Cray Inc. Hires John Levesque, Former Director of IBM Research's Advanced Computing Technology Center.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 28, 2001 Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (Nasdaq NM:CRAY) today announced it has hired high-performance computing industry veteran John Levesque as senior technologist. Among his accomplishments, Levesque created and led IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) Research's Advanced Computing Technology Center (ACTC ACTC Apple Certified Technical Coordinator ACTC Almaden Cycle Touring Club ACTC Associated Colleges of the Twin Cities ACTC All Ceylon Tamil Congress (Sri Lanka) ACTC Association Canadienne de Télévision par Câble ). In his new position, Levesque will evaluate market requirements and technologies, and will lead a number of strategic projects. "John Levesque has an exceptional background and a sterling reputation. We expect him to make begin contributing to the company immediately," said Cray Inc. President 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. Levesque will report to Rene Copeland, vice president of sales and marketing. Before joining Cray Inc., Levesque was director of software development for a privately held provider of storage systems, and led that company's Linux, Unix and Windows initiatives. At IBM Research, the ACTC group Levesque directed worked with users to port and optimize applications for the IBM SP system. Earlier, Levesque was president of Applied Parallel Research, a software firm that developed tools for parallelizing To generate instructions for a parallel processing computer. applications, and a vice president at Pacific Sierra Research, where he led the group that created two well-known high-performance programming tools called VAST and FORGE. He holds double Master of Science degrees in mathematics and physics from the University of New Mexico The University of New Mexico (UNM) is a public university in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It was founded in 1889. It also offers multiple bachelor's, master's, doctoral, and professional degree programs in all areas of the arts, sciences, and engineering. . About Cray Inc. Cray Inc. designs, builds, sells and services supercomputer systems. The company has leading edge technology, multiple product platforms, a worldwide installed base, 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 SV1(TM) and SV2(TM) systems, together with NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. vector products, represent the future of supercomputing. Go to www.cray.com for more information on the company. Safe Harbor 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 quarterly report on Form 10-Q. Cray and SuperCluster are registered trademarks, and Cray SV1, Cray SV2 and Cray T3E are trademarks, of Cray Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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