Cray Awarded $174 Million Supercomputer Contract From the National Nuclear Security Administration

SEATTLE, WA--(Marketwired - Jul 10, 2014) - Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (NASDAQ: CRAY) today announced the Company has been awarded one of the largest contracts in Cray's history -- a $174 million deal to provide the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) with a next generation Cray® XC™ supercomputer and a Cray Sonexion® storage system.

The next-generation Cray XC supercomputer will provide the NNSA with a world-class supercomputing system to advance the mission for the agency's stockpile stewardship program. The system, named "Trinity" by the NNSA, is a joint effort between the New Mexico Alliance for Computing at Extreme Scale (ACES) at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories as part of the NNSA Advanced Simulation and Computing Program (ASC). The new Cray supercomputer will be used to ensure the safety, security and effectiveness of the United States' nuclear stockpile.

"Both Los Alamos and Sandia have a long history with Cray, going back to the beginning of the supercomputing era and most recently with the Cielo platform," said Gary Grider, High Performance Computing Division Leader at Los Alamos. "That history continues with the Trinity platform that will provide next generation supercomputing in support of the U. S. nuclear security enterprise."

"We look forward to working with Cray to create a significant increase in supercomputing capability for key NNSA national security applications," said Bruce Hendrickson, Sr. Manager of the Extreme-scale Computing group at Sandia National Laboratories. "Trinity will target the largest and most demanding simulations for NNSA."

The Trinity system will support all three of the NNSA national laboratories, which include Los Alamos National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The NNSA's current supercomputer sited at Los Alamos is a Cray XE6™ system named "Cielo." The new Trinity system is expected to deliver more than eight times greater applications performance than the Cielo system.

"It is a real honor that one of the largest contracts in our Company's history has come from one of our most important customers," said Peter Ungaro, president and CEO of Cray. "Our partnership and collaboration with the NNSA has led to the development of groundbreaking supercomputing systems, including the Cray XT3 system that resulted from the Red Storm project. The NNSA has consistently deployed the world's most advanced supercomputing systems to support their critical mission of ensuring the health of our nation's nuclear stockpile. We couldn't be more proud that, once again, the NNSA has placed its trust in Cray to provide them with the computational tools needed to support their important mission."