Cray Inc. Ranks High On `Top500' Processor Speed Test; New, More Comprehensive Test of Whole-System Performance Due Out Next Week.Business Editors/Technology Writers SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 9, 2001 Cray Inc. (Nasdaq:CRAY) today said its supercomputers again were among the largest and fastest in the latest independent list of the world's "Top500 Supercomputer Sites," which ranks supercomputer systems according to their theoretical processor speeds. In the theoretical test, the average Cray system on the list ranked second among major vendors at 578.8 processors and a theoretical speed of 361.1 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. ). Aggregate theoretical processor speed for the 39 Cray systems listed was 14.1 trillion calculations per second (teraflops). Cray was first at U.S. government classified sites, providing fully 58 percent of the theoretical processor speed in that category. Cray officials said they are looking forward to the results of a new, more-comprehensive test from market research firm IDC. IDC plans to issue results for its "Balanced Rating Benchmark" next week at SC2001, the annual conference of the high-performance computing community. The IDC Balanced Rating Benchmark supplements the Linpack test that is the basis for the "Top500" list by evaluating computer systems on their scalability and memory system capabilities, as well as their processor performance. The "Top500 Supercomputing Sites" list is compiled and published by Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee The University of Tennessee (UT), sometimes called the University of Tennessee at Knoxville (UT Knoxville or UTK), is the flagship institution of the statewide land-grant University of Tennessee public university system in the American state of Tennessee. ; Hans Meuer, University of Mannheim The University of Mannheim is one of the younger German universities. Though it sees its roots back to the Kurpfälzische Akademie der Wissenschaften of 1763, the actual university was founded in 1907 as college for economics. (Germany); and Erich Strohmaier and Horst Simon from the NERSC NERSC National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (new name) NERSC Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center (Bergen, Norway) NERSC National Energy Research Supercomputer Center organization at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, scientific research centers run by the Univ. of California, located in Berkeley, Calif., and Livermore, Calif., respectively. . The list can be viewed at www.top500.org. 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, and Cray SV1(TM) and SV2 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 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 quarterly report on Form 10-Q. Cray is a registered trademark, and Cray SV1ex, Cray SV1, Cray MTA-2, Cray SV2 and Cray T3E are trademarks, of Cray Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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