Cray Inc. Receives Cray T3E Supercomputer Order From CSC for Army Engineer Research and Development Center.Business Editors/High Tech Writers SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 26, 2001 Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (Nasdaq NM: CRAY) today announced it has received an order for a Cray T3E(TM) supercomputer system upgrade to be placed at the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center The Engineer Research and Development Center or ERDC is a United States government funded military base located at Vicksburg, Mississippi. The base was set up after the 1927 flood disaster of the Mississippi River. The base is staffed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. (ERDC ERDC Engineer Research and Development Center ERDC Economic Research and Development Center ERDC Eleanor Roosevelt Democratic Club (Orange County, California) ERDC Exploratory Research and Development Center ERDC Extended Response Data Call ) in Vicksburg, Miss. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The subcontract with Computer Sciences Corporation (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : CSC), ERDC's Major Shared Resource Center (MSRC MSRC Microsoft Security Response Center MSRC Major Shared-Resource Center (Army Research Laboratory) MSRC Marine Sciences Research Center MSRC Mobile Source Air Pollution Reduction Review Committee MSRC Marine Spill Response Corporation ) integration contractor, calls for a Cray T3E system upgrade to be completed in the third quarter of 2001. The upgrade will increase the Cray T3E configuration from 512 to 768 application processors. The ERDC MSRC is a premier provider of high performance computing (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. ) services and support to the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP HPCMP High Performance Computing Modernization Program (DoD) HPCMP High-Performance Computer Monitoring Project ), supporting more than 5,000 scientists and engineers engaged in DoD research and development activities. The center operates high-performance systems from multiple vendors to address DoD user requirements. With this upgrade, the center's Cray T3E system remains the center's premier highly scalable resource for problems demanding extremely high performance. The Cray T3E system is widely recognized as the most technically successful highly scalable computer and set the world record for sustained performance on a full 64-bit application. "We have upgraded our T3E several times over the past five years. The system continues to be the chosen resource in the center to reliably address very large problems. For example, 10 percent of the T3E jobs use 65 percent of all CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. cycles consumed. We are very pleased about offering this increased capability to the DoD community," said Bradley Comes, director of the ERDC Major Shared Resource Center. "We're delighted to continue our long-standing relationship with ERDC. ERDC's decision to upgrade its Cray T3E system attests to the unique capabilities of the system in environments demanding extremely high performance and industry-leading scalability," 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. About CSC Computer Sciences Corporation is a consulting and information technology (IT) services firm that helps clients in industry and government achieve strategic and operational results through the use of technology. In business since 1959, CSC combines the newest technologies with its capabilities in consulting, systems design and integration, IT and business process outsourcing Business process outsourcing (BPO) is the contracting of a specific business task, such as payroll, to a third-party service provider. Usually, BPO is implemented as a cost-saving measure for tasks that a company requires but does not depend upon to maintain its position in , applications software, and Web application hosting to meet the individual needs of global corporations and organizations. About ERDC The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) is the premier research and development laboratory complex for the Corps of Engineers. The ERDC does critical research in the Tri-Service Reliance areas of civil engineering, environmental quality and environmental sciences. More than 2,000 engineers, scientists and support personnel support the $430 million research program. 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 Architecture and Cray T3E, 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. Note to Editors: Cray and SuperCluster are registered trademarks, and Cray SV1, Cray SV2 and Cray T3E are trademarks, of Cray Inc. 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