Calgary, Alberta – Sept. 23, 2009 – Tycrid Platform Technologies, a provider of scalable GPU-based HPC platforms and shared resource solutions for the life sciences and pharmaceutical industries, today announced that the company will participate in the premier international conference on high performance computing, networking, storage and analysis, SC09, November 14-20, 2009 in Portland, Oregon.

According to Chris Heier, President of Tycrid Platform Technologies, “SC09 will attract more than 10,000 of the world’s brightest computational scientists and researchers for this 22nd annual gathering, and many of these are the HPC acquisition decision makers we need to know as we look for new collaboration partners and end users seeking fresh, innovative solutions for accelerating their applications.”

Tycrid will demonstrate its workstation solutions from booth number 255, and company co-founder and Chairman, Tim Davies, will deliver a special presentation during the SC09 Exhibitor Forum on Wednesday, November 18, 2009, titled, “An Open Platform: GPU Software Test Platform” discussing a proposed research test bed with a 100 teraflop GPU cluster.

In addition to the highly respected technical conference and thrust areas focusing on 3D Internet and Sustainability, SC09 will also have a spotlight on Bio-Computing. For more information on SC09’s Bio-Computing thrust, go to http://sc09.supercomputing.org/files/NR_SC09_Bio_Computing_092309.pdf.

Tycrid Platform Technologies designs scalable GPU-based HPC platforms and shared resource solutions for the life sciences and pharmaceutical industries. The company manufactures the Titan and Slipstream GPU-based HPC platforms. Tycrid will participate in the 22nd annual SC conference, SC09, in Portland, OR, Nov. 14-20, 2009. For more information on Tycrid Platform Technologies, please go to http://www.tycrid.com.

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