Cray Announces Multiple Contracts for New Supercomputing Solutions Spanning Its Product Portfolio

SEATTLE, WA and FRANKFURT, GERMANY--(Marketwired - Jun 21, 2016) - At the 2016 International Supercomputing Conference in Frankfurt, Germany, global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (NASDAQ: CRAY) showcased continued momentum for its supercomputing, analytics, and storage solutions. The Company announced today it has been awarded new contracts for its Cray® XC40™ supercomputer, two Cray® CS400™ cluster supercomputers, a Cray® Urika®-GX agile analytics platform, and its DataWarp™ applications I/O accelerator to customers in Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

The Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies (ACCMS) at Kyoto University in Kyoto, Japan awarded Cray a contract for a Cray XC40 supercomputer, featuring the Cray DataWarp applications I/O accelerator, and a Cray CS400 cluster supercomputer. The 5.4 petaflop Cray XC40 system at Kyoto University will also include the new Intel® Xeon Phi™ processors, formerly codenamed "Knights Landing".

The Centre for Modelling & Simulation (CFMS) in Bristol, United Kingdom -- home of Cray's Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) headquarters -- recently purchased a Cray CS400 cluster supercomputer, and the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne Leadership Computing Facility at Argonne National Laboratory awarded Cray a contract for the recently launched Cray Urika-GX system.

"The demand for Cray's portfolio of supercomputing solutions is strong," said Fred Kohout, senior vice president and chief marketing officer at Cray. "As customers continue to look for capabilities and solutions to successfully leverage the rise of data-intensive computing, we are seeing increased traction for Cray's supercomputing, storage, and analytics solutions. Particularly, the interest generated from the recent launch of our Cray Urika-GX system is significant, and we are pleased the agile analytics system will play a key role in Argonne's data science program."

The researchers and scientists at Kyoto University's highly regarded ACCMS will use its new Cray systems to conduct research and development related to the advanced use of information technology infrastructure and information media. ACCMS has four research departments for networking, multimedia oriented educational computer systems, academic digital contents, and supercomputing. ACCMS will use its Cray XC40 supercomputer and Cray CS400 cluster supercomputer for applications that require scalability and high sustained performance, as well as applications that require large capacity for multiple jobs.