TOKYO –– June 22, 2004 –– Tokyo Electron Limited (TEL) announced Tuesday that Scalar i2000, one of the products handled by its Computer Network Division, has been adopted as the backup unit of a storage system in the AIST Super Cluster in the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST; Location: Tsukuba City, Ibaraki Prefecture; President: Hiroyuki Yoshikawa). AIST Super Cluster, a cluster computer featuring the top aggregate computing performance in Japan, began operations in May 2004. SGI SAN Server S600™ from SGI Japan, Limited. (Head Office: Shibuya-ku, Tokyo; President: Norio Izumi) was delivered as its storage system.

Designed for use in storage area network (SAN) environments, ADIC's Scalar i2000 provides highly reliable backup processing at high speeds. Employing a housing with a 19-inch rack size enables efficient space arrangement for a group of racks for AIST Super Cluster in the data center and measures for earthquake resistance.

TEL focused on SANs at an early date, first offering fiber channel fabric switches from Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. in 1997. TEL has also been making efforts to offer comprehensive SAN solutions, as exemplified by its April 2004 launch in Japan of tape library products from Advanced Digital Information Corp. (ADIC), which enjoys top global share of the open tape library market.

Features of ADIC's Scalar i2000

-	Capable of installing up to 48 LTO-2 drives
-	Has an LTO-2 drive to store data with a maximum of 334TB in non-compressed mode (with 1,674 slots)
-	Has a data path conditioning function that enables even small amounts of data to be converted into an optimal size as well as high-speed recording depending on the drive specification
-	Has the function of total system monitoring and fault notification
-	Employs a housing with a 19-inch rack size, enabling efficient space arrangement

About ADIC

Advanced Digital Information Corporation (NASDAQ: ADIC) is a leading provider of Intelligent Storage™ solutions to the open systems marketplace. ADIC is the world's largest supplier of automated tape systems using the drive technologies most often employed for backing up open system, client-server networks.* The Company's data management software, storage networking appliances, and disk-to-tape data protection solutions provide IT managers innovative tools for storing, managing and protecting their most valuable digital assets in a variety of disk and tape environments. ADIC storage products are available through a worldwide sales force and a global network of resellers and OEMs, including Cray, Dell, Fujitsu-Siemens, HP, IBM and Sun. Further information about ADIC is available at www.adic.com.