Cray Inc. Delivers First Cray SV1ex System to Arctic Region Supercomputing Center.Business/High-Tech Editors SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 17, 2001 Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (Nasdaq:CRAY) today announced the installation of the first Cray SV1ex(TM) supercomputer at the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center The Arctic Region Supercomputing Center (ARSC) is a research facility organized under the University of Alaska Fairbanks. It is funded by the United States Department of Defense, and is a member of the department's High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP). (ARSC ARSC Arctic Region Supercomputing Center ARSC Association for Recorded Sound Collections ARSC Accounting and Review Services Committee ARSC Aircraft Repair and Supply Center (USCG) ARSC Arizona Remote Sensing Center ), University of Alaska Fairbanks UAF is home to seven major research units: the Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station; the Geophysical Institute, which operates the Poker Flat Research Range; the International Arctic Research Center; the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center; the Institute of Arctic Biology; the . The system, part of a $3 million contract announced last September, replaces ARSC's Cray SV1(TM) supercomputer. Additional enhancements to the system memory are scheduled for later this quarter. "The Cray SV1ex is part of ARSC's ongoing effort to provide top high-performance computing resources to its users," said ARSC Director Dr. Frank Williams. "We're proud to have this opportunity to share Cray's excitement in this cutting edge technology and are thrilled to be the first to offer this improvement to our scientists and researchers." ARSC's government and academic researchers will use the Cray SV1ex supercomputer to study atmospheric, environmental and geophysical problems unique to the Arctic, polar regions and higher latitudes. The system's high-end performance, improved clock speed and extremely high-speed cache memory will be especially beneficial to ARSC users running applications in ocean modeling, climatology climatology Branch of atmospheric science concerned with describing climate and analyzing the causes and practical consequences of climatic differences and changes. Climatology treats the same atmospheric processes as meteorology, but it also seeks to identify slower-acting and space physics. A research team led by Uma Bhatt, of the International Arctic Research Center The International Arctic Research Center, or IARC, established in 1999[1], is a research institution focused on integrating and coordinating study of climate change in the Arctic. The primary partners in IARC are Japan and the United States. (IARC) Frontier Research System for Global Change, will use ARSC's Cray SV1ex supercomputer to apply a global climate model that simulates the atmospheric response to changes in sea ice over the Arctic ocean. These simulations will help the team to understand how shrinking sea ice affects the atmosphere. While researchers traditionally study the tropics tropics, also called tropical zone or torrid zone, all the land and water of the earth situated between the Tropic of Cancer at lat. 23 1-2°N and the Tropic of Capricorn at lat. 23 1-2°S. for clues to the origin of global weather patterns, this project is one of the first to investigate how changes in the Arctic may influence world climate. "It's a pleasure to ship our first SV1ex to ARSC with significantly more power and better price/performance than previously indicated," said Cray Inc. Chairman and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Jim Rottsolk. "And it's a privilege to work alongside the user base of this long-time customer, providing the computing platforms for their breakthrough science." "We're excited about the SV1ex's increased performance and appreciate Cray's efforts to create what we are confident will be an excellent product for our users," said Virginia Bedford, director of technical services at ARSC. The Cray SV1ex enhanced product line is the technological forerunner to the Cray SV2(TM) supercomputer due out in the second half of 2002. It is a binary-compatible upgrade path for Cray SV1 and Cray J90(TM) customers. Each Cray SV1ex processor has a peak performance of two billion calculations per second (gigaflops (GIGA FLoating point OPerations per Second) One billion floating point operations per second. See FLOPS. (unit) gigaflops - (GFLOPS) One thousand million (10^9) floating point operations per second. ). About ARSC ARSC supports computational research in science and engineering with an emphasis on high latitudes and the Arctic. The center provides high performance computational, visualization, networking and data storage resources for researchers within the Department of Defense, the University of Alaska Fairbanks, other academic institutions and government agencies. About Cray Inc. Cray Inc. designs, builds and sells high-performance MPP (Massively Parallel Processing or Massively Parallel Processor) A multiprocessing architecture that uses up to thousands of processors. Some might contend that a computer system with 64 or more CPUs is a massively parallel processor. , vector processor and general-purpose parallel computer systems. The company has leading edge technology, multiple product platforms, nearly 900 employees, a worldwide installed base of supercomputer systems, major manufacturing and service capabilities and extensive global customer relationships. Cray believes its Multithreaded multithreaded - multithreading Architecture and Cray T3E(TM), Cray SuperCluster su·per·clus·ter n. A group of neighboring clusters of galaxies. supercluster A large group of neighboring clusters of galaxies, along with isolated galaxies scattered between them, the entire collection (R) and Cray SV2 systems together represent the future of supercomputing. Go to www.cray.com for more information on 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. Among such risk factors are expected delivery and acceptance times, and timely availability of commercially acceptable components from third party suppliers. For a discussion of such risks, and other risks that could affect Cray's future performance, please see "Factors That Could Affect Future Results" in Cray Inc.'s annual report on Form 10-K. Cray and SuperCluster are registered trademarks, and Cray SV1ex, Cray SV1, Cray SV2, Cray T3E and Cray J90 are trademarks, of Cray Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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