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Cray Awarded $30 Million Contract to Expand the Cray XC30 Supercomputer at the High Performance Computing Center of University of Stuttgart

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SEATTLE, WA and HEIDELBERG, GERMANY — (Mar­ket­wired) — 11/19/13 – Glo­bal super­com­pu­ter lea­der Cray Inc. (NASDAQ: CRAY) today announ­ced the Com­pa­ny has signed a con­tract with the Uni­ver­si­ty of Stutt­gart to expand the Cray® XC30™ super­com­pu­ter, nick­na­med “Hor­net” at the University’s High Per­for­mance Com­pu­ting Cen­ter Stutt­gart (HLRS). When the expan­si­on is com­ple­te, Hor­net will have a peak per­for­mance of more than seven peta­flops (qua­dril­li­on mathe­ma­ti­cal cal­cu­la­ti­ons per second) of high per­for­mance com­pu­ting (HPC) power and 2.3 peta­bytes of addi­tio­nal Cray file sys­tem sto­rage for Lust­re (CLFS).

The Cray XC30 super­com­pu­ter at HLRS will ser­ve as a super­com­pu­ting resour­ce for rese­ar­chers, sci­en­tists and engi­neers throug­hout Euro­pe. HLRS is a mem­ber of the Gauss Cent­re for Super­com­pu­ting (GCS), which is an alli­ance of the three major super­com­pu­ting cen­ters in Ger­ma­ny that coll­ec­tively pro­vi­de one of the lar­gest and most powerful super­com­pu­ter infra­struc­tures in the world. HLRS is also one of the lea­ding cen­ters in the Part­ner­ship for Advan­ced Com­pu­ting in Euro­pe (PRACE) initiative.

“For a num­ber of years now, we have work­ed in clo­se col­la­bo­ra­ti­on with Cray to pro­vi­de our rese­ar­chers and sci­en­tists, as well as our indus­tri­al part­ners in the auto­mo­ti­ve and aero­space indus­tries, with the com­pu­ta­tio­nal resour­ces of high­ly advan­ced super­com­pu­ting sys­tems,” said Prof. Dr. Micha­el M. Resch, direc­tor of HLRS. “Relia­bi­li­ty, per­for­mance, sup­port and cus­to­mer ser­vice are vital­ly important to us, and Cray and its super­com­pu­ters con­ti­nue to meet the requi­re­ments of our orga­niza­ti­on and our vast user com­mu­ni­ty. We are exci­ted that the Cray XC30 super­com­pu­ter will power our rese­arch for the next seve­ral years.”

HLRS was the first cus­to­mer world-wide to sign a con­tract for a Cray XC30 super­com­pu­ter back in 2010, and is also the home of a Cray® XE6™ super­com­pu­ter nick­na­med “Her­mit”.

“Over many years, HLRS and Cray have enjoy­ed a clo­se coope­ra­ti­on, and we are hono­red that one of the world’s pre­mier super­com­pu­ting cen­ters has once again sel­ec­ted a Cray super­com­pu­ter to run their ope­ra­ti­ons,” said Dr. Ulla Thiel, Cray vice pre­si­dent, Euro­pe. “When the expan­si­on to the HLRS sys­tem is com­ple­te, this Cray XC30 sys­tem will be one of the most powerful super­com­pu­ters in Euro­pe. We are proud that HLRS again cho­se Cray, and we are very exci­ted the sys­tem will be a valuable and high­ly uti­li­zed resour­ce for the sci­en­ti­fic com­mu­ni­ty, as well as a lar­ge num­ber of com­mer­cial com­pa­nies across Europe.”

Con­sis­ting of pro­ducts and ser­vices, the mul­ti-year con­tract is valued at more than $30 mil­li­on, and the sys­tem is expec­ted to go into pro­duc­tion in 2015.

