He will join government and industry executives to discuss the steps federal agencies should take to rapidly make sense of increasing amounts of data, leading to better government-wide decision-making.

Dr. Hanson brings a unique perspective to these challenges garnered from his experience at the Senate and his tenures with the Air Force, NATO and industry. While at Criterion, he was instrumental in developing the approach – currently used in intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) programs – that integrates fusion and analysis applications on a miniature, high performance computer to provide near-real-time processing of multiple data streams from individual sensors.

To help organizations deal with the challenges resulting from the exponential growth in the amount of ISR data captured, Dr. Hanson’s team is delivering a multi-petabyte storage solution that delivers the economics of public cloud storage behind the firewall.

Prior to joining Criterion, Dr. Hanson served as CIO for the U.S. Senate where he was responsible for the technology vision and strategy. He also held CTO positions at Universal Systems & Technology (UNITECH) and Telos Corporation, a $200M international technology company serving private and government markets. As Chief Software Engineer for the U.S. Air Force, Dr. Hanson developed global software policies and led the agency’s Y2K program. He also served as Chief Scientist at NATO’s Central Region Headquarters. Dr. Hanson earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Central Florida, a master’s of science degree in information systems from the U.S. Air Force Institute of Technology, and a bachelor of science from the U.S. Air Force Academy. He is also an adjunct full professor, teaching graduate computer science courses for the University of Maryland University College.

The Government Big Data Forum will take place January 26, 2011 at the Mayflower Renaissance Hotel in Washington, D.C.

Vienna, VA, August 24, 2010 – Dr. J. Greg Hanson, Criterion HPS’ Chief Technology Officer (CTO), is speaking at the Air Force Information Technology Conference (AFITC) in Montgomery, Ala. Dr. Hanson’s seminar, ‘ISR Fusion Architecture: Delivering Real-Time Information at the Operational Edge’ is scheduled for Monday, August 30th at 12:30 p.m. in Room RR6.

During his session, Dr. Hanson will detail an approach that integrates fusion and analysis applications on a miniature, high performance computer to provide near-real-time processing of multiple data streams from individual sensors.

Dr. Hanson brings nearly 32 years of technology leadership experience to Criterion HPS, a company that delivers optimized solution servers that are designed for the ‘edge of the cloud’ environments where power, space, and cooling are important.

“Historically ISR capabilities have been hindered by lack of compute power and excessive weight,” said Hanson. “A new generation of multi-sensor high performance computing solutions designed specifically for aerial operations and reconnaissance are eliminating the trade-offs between performance and weight. Deploying ISR Fusion to the edge is a breakthrough capability that provides access to real-time data from multiple sensors, enhancing situational awareness and improving mission outcome – this is a powerful tool for our troops engaged in combat.”

Prior to joining Criterion, Dr. Hanson served as CIO for the U.S. Senate where he was responsible for the technology vision and strategy. He is a respected international lecturer and author, and the recipient of numerous awards for leadership and professional excellence including two FED 100 Awards and an AFFIRM Leadership Award. Dr. Hanson earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Central Florida, a master’s of science degree in information systems from the U.S. Air Force Institute of Technology, and a bachelor of science from the U.S. Air Force Academy. He is also an adjunct full professor, teaching graduate computer science courses for the University of Maryland University College.

The Air Force Information Technology Conference will take place August 30 – September 2 at the Renaissance Montgomery Hotel & Spa located in Montgomery, Ala.

About Criterion HPS
Criterion HPS, Inc., the leader in optimized solution servers, works with software manufacturers to deliver superior overall system performance at the lowest total cost of computing. The company’s green solutions take advantage of new computing architectures to overcome the most pressing enterprise challenges related to space, mobility, power and cooling. When compared to traditional data center architectures, optimized solution servers significantly reduce capital acquisition costs (40 to 80 percent); ongoing O&M costs (10 to 15 times); and energy consumption (more than 80 percent). Criterion HPS is headquartered in Vienna, VA. For more information visit www.criterion-hps.com.

For more information contact:
Marcie Cheney
703-942-5800, ext. 329
marcie.cheney@criterion-sys.com

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Vienna, VA, May 4, 2010 – Criterion HPS, Inc., the leader in optimized solution servers, is now a General member of the Intel^® Embedded Alliance. One of the world’s most recognized brands, the Intel Embedded Alliance allows Criterion HPS to leverage Intel’s lead-edge products and technologies.

