2008-03-10
Mercury Computer Systems Announces Avizo™ Software Product Line for Advanced Materials Structure Visualization and Analysis
New offering delivers advanced 3D visualization and data analysis capabilities to
explore, analyze and understand materials science data
CHELMSFORD, Mass. – March 10, 2008 – Mercury Computer Systems,
Inc. (NASDAQ: MRCY) announced Avizo™, a new software product line
that provides high-end 3D visualization and quantification capabilities
to researchers and engineers who require great insight into complex materials
structures.
Avizo offers a comprehensive, versatile, scalable application framework that addresses all aspects of 3D data visualization, processing, analysis, and presentation. Based on Open Inventor® by Mercury, Avizo Fire Edition delivers state-of-the art 3D visualization and quantification capabilities, manages complex multi-modality information and handles very large data sets. Its open architecture allows all users to create new custom components for Avizo such as file readers and writers, computation modules, and even new visualization modules.
Avizo Fire Edition offers a complete software suite to obtain meaningful qualitative and quantitative information from the image to the understanding of materials structure.
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 numerous applications in materials science, including materials characterization, surface analysis, quality control, nanotechnology, and industrial tomography.
“3D visualization has revolutionized the understanding of scientific and industrial data,” said Jean Bernard Cazeaux, Vice President of the Visualization Sciences Group at Mercury Computer Systems. “Leveraging our 20 years of expertise in advanced 3D technology and user interfaces, the Avizo product line delivers cutting-edge solutions that offers a broad range of software tools for obtaining and visualizing advanced qualitative and quantitative information on material structure images.”
Avizo 5 has already been adopted by high-end researchers and materials scientists, and will be presented at the TMS 2008 Annual Meeting, March 9-13 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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 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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