Cray Inc. Wins Supercomputer Order From Warsaw University.Business Editors & Technology Writers SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 6, 2000 Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (Nasdaq:CRAY) today announced an order for a 32-processor Cray SV1(TM) supercomputer system from Warsaw University's Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modeling (ICM ICM Intercom ICM Integrated Crop Management ICM International Congress of Mathematicians ICM Information Classification and Management ICM Intelligent Contact Management (Cisco) ICM International Creative Management ), Warsaw, Poland. The order includes options for upgrades to future Cray Inc. technologies. Financial terms were not disclosed. The Cray SV1 system, to be installed this year in the ICM facility, will be used to enhance national weather forecasts for Poland and to support leading-edge research in the mathematical, natural and computational sciences. "ICM is a former finalist for the prestigious Computerworld-Smithsonian Award, honoring the world's greatest achievements in science. We are proud to be associated with this world-class operational and research facility," said Barry Utting, managing director for Cray Europe. The Cray SV1 supercomputer was one of the Cray systems named "Best Supercomputers" for 2000 by the readership of Scientific Computing & Instrumentation magazine. Co-winner of the award was the Cray T3E The Cray T3E was Cray Research's second-generation massively parallel supercomputer architecture, launched in 1995. Like the previous Cray T3D It was a fully distributed memory machine using a 3D torus topology interconnection network. product. More than 100 Cray SV1 systems have been installed since general availability began in August 1999. Half of that volume has come from outside of the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . 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 $2 billion installed base of approximately 600 computers worldwide, major manufacturing and service capabilities and extensive global customer relationships. Cray believes its Multithreaded multithreaded - multithreading Architecture and Cray T3E(TM) and Cray SV(TM) product lines together represent the future of supercomputing. Go to www.cray.com for more information on the company. Cray is a registered trademark, and Cray T3E, Cray SV1, Cray MTA (1) (Message Transfer Agent or Mail Transfer Agent) The store and forward part of a messaging system. See messaging system. (2) See M Technology Association. 1. (messaging) MTA - Message Transfer Agent. and Cray SV2 are trademarks, of Cray Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. 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 "Risk Factors" in Cray Inc.'s most recent SEC Form 10-Q Form 10-Q See 10-Q. . |
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