Criterion HPS’ portfolio of optimized solution servers are built with state-of-the-art components, including Intel^® Nehalem processors. By aligning with Intel’s roadmaps, Criterion HPS utilizes the latest chipsets to deliver solutions that are proven to lower total cost of ownership; support sustainability strategies; and address the data center power, space and cooling issues.

“Intel is delivering breakthrough technologies that will fundamentally change the economics of data center operations,” said Promod Sharma, President and CEO, Criterion. “This alliance ensures that our optimized solution servers fully leverage these breakthroughs and allows us to deliver significant implementation, operational and environmental savings to our data center customers.”

Criterion HPS leverages the Intel multi-core, multi-threaded, 64-bit architectures to manufacture optimized solution servers that use less power and create less heat than traditional data center solutions. This powerful value proposition allows customers to significantly reduce total cost of ownership and complexity while increasing the flexibility and agility needed to meet ever changing business priorities.

Over the past year, Criterion HPS has worked with more than 20 software manufactures to benchmark its software and create a total optimized solution that delivers out-of-the-box, manufacturer best practices optimized performance. The collective results of this benchmarking activity indicate that the company’s optimized solution services reduce initial capital acquisition costs by 40 to 60 percent and ongoing O&M costs by 10 to 15 times. In addition, the optimized solution servers deliver significant sustainability benefits by using less than 20 percent of the energy traditional data center architectures required to support the same workload levels.

Popular enterprise workloads benchmarked on Criterion HPS’ platforms include data center applications, virtualization and cloud, XML servers, geospatial, cyber forensics, bio-informatics, and enterprise messaging applications.

About Criterion HPS
Criterion HPS, Inc., the leader in optimized solution servers, works with software manufacturers to deliver superior overall system performance at the lowest total cost of computing. The company’s green solutions take advantage of new computing architectures to overcome the most pressing enterprise challenges related to space, mobility, power and cooling. When compared to traditional data center architectures, optimized solution servers significantly reduce capital acquisition costs (40 to 80 percent); ongoing O&M costs (10 to 15 times); and energy consumption (more than 80 percent). Criterion HPS is headquartered in Vienna, Va. For more information visit www.criterion-hps.com.

For more information contact:
Marcie Cheney
703-942-5800, ext. 329
marcie.cheney@criterion-hps.com

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Vienna, VA, April 8, 2010 – Criterion HPS, Inc., the leader in optimized solution servers, today introduced the company’s Extreme family of high performance solutions platforms powered by the new Intel® Xeon® 5600 Nehalem processors (code named Westmere). The Intel Xeon 5600 series chips are a family of 32-nanometer processors that support up to six cores, with two threads per core for a total of 12 threads per processor. These chips include enhanced security features and energy efficiency capabilities.

With the introduction of the Phantom Extreme, Criterion HPS continues to lead the market in delivering small, light-weight, low-power supercomputers that support critical workloads. The Phantom Extreme can be configured to provide up to 192 GB of RAM and 24 TB of internal raid storage in a form factor that weighs roughly 50 pounds.

“Criterion HPS’ family of platforms are built with state-of-the-art components. The new Westmere processors provide significant performance improvements for certain types of high performance workloads that run on the new Phantom Extreme,” said Promod Sharma, President and CEO, Criterion. “With Intel’s Nehalem processors, our customers can better exploit the massive amounts of RAM installed on a Phantom Extreme. This capability allows new levels of performance to be deployed to the operational edge.”

In addition to the Phantom Extreme, the original Criterion HPS Phantom supercomputer is available for those workloads that require a large number of physical processing cores.

Since early 2009, a number of recognized software manufacturers have benchmarked popular enterprise applications, including business analytics, cyber forensics, gene sequencing and enterprise messaging applications on Criterion HPS’ platforms. These collective benchmarks indicate that a single Phantom can eliminate, depending on the workload, anywhere from two to six racks of current data center equipment. This means using less data center floor space and substantially less power.

