Visual Numerics, Inc. Visual Numerics offers
two product lines: the IMSL Numerical Libraries for powerful mathematical
and statistical analysis and the PV -WAVE visual data analysis
development environment.

Major corporations, academic institutions , and research laboratories
worldwide use Visual Numerics' software tools, including such high profile
companies as: Bear, Stearns & Company; Barclays Global Investors;
Priceline.

About FineGround
FineGround is the leading provider of network appliances that accelerate
and optimize application and file delivery across the extended enterprise.

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FineGround to Present at Data Centres Europe 2005

Top
electronics companies worldwide, including leaders in the wireless,
automotive , and consumer electronics space, have achieved dramatic reductions
in design cycle time through their use of Summit's products. For more information about MathStar, Inc.

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and other countries.

WHERE: Data Centres Europe
Kingsway Hall Hotel
Great Queen Street
Covent Garden
London, WC2B 5BX

For more information or to register for Data Centres Europe 2005 please
visit the conference Web site at http://www.

MathStar Inc. and Summit Design Inc. Extend Partnership With SystemC Design Tools for Field-Programmable Object Arrays(TM)

"MathStar's partnership with Summit Design provides our customers and
intellectual property (IP) development partners with a design environment
based upon the industry-leading Visual Elite SystemC ESL tools," said Dan
Sweeney, Chief Operating Officer, MathStar, Inc. "It allows customers to
rapidly develop designs using MathStar's current and next-generation FPOAs.

Pricing and Availability
The MathStar FPOA development platform, including design tools and
evaluation boards, is immediately available from MathStar. Visual Elite is a state-of-the-
art design, integration , and verification platform that simplifies and
accelerates ESL and HDL-based designs, leading the market in high-level design
and reuse. with offices throughout the US, Europe,
Japan, Israel, and ROA.com .

Any statements about MathStar, Inc.'s future expectations, including
future revenues and earnings, and all other statements in this press release
other than historical facts are "forward-looking statements" within the
meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 , Section 21E of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and as that term is defined in the Private
Litigation Reform Act of 1995.

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Feedback
solicited from the editorial board helped solidify the readers' selections.0 offers the broadest
collection of mathematical, statistical, financial , and charting classes
and is designed to provide a fast, scalable framework for tailored
analytical applications, enabling users in the fields of finance, business
intelligence, bioinformatics and life sciences to easily create customized
applications for data mining and predictive analysis of complex data.0 includes neural network
technology that adds to the already broad selection of data mining,
modeling and prediction technologies available across the IMSL family of
products. For example,
companies can extract information such as historical cost data and apply
this data to the neural network to forecast future costs with greater
precision."
"MathStar is a proven leader in high-performance designs with its FPOA
devices, and has been a leading proponent in the use of Summit Design's ESL
solutions as a means for customers to program their FPOAs," said Dr. Pricing for the
development platform can be obtained directly from MathStar at
info@mathstar.

About the Companies
Summit Design's industry-leading ESL and HDL solutions enable SOC
companies to deliver products that meet system-level performance and power
targets with dramatically reduced schedule risk.

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As the only comprehensive, 100% Java numerical analysis package available,
the JMSL Numerical Library Version 3.

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Trademark Statement:

Visual Numerics and PV-WAVE are registered trademarks of Visual Numerics,
Inc.com .

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The 2005 award winners, announced in the
December 2005 issue, were chosen based on an assessment and tracking of
popular products among readers throughout a 12-month period.com.
Through a unique combination of application-specific techniques for bandwidth
reduction, latency management, protocol transformation and server offloading ,
FineGround's data center solutions optimize the performance of interactive
applications and file systems across wide area networks (WANs).
(Nasdaq: MATH), the Field Programmable Object Array (FPOA ) leader, and Summit
Design, a leading provider of electronic system-level (ESL) and hardware
description language (HDL) design solutions, today announced an extension of
their relationship to provide Visual Elite(TM) SystemC-based design libraries
for MathStar's FPOA technology., please visit
the company 's website at http://www.

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"We are
delighted that MathStar has chosen to OEM Summit's Visual Elite as an integral
part of their FPOA development flow.

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FineGround is a privately held, venture-backed
company headquartered in Campbell, California with regional headquarters in
London and Hong Kong , and on the Web at http://www."
MathStar is currently sampling the first of its FPOA products , the
SOA13D40-01 device, which offers 400 Silicon Objects running at an operating
frequency of 1 Gigahertz.

