CRAY AWARDED CONTRACTS WITH THE U.S. ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY AND THE ARMY ENGINEERING AND RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT CENTER

Depart­ment of Defen­se Sel­ects Cray CS500 Sys­tems For New High-Per­for­mance Com­pu­ting Capa­bi­li­ties At Army Rese­arch Cen­ters
SEATTLE, Aug. 07, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Glo­bal super­com­pu­ter lea­der Cray Inc.(Nasdaq:CRAY) today announ­ced that the U.S. Depart­ment of Defen­se (DOD) has sel­ec­ted two Cray CS500™  sys­tems for its High Per­for­mance Com­pu­ting Moder­niza­ti­on Pro­gram (HPCMP) annu­al tech­no­lo­gy pro­cu­re­ment known as TI-18. The Army Rese­arch Lab (ARL) and the U.S. Army Engi­nee­ring and Rese­arch Deve­lo­p­ment Cen­ter (ERDC) will each deploy a Cray CS500 to help ser­ve the U.S. through acce­le­ra­ted rese­arch in sci­ence and tech­no­lo­gy. The two con­tracts are valued at more than $46M and the CS500 sys­tems are expec­ted to be deli­ver­ed to ARL and ERDC in the fourth quar­ter of 2019.

We’re proud to con­ti­nue to sup­port the DOD and its advan­ced use of high-per­for­mance com­pu­ting in pro­vi­ding ARL and ERDC new sys­tems for their rese­arch pro­grams,” said Peter Unga­ro, CEO at Cray. “We’re loo­king for­ward to con­tin­ued col­la­bo­ra­ti­on with the DOD in lever­aging the capa­bi­li­ties of the­se new sys­tems to achie­ve their important mis­si­on objectives.”

Cray has a long histo­ry of deli­ve­ring high-per­for­mance com­pu­ting tech­no­lo­gies to ARL and ERDC and con­ti­nues to play a vital role in hel­ping the orga­niza­ti­ons deli­ver on their mis­si­ons to ensu­re the U.S. remains a lea­der in sci­ence. Both orga­niza­ti­ons’ CS500 sys­tems will be equip­ped with 2nd Gen AMD EPYC™ pro­ces­sors and NVIDIA Ten­sor Core GPUs, and will pro­vi­de access to high-per­for­mance capa­bi­li­ties and resour­ces that make it pos­si­ble for rese­ar­chers, sci­en­tists and engi­neers across the Depart­ment of Defen­se to bet­ter under­stand insights and enable new dis­co­veries across diver­se rese­arch disci­pli­nes to address the Department’s most chal­len­ging problems.

We are tru­ly proud to part­ner with Cray to crea­te the world’s most powerful super­com­pu­ting plat­forms. To be sel­ec­ted to help acce­le­ra­te sci­en­ti­fic rese­arch and dis­co­very is a tes­ta­ment to our com­mit­ment to dat­a­cen­ter inno­va­ti­on,” said For­rest Nor­rod, seni­or vice pre­si­dent and gene­ral mana­ger, Dat­a­cen­ter and Embedded Solu­ti­ons Busi­ness Group, AMD. “By lever­aging breakth­rough CPU per­for­mance and robust fea­ture set of the 2nd Gen AMD EPYC pro­ces­sors with Cray CS500 super­com­pu­ters, the DOD has a tre­men­dous oppor­tu­ni­ty to grow its com­pu­ting capa­bi­li­ties and deli­ver on its missions.”

About Cray Inc.
Cray Inc. (Nasdaq:CRAY) com­bi­nes com­pu­ta­ti­on and crea­ti­vi­ty so visio­na­ries can keep asking ques­ti­ons that chall­enge the limits of pos­si­bi­li­ty. Dra­wing on more than 45 years of expe­ri­ence, Cray deve­lo­ps the world’s most advan­ced super­com­pu­ters, pushing the boun­da­ries of per­for­mance, effi­ci­en­cy and sca­la­bi­li­ty. Cray con­ti­nues to inno­va­te today at the con­ver­gence of data and dis­co­very, offe­ring a com­pre­hen­si­ve port­fo­lio of super­com­pu­ters, high-per­for­mance sto­rage, data ana­ly­tics and arti­fi­ci­al intel­li­gence solu­ti­ons.  Go to www.cray.com for more information.

Safe Har­bor Statement
This press release con­ta­ins for­ward-loo­king state­ments within the mea­ning of Sec­tion 21E of the Secu­ri­ties Exch­an­ge Act of 1934 and Sec­tion 27A of the Secu­ri­ties Act of 1933, inclu­ding, but not limi­t­ed to, state­ments rela­ted to Cray’s abili­ty to deli­ver sys­tems that meets ARL’s and ERDC’s requi­re­ments. The­se state­ments invol­ve cur­rent expec­ta­ti­ons, fore­casts of future events and other state­ments that are not his­to­ri­cal facts. Inac­cu­ra­te assump­ti­ons and known and unknown risks and uncer­tain­ties can affect the accu­ra­cy of for­ward-loo­king state­ments and cau­se actu­al results to dif­fer mate­ri­al­ly from tho­se anti­ci­pa­ted by the­se for­ward-loo­king state­ments. Fac­tors that could affect actu­al future events or results include, but are not limi­t­ed to, the risk that the sys­tems requi­red by ARL and ERDC are not deli­ver­ed in a time­ly fashion or do not per­form as expec­ted and such other risks as iden­ti­fied in the Company’s quar­ter­ly report on Form 10‑Q for the quar­ter ended June 30, 2019, and from time to time in other reports filed by Cray with the U.S. Secu­ri­ties and Exch­an­ge Com­mis­si­on. You should not rely undu­ly on the­se for­ward-loo­king state­ments, which app­ly only as of the date of this release. Cray under­ta­kes no duty to publicly announ­ce or report revi­si­ons to the­se state­ments as new infor­ma­ti­on beco­mes available that may chan­ge the Company’s expectations.

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