Pre­vious­ly code-named “Cas­ca­de,” the Cray XC30 super­com­pu­ters are Cray’s most advan­ced HPC sys­tems and are engi­nee­red to meet the per­for­mance chal­lenges of today’s HPC users. The Cray XC30 and Cray® XC30-AC™ super­com­pu­ters fea­ture the uni­que Aries sys­tem inter­con­nect; a Dra­gon­fly net­work topo­lo­gy that frees appli­ca­ti­ons from loca­li­ty cons­traints; inno­va­ti­ve coo­ling sys­tems to lower cus­to­mers’ total cost of owner­ship; the next-gene­ra­ti­on of the sca­lable, high per­for­mance Cray Linux Envi­ron­ment sup­port­ing a wide ran­ge of appli­ca­ti­ons; Cray’s HPC opti­mi­zed pro­gramming envi­ron­ment; and the abili­ty to hand­le a wide varie­ty of pro­ces­sor types.

The Cray Lust­re file sys­tem is a ful­ly inte­gra­ted solu­ti­on from Cray that pro­vi­des DDN block sto­rage, Cray inte­gra­ted ser­vers and swit­ches, and Cray sup­port­ed Lust­re distributions.

Addi­tio­nal infor­ma­ti­on on the Cray XC30 super­com­pu­ters can be found on the Cray web­site at www.cray.com.

About HLRS
The High Per­for­mance Com­pu­ting Cen­ter Stutt­gart (HLRS) of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Stutt­gart is one of the three Ger­man super­com­pu­ter insti­tu­ti­ons forming the natio­nal Gauss Cent­re for Super­com­pu­ting. HLRS sup­ports Ger­man and pan-Euro­pean rese­ar­chers as well as indus­tri­al users with lea­ding edge super­com­pu­ting tech­no­lo­gy. Com­pu­te Ser­vices are sup­pli­ed to indus­tri­al part­ners like Por­sche and Daim­ler through the public-pri­va­te part­ner­ship of hww GmbH. Col­la­bo­ra­ti­ve rese­arch with the auto­mo­ti­ve indus­try goes through the Auto­mo­ti­ve Simu­la­ti­on Cen­ter Stutt­gart (ASCS). In Euro­pean, natio­nal, and indus­tri­al pro­jects HLRS con­ducts basic and appli­ed rese­arch in HPC focu­sing on pro­gramming methods and applications.

About Cray Inc.
Glo­bal super­com­pu­ting lea­der Cray Inc. (NASDAQ: CRAY) pro­vi­des inno­va­ti­ve sys­tems and solu­ti­ons enab­ling sci­en­tists and engi­neers in indus­try, aca­de­mia and govern­ment to meet exis­ting and future simu­la­ti­on and ana­ly­tics chal­lenges. Lever­aging 40 years of expe­ri­ence in deve­lo­ping and ser­vicing the world’s most advan­ced super­com­pu­ters, Cray offers a com­pre­hen­si­ve port­fo­lio of super­com­pu­ters and Big Data sto­rage and ana­ly­tics solu­ti­ons deli­ve­ring unri­va­led per­for­mance, effi­ci­en­cy and sca­la­bi­li­ty. Cray’s Adap­ti­ve Super­com­pu­ting visi­on is focu­sed on deli­ve­ring inno­va­ti­ve next-gene­ra­ti­on pro­ducts that inte­gra­te diver­se pro­ces­sing tech­no­lo­gies into a uni­fied archi­tec­tu­re, allo­wing cus­to­mers to meet the market’s con­tin­ued demand for rea­li­zed per­for­mance. 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 the sys­tem requi­red by HLRS when requi­red and that meets HLRS’ needs. 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 sys­tem requi­red by HLRS is not deli­ver­ed in a time­ly fashion or does not per­form as expec­ted, and such other risks as iden­ti­fied in the Company’s quar­ter­ly report on Form 10‑Q for the quar­ter ended Sep­tem­ber 30, 2013, 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.

Cray is a regis­tered trade­mark of Cray Inc. in the United Sta­tes and other count­ries, and XC30™, XE6™ and XC30-AC™ are trade­marks of Cray Inc. Other pro­duct and ser­vice names men­tio­ned her­ein are the trade­marks of their respec­ti­ve owners.

Cray Media:
Nick Davis
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Source: Cray Inc.