Cray Inc. MTA-2 System Accepted by Naval Research Laboratory.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 8, 2002 Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (Nasdaq:CRAY) today announced that a 40-processor, all-CMOS Cray MTA-2(TM) system with a revolutionary multithreaded multithreaded - multithreading architecture has completed customer acceptance testing (programming) acceptance testing - Formal testing conducted to determine whether a system satisfies its acceptance criteria and thus whether the customer should accept the system. at the Washington, D.C. facilities of the Naval Research Laboratory Noun 1. Naval Research Laboratory - the United States Navy's defense laboratory that conducts basic and applied research for the Navy in a variety of scientific and technical disciplines NRL (NRL Noun 1. NRL - the United States Navy's defense laboratory that conducts basic and applied research for the Navy in a variety of scientific and technical disciplines Naval Research Laboratory ). Cray provided the Cray MTA-2 system to NRL under a contract with Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) is an aerospace and defense conglomerate that is the result of the 1994 purchase of Grumman by Northrop. The company is the third largest defense contractor for the U.S. Information Technology, a premier provider of advanced IT solutions, engineering and business services for government and commercial businesses. NRL is a leading-edge Distributed Center within the Department of Defense's High Performance Computing Modernization Program. NRL's mission is to explore and evaluate innovative computing and networking technologies. Researchers will apply the Cray MTA-2 to major challenges in the physical, computational and informational sciences, including dynamically adaptive meshes and problems benefiting from advanced scalability and networking. "This is an important milestone for Cray and for high performance computing," said Burton J. Smith, Cray's chief scientist and architect of the MTA-2 system. "We believe that the Cray MTA-2's revolutionary design -- especially its scalable 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. , programming ease and fast IO (input/output) -- will enable unprecedented performance on a range of important, currently intractable problems. We are already working on several projects to port existing programs and to write new programs that take advantage of the Cray MTA-2 attributes." "The Cray MTA-2 system is being made available to NRL users and the Department of Defense national research community. We are excited about evaluating the capabilities of this revolutionary system," said Jeanie Osburn, manager of NRL's High Performance Computing Distributed Center. Each processor in the MTA-2's multithreaded architecture can process up to 128 streams of data at a time, versus a single data stream for most processors, she said. James Rottsolk, Cray's chairman and chief executive officer, said, "We are committed to working with NRL and Northrop Grumman IT to enhance this system and to explore the benefits of multi-threading on a functioning large system The Cray MTA-2 reflects our mission to provide the leading high performance computing technologies and products." About NRL The Naval Research Laboratory is the Department of the Navy's corporate laboratory. NRL conducts a broad program of scientific research, technology, and advanced development. The Laboratory, with a total complement of more than 2,500 personnel, is located in southwest Washington, DC, with other major sites at the Stennis Space Center, MS; and Monterey, CA. 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 developing new high performance computer systems, the ability of Cray supercomputer systems Three firms have held, simultaneously, the name Supercomputer Systems or Supercomputing Systems. The first was founded by Steve Chen, architect of the Cray X-MP and Cray Y-MP. The second was based in San Diego, California, USA. to pass individual customer acceptance tests, timely availability of commercially acceptable components from third-party suppliers and general economic and market conditions. For a discussion of these and other risks, see "Factors That Could Affect Future Results" in Cray's current Report on Form 8-K Form 8-K The form required by the SEC when a publicly held company incurs any event that might affect its financial situation or the share value of its stock. Form 8-K See 8-K. , dated September 3, 2002. 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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