2008-03-10
Mercury Computer Systems Announces Avizo™ Software
Product Line for Engineering Data Visualization and Analysis
New offering delivers high-end 3D visualization
and data analysis capabilities to address advanced simulation post-processing
and testing challenges
CHELMSFORD, Mass. – March 10, 2008 – Mercury Computer Systems,
Inc. (NASDAQ: MRCY) announced Avizo™, a new software product line
that provides high-end 3D image and simulation data visualization and
analysis capabilities within an intuitive workflow and easy-to-use graphical
user interface.
Avizo offers a comprehensive, versatile, scalable application framework
that addresses all aspects of 3D scientific and industrial data visualization,
processing, analysis, and presentation. Based on Open Inventor® by Mercury,
Avizo delivers high-quality and high-performance 3D graphics capabilities,
including Flow data, Scalar, Vector and Tensor visualization; as well
as state-of-the-art image segmentation, 3D reconstruction and quantification
tools. Avizo is a versatile tool, perfectly suitable for managing multiphysics
data, and its open architecture allows all users to create new custom
components such as specific file readers and writers, computation modules,
and even new visualization modules.
Initially marketed under the amira® brand, and widely used in the Life
Sciences and biomedical research markets, the Avizo product line delivers
powerful visualization and analysis capabilities for applications in
all visual simulation fields, including computer-aided engineering, materials
science, geosciences, and general scientific and industrial activities.
“3D visualization has revolutionized the understanding and simulation
of scientific phenomena, both for research and industrial activities,” said Jean Bernard Cazeaux, Vice President of the Visualization Sciences Group at Mercury Computer Systems. “Leveraging
our 20 years of expertise in advanced 3D graphics technology and user
interfaces, the Avizo product line delivers advanced visualization and
data analysis software tools to address today’s challenges of design
and quality processes in all fields of engineering.”
Avizo 5 has already been adopted by numerous scientists and engineers,
and will be presented during the upcoming Aerospace Testing, Design and
Manufacturing Expo, in Munich, Germany, as well as during the annual
SAE World Congress in Detroit, USA.
Avizo 5 is now available for Linux® and Windows®, 32- and 64-bit environments, and support for additional platforms is planned. Packaged in configurable Editions and Extensions, the Avizo product line provides a comprehensive application framework that fits diverse fields of research. For more information on Avizo, visit http://3dviz.mc.com/avizo, or contact Mercury at (866) 627-6951.
Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. – Where Challenges Drive Innovation™
Mercury Computer Systems is the leading provider of computing systems and software for data-intensive applications that include image processing, signal processing, and visualization. With a strong commitment to innovation, our expertise in algorithm optimization, systems development, and silicon design is blended with software application knowledge and industry-standard technologies to solve unique computing challenges. We work closely with our customers to architect solutions that have a meaningful impact on everyday life: detecting aneurysms; designing safer, more fuel-efficient aircraft; identifying security threats; discovering oil; developing new drugs; and visualizing virtually every aspect of scientific investigation.
Mercury’s comprehensive, purpose-built solutions capture, process, and present data for the world’s largest medical imaging companies, 8 of the 10 top defense prime contractors, and other leading Fortune 500 and mid-market companies in semiconductor, energy, telecommunications, and other industries. Our dedication to performance excellence and collaborative innovation continues a 24-year history in enabling customers to stay at the forefront of the markets they serve.
Mercury is based in Chelmsford, Massachusetts and serves customers worldwide through a broad network of direct sales offices, subsidiaries, and distributors. We are listed on the Nasdaq Global Select Market (NASDAQ: MRCY). Visit Mercury at www.mc.com.
Forward-Looking Safe Harbor Statement
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements, as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including those relating to the Avizo product family from Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. You can identify these statements by our use of the words “may,” “will,” “should,” “plans,” “expects,” “anticipates,” “continue,” “estimate,” “project,” “intend,” and similar expressions. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected or anticipated. Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, general economic and business conditions, including unforeseen weakness in the Company’s markets, effects of continued geo-political unrest and regional conflicts, competition, changes in technology and methods of marketing, delays in completing engineering and manufacturing programs, changes in customer order patterns, changes in product mix, continued success in technological advances and delivering technological innovations, continued funding of defense programs, the timing of such funding, changes in the U.S. Government’s interpretation of federal procurement rules and regulations, market acceptance of the Company's products, shortages in components, production delays due to performance quality issues with outsourced components, inability to fully realize the expected benefits from acquisitions or delays in realizing such benefits, challenges in integrating acquired businesses and achieving anticipated synergies, and difficulties in retaining key customers. These risks and uncertainties also include such additional risk factors as are discussed in the Company's recent filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2007. The Company cautions readers not to place undue reliance upon any such forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date made. The Company undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances after the date on which such statement is made.
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Contacts:
Laurent Billy
Marketing & Operations Mgr.
Visualization Sciences Group
Mercury Computer Systems
lbilly@mc.com
http://3dviz.mc.com
+33 556 13 71 50
Leigh McLeod
Media Relations
Corporate Marketing
Mercury Computer Systems
lmcleod@mc.com
978-967-1120
Kathy Sniezek
Public Relations Manager
Corporate Marketing
Mercury Computer Systems
ksniezek@mc.com
978-967-1126
Open Inventor is a registered trademark of Silicon
Graphics, Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries worldwide, used under
license from Silicon Graphics, Inc. Avizo, amira and Challenges Drive
Innovation are trademarks of Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. Other product
and company
names mentioned may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their
respective holders.
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