St. Louis, MO (February 3, 2003) — Tsunami Research™ today announced that it is now shipping version 1.0 of HiveCreator™. HiveCreator, the first Hive Computing solution, is a software product which enables large numbers of dedicated, commodity computers to join together and form a new type of mission critical computing environment called a Hive. A Hive is self organizing, self healing, and self maintaining and is designed to host transaction oriented applications in a highly reliable and extremely affordable manner.

“When it comes to mission critical computing, businesses and other organizations are forced to trade off two equally important factors: reliability and affordability. Existing solutions like fault tolerant systems are reliable but depend on complex and expensive hardware for reliability and thus are extremely expensive. Commodity computers are affordable but are not reliable enough to do important work,” said Bob Lozano, CEO of Tsunami Research. “HiveCreator eliminates the need for such tradeoffs. A Hive combines the reliability of a fault tolerant system and the affordability of a commodity computer. HiveCreator will enable organizations to achieve a 90% reduction in the acquisition cost, and a 50% reduction in the development and operational costs, of mission critical computing solutions.

Hive Computing is able to deliver on this promise because it is based on three very different assumptions. First, a Hive assumes the application is all that matters. A self-organizing aspects of a Hive enable developers to focus on the task at hand, not the complexities of the physical environment. Second, a Hive, like TCP, recognizes that failure happens. As a result, a Hive is self-healing and is able to deal with deal with failure, not fear it. Finally, a Hive assumes computers are disposable. The self-maintaining capabilities of a Hive allow it to be built from inexpensive, PC-grade components.

“Many startups are taking advantage of the growing capabilities and falling costs of commodity computers to build less expensive supercomputers,” said John Shepard, CEO of Shepard Group International, a Tsunami Research Business Partner. “What excites us about what Tsunami Research is doing is that HiveCreator is the first solution to target the much larger market for fault tolerant and other mission critical computing solutions. We believe HiveCreator will revolutionize and grow the mission critical computing market by Making Mission Critical Computing Affordable.”

A Hive is ideally suited to deploying transaction-oriented and other mission critical applications. This includes trading systems and other financial service applications; homeland defense, law enforcement, and military applications; and any application which demands extraordinarily high levels of reliability.

"Transaction-oriented applications are the bread and butter of a business," said Ahmar Abbas, managing director of Grid Technology Partners, a market research and consulting firm. "By breaking through to new levels of application reliability, Hive Computing delivers a cost-effective infrastructure that businesses can trust for their most critical applications."

HiveCreator is available today through a national network of Tsunami Research Business Partners and is aggressively priced. HiveCreator will cost less than what most companies are paying just to maintain their existing mission critical computing solutions. A special HiveCreator Evaluation Edition will be available on the company’s website in the next few weeks. This version has a 90-day license key and will allow the user to create a 3-Worker Hive.

HiveCreator is platform agile and can be deployed on Microsoft’s Windows® 2000 and Windows® XP as well as FreeBSD 4.7. A version of HiveCreator for Linux will be available soon. The HiveCreator API supports Java®, C/C++ for Windows®, and C/C++ for UNIX. HiveCreator is designed to be deployed on dedicated, commodity computers that have a Pentium® or Athlon® class processor, 256 MB RAM, a 5 GB hard drive, and an Ethernet card. HiveCreator also works well with blade servers from such vendors as Hewlett-Packard, Dell, and IBM.

Tsunami Research, Inc. is a software company pioneering Hive Computing™, a new approach to the development, deployment, and management of mission critical applications. HiveCreator™, Tsunami Research’s flagship product, is a software toolkit that enables large numbers of dedicated, commodity computers to form a mission critical computing environment called a Hive™. A Hive is self-healing, self-organizing, and self-maintaining and, as a result, is simultaneously survivable, scalable, and reliable. The Tsunami Research core team, led by CEO Bob Lozano, previously founded PaylinX Corporation, makers of an enterprise payment processing engine for handling credit card and other transactions. PaylinX was acquired by CyberSource in 2000 in a deal valued at more than $130M. For more information about Tsunami Research, Hive Computing, or HiveCreator, call 314.336.5080, email , or visit www.tsunamiresearch.com.

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