Cray Announces Advance Order for Cray XD1 System From DOE'S Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Early System Scheduled To Be Shipped This Month.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 15, 2004 Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (NasdaqNM:CRAY) today announced that the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) is one of nine United States Department of Energy (DOE) multiprogram national laboratories. The laboratory PNNL is located in Richland, Washington, and operates a marine research facility in Sequim, Washington. (PNNL PNNL Pacific Northwest National Laboratory ) has placed an advance order for a Cray XD1(TM) system. Financial terms were not disclosed. An early version of the Cray XD1 system is scheduled to be shipped later this month and installed at PNNL's Richland, Washington Richland is a city in Benton County in southeastern Washington, at the confluence of the Yakima River and the Columbia River. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 38,708, with a 2005 population estimate of 43,520. facility. PNNL will use the system to advance research in areas including power grid simulation, life science research and information analysis. This will be the first Cray XD1 system made available to the scientific community. The early system will be upgraded to a production model in the fall of 2004, Cray officials said. Development of the renamed Cray XD1 system has continued within Cray since the company acquired OctigaBay Systems and its workforce in April 2004. The Cray XD1 system strongly exploits high volume technologies such as AMD (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, www.amd.com) A major manufacturer of semiconductor devices including x86-compatible CPUs, embedded processors, flash memories, programmable logic devices and networking chips. Opteron(TM) processors and HyperTransport(TM) technology, as well as the Linux operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. , while innovating with a high performance system interconnect known as RapidArray(TM), an automated management infrastructure, and the opportunity to accelerate application performance through the use of field programmable gate arrays See FPGA. . George Michaels, PNNL associate laboratory director, said the lab's acquisition of the Cray XD1 system will enable PNNL "to continue our leadership in applying high-performance scientific computing to some of the nation's most important problems. The Cray XD1 will be an indispensable tool for PNNL engineers and scientists to bring a new approach to simulate and analyze faster, solve more complex data intensive problems, and bring science to solutions sooner." Scott Studham, associate director of the PNNL's advanced computing effort, explained that the Cray XD1 is the first HPC (Handheld PC) A palmtop computer that weighs less than one pound and runs specialized versions of popular applications. Microsoft coined the term for its Windows CE operating system, which is an abbreviated version of Windows. See Pocket PC. product to locate field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) near memory, a feature that makes it particularly valuable for high-performance scientific computing. "The new system's hardware can be reconfigured to quickly free up massive amounts of memory for compute-intensive and data-intensive science," Studham said. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Peter Ungaro, Cray's vice president of worldwide sales and marketing, "We are truly excited that a leading research institute such as PNNL has selected Cray as a high performance computing partner and will take advantage of our new Cray XD1 server as the computing platform See platform. for some of their most important research initiatives. For a broad spectrum of scientific and engineering problem, the Cray XD1 system is going to enable revolutionary breakthroughs that just aren't possible on similarly priced HPC cluster products." The Cray XD1 system is designed around the Direct Connected Processor architecture, an innovative approach that directly links together processors to provide 30 times higher bandwidth and 30 times lower latency than typical cluster systems available today. Other Cray XD1 innovations include an applications accelerator, reconfigurable logic (FPGAs), self-monitoring and self-healing features for high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. , and single system command and control for simplified system administration. Early shipments of the Cray XD1 product are scheduled for the second half of 2004, with general availability in early 2005. Pricing, to be announced To be announced (TBA) A contract for the purchase or sale of an MBS to be delivered at an agreed-upon future date but does not include a specified pool number and number of pools or precise amount to be delivered. later this year, is expected to range from under $100,000 to about $2 million. About Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) is a DOE Office of Science laboratory that solves complex problems in energy, national security, the environment and life sciences by advancing the understanding of physics, chemistry, biology and computation. PNNL employs 3,800 staff, has a $600 million annual budget, and has been managed by Ohio-based Battelle since the lab's inception in 1965. Business and public inquiries on this and other PNNL research and technologies should be directed to 1-888-375-PNNL or inquiry@pnl.gov. About Cray Inc. Cray's mission is to be the premier provider of high performance computing for its customers' most challenging scientific and engineering problems. Go to www.cray.com for more information about the company. Safe Harbor Safe Harbor 1. A legal provision to reduce or eliminate liability as long as good faith is demonstrated. 2. A form of shark repellent implemented by a target company acquiring a business that is so poorly regulated that the target itself is less attractive. Statement This press release contains forward-looking statements. There are certain factors that could cause Cray's execution plans to differ materially from those anticipated by the statements above. These include the successful porting of application programs to Cray systems and general economic and market conditions. For a discussion of these and other risks, see "Factors That Could Affect Future Results" in Cray's most recent Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q Form 10-Q See 10-Q. filed with the SEC. 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