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IMSL, JMSL, JWAVE, TS-WAVE and
Knowledge in Motion are trademarks of Visual Numerics , Inc.

Vista(TM) and Visual Elite(TM) ensure swift, successful
design modeling and implementation in SystemC, Verilog, and VHDL. Such forward-looking statements involve risks
and uncertainties and are subject to change at any time, and the company's
actual results could differ materially from expected results.

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FineGround's
Velocity appliances for enterprise application delivery (EAD) and wide area
file services (WAFS) are used by more than 100 of the world's largest global
enterprises , including Alcoa, BMW, Cargill, Royal Mail, Sun Microsystems,
Walgreens and Whirlpool.

MathStar designs and develops ultra-high performance semiconductors for
image processing, digital signal processing, and embedded reprogrammable logic
markets.

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The company's
software products help users understand complex data from a variety of
sources and build business-critical applications . Visual Numerics also offers customized
professional services for applications that involve mathematical ,
statistical, or visual data analysis to meet today's business analytical
needs.com . Summit Design is
headquartered in Burlington, Mass.

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0 for Java has been
honored as the 2005 Product of the Year award winner in the Mathematics
category by the readers and editorial board of Scientific Computing &
Instrumentation magazine.

WHAT: In a session entitled, "Strategies for Data Centres to Serve
the Extended Enterprise," Link will discuss ways in which IT
managers for global companies can overcome the challenges
involved in providing consistent IT service levels across the
extended enterprise to remote workers, branch offices and
partners.

WHEN: Friday, April 29, 2005 at 12:15 p.sd.

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"We are
thrilled about being named one of Scientific Computing & Instrumentation's
2005 product winners and hold this accolade in high esteem.m.mathstar.

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Founded by communications industry veteran Douglas M. Pihl, MathStar
is a development stage company headquartered in the Minneapolis, MN
metropolitan area.
undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements to reflect
subsequently occurring events or circumstances.

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com; Humana, Sandia National Laboratories; and Boeing Company.

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About Visual Numerics

Visual Numerics has provided technical software solutions for numerical
analysis and visualization for more than three decades.

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For more information about Visual Numerics, please visit
www., FineGround Inc. Attendees will learn effective strategies for
enterprise application delivery in the extended enterprise,
ways to customize application delivery solutions, and
best-practices to align IT services with business demands.fineground . Emil
Girczyc, President and Chief Executive Officer, Summit Design, Inc.

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PRESS RELEASE Visual Numerics (R) Wins a Scientific Computing +amp; Instrumentation 2005 Product of the Year Award

, celebrating 35 years
of producing leading numerical analysis and visualization software, today
announced that its JMSL Numerical Library version 3.

"When we are honored with a reader's choice award, we know we're moving in
the right direction and giving our business, technical, and scientific
audiences the right data analysis tools to solve complex industry
problems," said Phil Fraher, president and CEO of Visual Numerics.

In addition, the JMSL Numerical Library 3.
This large and diverse customer base is supported through a direct sales
force, wholly owned international subsidiaries , and international
distributors.S., the leader in
application and file delivery across the extended enterprise, today announced
that Rich Link, FineGround's European General Manager, will be a featured
speaker at Data Centres Europe 2005, the premiere data centre event in Europe.datacentreseurope.

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MathStar FPOA Development Platform With Summit Design's Visual Elite is
Available for IC Designers and Third-Party Intellectual Property Developers

MINNEAPOLIS, MathStar, Inc . Using the MathStar FPOA development platform,
customers can implement their specific algorithms in the machine vision, image
processing, high performance video, military/aerospace and wireless
basestation market segments. MathStar, Inc.

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The neural network technology was developed to mimic human
problem-solving processes by applying knowledge gained from historical data
to new situations , enabling businesses to build predictive models that
increase in accuracy as more information is obtained. All other
company, product or brand names are the property of their respective
owners .com or send email to
info@mathstar.

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in the U.com/ . System Architect(TM) enables massive increases in design complexity
and performance by analyzing architectural tradeoffs to arrive at optimized
system specifications. To learn more, please visit http://www.

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com. Summit's products address
engineering challenges met during the specification and implementation design
phases of complex hardware/software systems.