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Super Computer Inc, the world’s fastest growing game hosting solution, today announced it is working with the U.S. Army to provide it with supercomputers and high-end gaming services for running the America’s Army: Operations online computer game.

In addition, SCI has set up the www.GoAmericasArmy.com rental program for the gaming community to rent their own servers running on state-of-the-art high performance computing technology.

The Army is utilizing SCI’s supercomputer that delivers game server access with unsurpassed speeds, reliability and value. SCI hosts the game servers on the fastest datacenter in the world and on the fastest gaming platform.

With the world’s fastest online gaming computer, Jupiter One (Atlanta) at 1.13 TFlops, connected in UUNet’s Mega-Hub with 8 OC-192’s, SCI provides enterprise-class back-end solutions for the gaming industry. The cluster used for the America’s Army: Operations game was heralded as one of the 50 fastest computers in the world at Super Computer Show in Baltimore this year.

“Super Computer, Inc. was created for the 58 million online computer game players in order to improve the quality of their online gaming play,” said Jesper Jensen, president and CEO at Super Computer Inc.

“We’re excited to be working with the Army on the America’s Army game. SCI’s unique, state-of-the-art products along with its premium positioning in the gaming industry will help the Army deliver the best gaming experience to its audience and broaden the community that has made America’s Army: Operations one of the most popular games on the Web.”

“The Army prides itself on using the highest technology available to communicate with and provide information to our Soldiers,” said Colonel Casey Wardynski, project originator and manager.

“We are mirroring this effort with the America’s Army game by working with industry’s leading technology providers to provide America’s Army players with the best possible virtual Soldier experience.”

With GoAmericasArmy.com, the gaming community may rent their own servers to run America’s Army: Operations in the fastest game server environment with the highest bandwidth available in the world.

All servers rented through www.GoAmericasArmy.com run on a high-performance clustered supercomputer using cutting-edge server control and management technology.

“GoAmericasArmy.com was specifically designed to come with automated control features for the users, where the users can perform all the functions that would give full control over his/her rented server.

Some of the features include the ability to restart the server, remotely control the server, add additional users to admin the server, change profiles, and view the account information,” said Jay Majumdar, vice president of Sales for SCI.

“Super Computer Inc. has a commitment to its customers to test every product and technology we sell to determine how it enhances the gaming environment,” Majumdar said. “SCI’s powerful cluster technology and super computers provide the ultimate combination of advanced functionality and powerful Super Computer cluster performance in one ultra-compact solution."

Since the America’s Army: Operations game debuted on July 4th it has been one of the most popular games online. The Army has recorded more than 1.2 million registered user accounts with more than 740,000 players completing basic training.

Gamers have played more than 52 million missions and the average number of completed missions per day is 450,000. The game has received accolades from the gaming and national press and was recently awarded Computer Gaming World’s Editor’s Choice award.