About Criterion HPS
Criterion HPS, Inc., the leader in optimized solution servers, works with software manufacturers to deliver superior overall system performance at the lowest total cost of computing. The company’s green solutions take advantage of new computing architectures to overcome the most pressing enterprise challenges related to space, mobility, power and cooling. When compared to traditional data center architectures, optimized solution servers significantly reduce capital acquisition costs (40 to 80 percent); ongoing O&M costs (10 to 15 times); and energy consumption (more than 80 percent). Criterion HPS is headquartered in Vienna, Va. For more information visit www.criterion-hps.com.

For more information contact:
Marcie Cheney
703-942-5800, ext. 329
marcie.cheney@criterion-hps.com

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Vienna, VA, February 9, 2010 – Criterion HPS, Inc. today announced the release of the Phantom, a computationally dense smart computing platform with a 64-bit, highly-parallel architecture that allows enterprises to overcome the power, space and cooling challenges. With the delivery of the Phantom, the company is responding to industry demands for a green technology that supports computationally intensive workloads without growing the data center footprint.

The Criterion HPS Phantom provides tremendous processing improvements and considerable acquisition and operational cost savings. Originally developed for a federal government agency, Criterion HPS has expanded the Phantom’s capabilities and partnered with leading software vendors to create appliance-based solutions to meet the computational needs of both public and private sector organizations.

“What started as a research project to address a specific customer challenge has evolved into one of the most powerful, green high performance solutions in the market,” said Promod Sharma, President and CEO, Criterion. “Since the initial government implementation, the company has expanded operations based on research, testing, customer interaction and benchmark initiatives with a range of well-known software providers. Criterion HPS has fine-tuned the Phantom, built out the company’s infrastructure and established a U.S. manufacturing facility to ensure the pedigree of our product. Now we are ready to help address our customer’s most pressing challenges related to rapidly increasingly computational requirements for mission-critical workloads.”

The Criterion HPS Phantom delivers more than 1 TFLOP of processing power through 24 processing cores, up to 16 TB of internal storage and 192 GB of RAM in a 5.25”x17”x19” form factor that weighs roughly 50 pounds. The Phantom requires a single 110V/20Amp circuit pulling less than 650 watts of power resulting in heat output of approximately 2300 BTUs – less than a standard hair dryer.

To maximize the potential of the Phantom, Criterion HPS collaborates with software partners to fine tune appliance solutions that leverage the platform’s multi-core architecture. To date, a number of recognized software manufacturers have benchmarked popular enterprise workloads on the Phantom. The collective benchmarks confirm that the Phantom delivers new levels of performance, green technology and economics:

Performance:

• Massive computing delivered in a small, light weight package
• Unique single motherboard architecture

Green:

• Single 110v/20Amp power source
• 845 watts
• ~2,300 BTUs

Economics:

• Reduces initial capital acquisition costs by 40 to 80 percent
• Reduces Operations and Maintenance (O&M) costs by 10 to 15 times when compared to standard datacenter hardware configurations
• Reduces energy consumption by more than 80 percent

Built with state-of-the-art COTS components and the latest Intel® CPU architecture, the Phantom’s scalability and modular design allows enterprises to easily and economically increase performance and capacity to address growing computing requirements.

The Phantom has been tested in a number of diverse use cases ranging from transforming data center applications and processing genome threads to speeding up password cracking and flying in reconnaissance vehicles to support fusion, analysis and processing of intelligence information.

“A new era of computing has emerged from the industry’s dual focus on reducing power consumption and sustaining Moore’s Law,” concluded Sharma. “At the center of this next generation of high performance computing systems, the Phantom has the potential to transform current data center operations and fundamentally reduce the cost of enterprise computing. Enterprises need a powerful, green technology alternative to their current environments. Criterion HPS is well positioned to fill this market void by delivering appliance-based high performance solutions to power compute intensive software applications while greening the data center.”

About Criterion HPS
Criterion HPS, Inc., the leader in optimized solution servers, works with software manufacturers to deliver superior overall system performance at the lowest total cost of computing. The company’s green solutions take advantage of new computing architectures to overcome the most pressing enterprise challenges related to space, mobility, power and cooling. When compared to traditional data center architectures, optimized solution servers significantly reduce capital acquisition costs (40 to 80 percent); ongoing O&M costs (10 to 15 times); and energy consumption (more than 80 percent). Criterion HPS is headquartered in Vienna, Va. For more information visit www.criterion-hps.com.

For more information contact:
Marcie Cheney
703-942-5800, ext. 329
marcie.cheney@criterion-hps.com

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