GRCI was the SAN stock... 4 mil out, 750,000 float. Customers include CPQ, SUNW, SGI, Fujitsu, Department of DEfense & Energy, and the CERN. Check out this recent news:
World's Fastest System and Storage Area Network Demonstrated for
Japanese High Performance Computing Community
GENROCO GSN/ST Products Form Core of Next Generation SAN
TOKYO, Japan -- Oct. 26, 1999 -- GENROCO, Inc. (GENROCO) (OTC Bulletin Board: "GRCI") announced today that it provided the key
components for a demonstration of the world's fastest Storage Area Network (SAN) at a colloquium held in Japan last week.
Representatives from Fujitsu, NEC, Hitachi, IBM, Compaq, SGI, and other major computer vendors attended the demonstration, which
was the first of its kind held in Asia.
The presentation was highlighted by the Japanese debut of GENROCO's complete Gigabyte System Network (GSN) product family
including its new 8 port, full bridging, GSN switch; GSN/HIPPI/Gigabit Ethernet network router; GSN Storage Array Controller; and
SCSI over Schedule Transfer (ST) software for several UNIX platforms. These new offerings are the foundation for the highest bandwidth,
lowest latency, storage and networking topology available in the world today. More importantly, the GENROCO GSN and ST products
allow for highly scalable SANs across numerous, disparate network technologies.
The event, which was sponsored by Tokyo Electron, a leading Japanese distributor of computer components, and held at their world
headquarters, included attendees from industry, academia, and government agencies. The demo featured SGI, Compaq, IBM, and Sun
platforms networked via a GENROCO Datapropulsion(R) GSN switch and router, to a GENROCO TURBOstor(R) GSN Storage Array
Controller with Sun and Ciprico Fibre Channel (FC) disk subsystems, running TCP/IP, ST networking, and SCSI over ST storage
concurrently. SANs based on FC networks instead of GSN and ST can only operate using FC connected hosts, storage, and switch
fabrics and can not support Gigabit Ethernet, HIPPI, ATM, or other communication protocols.
"We are excited and encouraged about the international markets' acceptance and preparedness for the power, speed, and flexibility of
next generation SAN technology," stated Carl Pick, Chairman and CEO of GENROCO. "Working with a sophisticated partner like
Tokyo Electron Limited greatly strengthens our distribution capability in the Pacific Basin. TEL is truly helping us change the way the
world does networking and storage!"
GENROCO lead a similar industry event at CERN, the European Center for High Energy Physics in Geneva, Switzerland, a few days
earlier.
About Schedule Transfer (ST)
ST is a new ANSI standard network protocol designed to allow many times higher bandwidth with much lower host platform overhead
than TCP/IP or any other current industry standard. An ST datagram over any type of network commences, or is "scheduled", only
when a ready transmit buffer is matched by an equal sized, ready receive buffer at the destination. This allows the sending and
receiving engines at endpoints of a network to operate at the highest possible speed and efficiency by eliminating buffer overruns and
underruns.
About Gigabyte System Network (GSN)
GSN, is the highest bandwidth and lowest latency open system industry standard (ANSI HIPPI-6400-PH, ANSI NCITS 323-1998),
providing full duplex 6400 megabit (800 megabyte) per second channels of error-free, flow controlled data. The technology is ideal
wherever organizations require timely movement of large amounts of information including scientific and technical computing, digital TV
and movie production, data mining, transaction processing, video and film archiving, and storage management. The ANSI standard
provides for interoperability with disparate technologies including Ethernet, Fibre Channel, ATM, HIPPI-800, and other standards. The
GSN fabric operates at a full duplex data rate of 1.6 gigabytes per second making it an ideal backbone for multiplexing Fibre Channel
storage data streams.
Further information about GSN and ST can be found at hnf.org.
About GENROCO
GENROCO, Inc. is a 25-year-old, publicly traded engineering and marketing company that specializes in developing I/O solutions for
users of high performance storage area networks (SANs). By providing cross-platform support for its patented technology, the Company
is able to offer unique, extraordinarily high bandwidth, low host overhead products for these markets. GENROCO enjoys a global
customer base that includes Compaq, Fujitsu, SGI, Sun, the US Departments of Defense and Energy, CERN, and other research
institutions./font>
Additional information about GENROCO can be found at genroco.com.
Media Contact:
Dru Popper-Lopez
Director, Marketing and Communications
GENROCO, Inc.
505-238-4344
dru@genroco.com
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the are presenting at a conference November 13th through 18th that has the who's who of tech giants, including DELL, CPQ, etc.
Just eeked out a profit last quarter.
Moved up good yesterday after I was jabbering about it... tightened up the spread.
Regards,
Jason |
