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PARABON GRID PLATFORM TO POWER WORLD'S LARGEST OPEN PUBLIC GRID

The West Virginia High Technology Consortium (WVHTC) Foundation and Parabon Computation Inc announce a strategic partnership in which Parabon's secure Grid computing platform, Frontier, will be the core technology used to drive the Global Grid Exchange.

An initiative of the WVHTC Foundation, the Global Grid Exchange will utilize Frontier to safely and unobtrusively aggregate the idle or unused computer processing resources throughout the State of West Virginia. With access to such state resources, from PCs to mainframes, the Global Grid Exchange will soon be the largest open public computing Grid in the world.

By Computing Outside of the Box, Frontier delivers a highly scalable, on-demand, super computing capacity via the Internet, efficiently and securely, directly to the desktops of users. As the first industrial-strength Internet Grid computing platform for commercial general-purpose use in the market, Frontier offers a secure Grid infrastructure proven across such diverse industries as life sciences, entertainment and media, financial services, high technology, government and academia.

"In our evaluation of Grid computing solutions to power the Global Grid Exchange, security, ease of use, stability and information protection, for both users and those donating their computing resources across the state, were our key evaluation criteria," said James L. Estep, president and CEO of the WVHTC Foundation. "In the end, Parabon became an obvious choice for us to partner with as Frontier best satisfied our exacting requirements for a Grid computing platform on which to run the Global Grid Exchange."

"The use of Frontier as the key infrastructure component in West Virginia's economic development initiative is a significant step forward in validating the robust and secure nature of Parabon's solutions," said Steven L. Armentrout, president and CEO of Parabon Computation Inc. "The Global Grid Exchange represents the next step in the evolution of Grid computing, one in which our enterprise Grid clients are equally excited to participate."

The Global Grid Exchange will empower users with an incomparable platform- independent computing environment for the development and deployment of distributed computing applications. Delivering unprecedented computing power, the Global Grid Exchange will create a cost effective computation infrastructure that will drive innovation in the commercial, government and academic sectors around the world. Users will find the Global Grid Exchange simple and easy to use, requiring no additional investment in IT.