BILLERICA, Massachusetts, April 24, 2006 - CSP Inc. (NASDAQ: CSPI) MultiComputer Division, the leading supplier of rugged embedded clusters, today announced the 3000 SERIES, its 2nd generation of FastCluster systems. Building upon the momentum of the 2000 SERIES, the new VXS systems deliver unrivaled performance in bi-section bandwidth and processing density while preserving absolute code reuse at the application layer. The 3000 SERIES is targeted to high performance digital signal processing (DSP), SIGINT, radar and sonar applications in airborne, shipboard and UAV platforms where space and power are at a premium.

The 3000 SERIES redefines processing per-cubic-foot-per-watt and interconnect bi-section bandwidth by integrating the reconfigurable processing capabilities of Xilinx's FPGA technology with the latest Freescale Multi-Core processors and Myri-10G on a VXS platform. With its built-in 10-Gigabit Ethernet technology, the 3000 SERIES supports the DOD's vision of "systems of systems" in which embedded systems are not designed, deployed, and used in isolation but rather in a cooperative way.

"The 3000 SERIES affirms our commitment to provide our customers with an upgrade path to the most advanced technologies offering widespread interoperability and software reuse," said William E. Bent, Jr., General Manager and Vice President of the CSPI MultiComputer Division.

The 3000 SERIES conforms to the new VITA 41 VME Switched Serial (VXS) standard with the enhanced VXS P0 connector for performance and the traditional P1 and P2 connectors for legacy VME/VME64x cards. The initial offering includes a StarGate Multi-Core PowerPC VXS payload, a XL-Gate reconfigurable FPGA payload and the VXS switch boards. Systems are designed with a Single Star or Dual Star backplane. Myri-10G switched fabric and Xilinx's Aurora point-to-point serial FPGA interconnect are implemented on the switch cards to support the architecture and the payload requirements. Central to the Myri-10G fabric performance is a low power 16 port serial switch chip used to interconnect the Multi-Core and FPGA nodes to form a high performance embedded cluster with scalable bi-section bandwidth. The Xilinx Aurora point-to-point serial interconnect is implemented with a "protocol agnostic" serial crossbar switch. The user configures the crossbar to optimize the FPGA data flow across payloads, leveraging the Xilinx RocketIO ports without incurring the cost of a specific backplane design. Mesh or other point-to-point topologies can be configured as needed.

The FastCluster 3000 SERIES architecture delivers uncompromised scalability starting at 20 GBytes/s of bi-section bandwidth for a Single Star Myri-10G fabric. A Dual Star VXS chassis with 16 payloads doubles the bi-section bandwidth to 40 GBytes/s. A four chassis configuration with 256 PowerPC AltiVec cores provides 160 GBytes/s of bi-section bandwidth. This approach preserves the advantages associated with a modular small chassis footprint. In addition support of the 10-Gigabit Ethernet standard facilitates sensor data acquisition by the FPGA/Multi-Core processing nodes, and interoperability with workstations, raid disks, etc, enabling a low cost and practical insertion of FastCluster into future DOD platforms.

"Beyond performance, the 3000 SERIES offers the ultimate system interoperability with its built-in 10-Gigabit Ethernet at the edge of the Myri-10G switched fabric." said Bernard Pelon, Director of Product Research.

Available with VxWorks or a Linux 2.6 kernel the 3000 SERIES provides a robust software development environment that includes support for WindRiver's Workbench open device software development suite concurrently supporting VxWorks and Linux, VSIPL++ object oriented middleware, 10-Gigabit Ethernet stack, MPICH-MX or MPICH2-MX over Myri-10G for cluster computing and Myri-10G fabric management support.

FastCluster 3000 SERIES air-cooled systems are scheduled for test bed evaluation by Q4 of 2006 with follow-up conduction cooled versions. In a second phase, 3000 SERIES core technologies will migrate to enhanced MIL-SPEC rugged platforms with VITA 46/48 packaging and liquid cooling.

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About CSP Inc.

Based in Billerica, Massachusetts and founded in 1968, CSP Inc. (NASDAQ: CSPI) and its subsidiaries develop and market best-of-breed IT solutions, systems integration services, and high-performance computer systems. CSP's Systems segment includes the MultiComputer Division, which supplies high- performance Linux cluster systems for a broad array of defense applications, including radar, sonar and surveillance signal processing. The Company's MODCOMP, Inc. subsidiary, part of its Service and Systems Integration segment founded in 1970 and which includes the fiscal 2003 acquisition of Technisource, is a leading provider of IT solutions and systems integration services. MODCOMP works with third parties to develop customized solutions in the global IT markets and has offices in the U.S., U.K. and Germany.

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