High Performance Storage Solutions

August 2010

Slide 2 Panasas, Inc.

Panasas Summary

Unique high performance storage solutions

• Exceptional performance, scalability and manageability

Blue chip customers

Outstanding 2009 financial performance in a tough market

Worldwide network of partners and resellers

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The Market - Scale-Out NAS

Enterprise NAS

Business ApplicationsERP

FinanceCRM

Other mission critical

HPCModeling

SimulationSeismic ProcessingHigh Energy Physics

ResearchEDA, OPC

Monte Carlo simulations

Technical ApplicationsRisk ManagementDesign Computing

Financial trading system simulations

Genome archivingDrug Discovery

SW DevelopmentCAE

Home directories for engineers

Technical Enterprise

Panasas solves the most difficult storage problems with high reliability in an easy to use

appliance-like package

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Improving Time-to-Market

Every processor since 2006 developed, simulated and produced with Panasas

storage systems

Upgrade to PAS 9 improved time-to-results by 30%.

Leading Semiconductor Company

Market segment – Manufacturing

Application – New product simulation and modeling

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Meeting Mission-Critical Deadlines

6X efficiency improvement in completing seismic processing jobs

High availability performance in extremely demanding environment (onboard survey ship)

Increased oil discovery success rate

Market segment – Energy

Application – Seismic processing

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Delivering Unprecedented ROI

Breakthrough trading algorithm analysis

100X more simulations in same timeframe

“ROI with Panasas was 8 hours”

Global Hedge Fund

Market segment – Finance

Application – Trading system simulation and optimization

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Accelerating Research & Time to Market

Use Panasas for complete life science workflow – from genomic sequencing data capture and analysis to computational chemistry to home directories

5X performance improvement in genetic modeling simulations

Uppsala UniversitySweden

Market segment – Life sciences

Application – Molecular modeling and genome archiving

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Solving Complex Problems at Lower Cost

Faster and more accurate design certification on the Boeing

787 – improved air flow simulations at a cost reduction

of over 90% from previous methods

Market segment – Aerospace

Application – Structural mechanics simulation and design

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Solving Complex Design Problems

Solved problem of increasing efficiency of filling cans with chips and getting seasoning on both sides

Absorbency rate analysis

Market segment – Manufacturing

Application – Computational Fluid Dynamics

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High Performance Modeling

Complex wind tunnel modeling and analysis

Result - Formula 1 race Winner

Market segment – Automotive

Application – Dynamic modeling and simulation

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High Performance Storage Solutions

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The Panasas Difference

PanFS Storage Operating System

Patented single file system

Global namespace

Infinite scale

DirectFLOW® client S/W

Parallel and direct access

pNFS open source standard

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Panasas Advantages

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Standards Leadership

Parallel NFS (pNFS) Standard

• Based on Panasas architecture, authorship, and technical contributions

• pNFS standard (NFS v. 4.1) approved 2009

•pNFS deployments in 2011

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Panasas Cloud Computing

Public Cloud - Partnered with Penguin Computing o Penguin on Demand (POD) offering

o HPC as a service in the cloud

Private Cloud - Connect for Education customer success o Private cloud for 200K students across 1500 colleges and universities

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