Cray Adds New Advanced Analytics Solution to Whom It May Concern

Its Big Data Product Portfolio

SEATTLE, WA and NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwired - Oct 16, 2014) - At the 2014 Strata + Hadoop World New York conference, global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (NASDAQ: CRAY) today announced the launch of the Company's new big data analytics product -- the Cray® Urika-XA™ system. Pre-integrated with the Apache™ Hadoop® and Apache Spark™ frameworks, the Cray Urika-XA system provides customers with the benefits of a turnkey analytics appliance combined with a flexible, open platform that can be modified for future analytics workloads.

Designed for customers with mission-critical analytics challenges, the Cray Urika-XA system reduces the analytics footprint and total cost of ownership with a single-platform consolidating a wide range of analytics workloads. It also provides superior performance for latency-sensitive analytics with an architecture that is optimized for compute-heavy and memory-intensive workloads, with acceleration through SSDs, parallel file systems, fast interconnects and unique software in the Cray Adaptive Runtime for Hadoop. The Cray Urika-XA also eases the system management burden with a single point of support, a standards-based software stack and compliance with enterprise standards.

"The massive explosion of data has created significant challenges for enterprise customers as they face critical decisions on how to extract value from all of that data and determine the ideal tool for the job," said Peter Ungaro, president and CEO of Cray. "The convergence of big data and high performance computing is creating a demand for an open analytics system built on a supercomputing architecture -- a solution that allows customers to realize the benefits of advanced analytics techniques, better deal with data complexities, lower TCO and realize faster time-to-value results. With a pre-tested, pre-configured analytics system free from technology lock-in, the Cray Urika-XA is the right product for a growing set of customers who have analytics needs not met by existing solutions."

The Cray Urika-XA system has been in beta testing for the past few months in both commercial and government customer environments. One of the first customers is the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Researchers and scientists at ORNL will use the system for data-analytic workloads in climate science, materials science and healthcare.