BURLINGTON, Mass. [May 4, 2004]—The Ada Resource Association announced today that its member, Ada Core Technologies, Inc., , a leader in Ada 95 technology and providers of the GNAT Pro Ada development toolsuite, is expanding its support agreement with Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI). The new agreement will include the development and support of the GNAT Pro product line on the SGI® Altix® family of superclusters and servers, which feature the 64-bit Intel® Itanium® 2 processor and the Linux® operating system.

Since its launch just over a year ago, SGI Altix has become the first Linux OS-based system to scale to 256 Itanium 2 processors in a single system image—and thousands more via clustering—using the powerful SGI® NUMAflex^TM global shared-memory architecture. The Altix architecture handles large data sets with ease, giving software developers an opportunity to provide 64-bit Linux applications to customers in manufacturing, oil and gas exploration, homeland security, earth and environmental sciences research, and life sciences.

"SGI is creating a new path for its traditional Ada95 customers who use systems based on MIPS processors and IRIX operating systems so that they will be able to benefit from the tremendous performance and price advantages of the Altix server family," said Wes Embry, western regional director of Ada Core.

"The GNAT Pro Ada 95 Development Environment has been a crucial offering for numerous SGI customers for many years now and continues to be moving forward," said Anneke Dempsey, senior director of Global Alliances, SGI. "SGI is pleased to expand this long-term relationship with AdaCore so that the Ada 95 tools, libraries, and IDE, along with AdaCore services, will also be available to Altix developers and customers. This agreement will allow SGI and AdaCore to leverage the strengths of both companies to better serve our mutual customers effectively."

AdaCore's newly released integrated development environment (IDE), called the GNAT Programming System (GPS), will be included as part of the AdaCore solution for Altix. SGI customers will be able to discover how this extensible technology not only increases the efficiency of individual contributors, but also improves the overall productivity and communication of entire teams and projects without being subject to the risks of using proprietary IDE's for this important task.

SGI has a long history of building high-performance computing systems that perform well with Ada applications, and has worked with AdaCore for nearly a decade. The SGI Altix server port is the latest and most exciting chapter of this story.

"This agreement continues the long relationship that SGI and AdaCore have enjoyed together. SGI was AdaCore's very first customer," said Embry. "Both parties are continuing to work together to ensure that a top quality Ada 95 development environment is available on SGI systems."

AdaCore will continue to provide its Premium level service to all SGI customers who purchased Ada 95 compiler support contracts for the MIPS® processor and IRIX® OS-based product family and will be developing technology to aid those customers choosing to transition from this processor architecture to the new Itanium 2 processor-based Altix family.

The Ada Resource Association (http://www.adaresource.com) is an international trade group comprising the principal vendors of Ada-related technology. The ARA promotes and publicizes Ada technology usage (http://www.adaic.org), and it sponsors the ongoing development and maintenance of the Ada language standard and supporting infrastructure.