
SuperBlade(R) features both dual and quad-processor blades for performance,
scalability and flexibility. For optimum storage, SuperBlade(R) supports up
to 10 two-socket server blades with 60 hot-plug SAS2/SATA hard disk drives in
a single 7U enclosure.

About Super Micro Computer, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMCI)

Supermicro, the leader in server technology innovation and green
computing, provides customers around the world with application-optimized
server, workstation, blade, storage and GPU systems. Based on its advanced
Server Building Block Solutions, Supermicro offers the most optimized
selection for IT, datacenter and HPC deployments. The company's system
architecture innovations include the Twin server, Double-sided Storage(TM)
and SuperBlade(R) product families. Offering the most comprehensive product
lines in the industry, Supermicro provides businesses of all sizes with
energy-efficient, earth-friendly solutions that deliver unmatched performance
and value. Founded in 1993, Supermicro is headquartered in Silicon Valley
with worldwide operations and manufacturing centers in Europe and Asia. For
more information, visit www.supermicro.com.

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Supermicro, Server Building Block Solution, SuperBlade and OfficeBlade
are registered trademarks and TwinBlade, DatacenterBlade and Double-sided
Storage are trademarks of Super Micro Computer, Inc. All other trademarks are
the property of their respective owners.

Michael Kalodrich, MichaelK at supermicro.com

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