Cray Inc. Announces Professional Services Contract With Applied Technical Systems, Inc.; Cray to Extend CCM Data Mining Technology to Supercomputing Platforms.Business Editors, Technology Writers SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 30, 2002 Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (Nasdaq:CRAY) today announced that it has entered into a professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. contract with Applied Technical Systems, Inc. (ATS) headquartered in Silverdale, Washington Silverdale is a census-designated place (CDP) in Kitsap County, Washington, in the United States. As of the 2000 census, the CDP population was 15,816. Despite many attempts at incorporation, Silverdale remains an unincorporated community, located on the Kitsap Peninsula, . The contract's goal is to link ATS' patented data mining system, the Contiguous Connection Model, to supercomputer power. The contract, estimated to be worth more than $800,000, calls for a full-time Cray professional services team comprised of computer scientists and applications experts to work on this project for a year, and contains provisions for follow-on work. "Our patented Contiguous Connection Model (CCM CCM Contemporary Christian Music CCM Critical Care Medicine CCM County College of Morris (New Jersey) CCM Chama Cha Mapinduzi (political party, Tanzania) CCM CORBA Component Model ) is an advanced correlation engine which automatically extracts hidden and obscure relationships from any source of free text, such as the Internet, corporate document stores and existing databases," said ATS president Brian Welter. "CCM automatically discovers and stores the inherent relationships hidden in the information being analyzed. The result is a relevancy maximized information set that can be easily browsed or searched. Additionally, the persistently stored relationships result in virtually instantaneous information retrieval information retrieval Recovery of information, especially in a database stored in a computer. Two main approaches are matching words in the query against the database index (keyword searching) and traversing the database using hypertext or hypermedia links. . For example, we developed a product for law enforcement agencies A law enforcement agency (LEA) is a term used to describe any agency which enforces the law. This may be a local or state police, federal agencies such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) or the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). that enables investigators to gather information from multiple disparate sources, such as credit reports, NCIC NCIC National Crime Information Center NCIC National Cancer Institute of Canada NCIC North Carolina Industrial Commission NCIC National Cartographic Information Center NCIC National Cancer Information Center (American Cancer Society) reports and telephone records, into a single searchable information store which automatically reveals important unexpected relationships." "Our work with Cray involves developing an application for agencies of the U.S. Department of Defense based on our technology that will enable them to correlate and analyze information from a variety of sources," added Welter. "Currently we are limited to single-processor systems and relatively low volumes of data. We are excited to work with Cray to extend this application to supercomputer platforms, and are particularly interested in the large shared memory (1) Using part of main memory to support a low-cost display circuit that does not have its own memory. See shared video memory. (2) The common memory in a symmetric multiprocessing system that is available to all CPUs. See SMP. 1. and high bandwidth attributes of the Cray MTA-2 system," said Welter. Added Kevin Rogers, Cray's professional services practice leader: "This is an excellent example of how Cray's expertise in the design and development of supercomputer applications, as well as hardware, can assist other companies in developing true 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. solutions. With ATS, we will help redesign and implement the CCM system to be more modular, scalable, portable and extensible. While our work will be platform independent, we will look closely at the attributes of the MTA-2 system as well as other viable platforms for future development," added Rogers. "Cray is dedicated to advancing supercomputing architecture and applications," added Cray president Jim Rottsolk. "The collaboration with ATS demonstrates how we can combine two high performance technologies and produce powerful results that benefit both companies." About Applied Technical Systems, Inc. ATS is a technology company located in Silverdale, Washington, with regional offices in Seattle and Washington D.C. ATS specializes in creating information management and knowledge discovery systems based on its patented technology, the Contiguous Connection Model. See www.apptechsys.com for more information about ATS. About Cray Inc. Cray is the premier provider of supercomputing solutions for 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 forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. . There are certain factors that could cause Cray's execution plans to differ materially from those anticipated by the statements above. Among these factors are the technical challenges of porting application systems to high performance computer platforms, the risks in the development of high performance computing systems, the limited market for third party application software and general economic and market risks. For a discussion of these and other risks, see "Factors That Could Affect Future Results" in Cray's 2001 Annual Report on Form 10-K Form 10-K A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information. Form 10-K See 10-K. . Cray is a registered trademark, and Cray MTA-2 is a trademark, of Cray Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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