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Home : November 14 2011 Computer News : Cray Inc. Lands $188 Million Contract and Releases 2012 Outlook

Cray Inc. Lands $188 Million Contract and Releases 2012 Outlook

November 14, 2011

SEATTLE, WA--(Marketwire - Nov 14, 2011) - Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (NASDAQ: CRAY) today announced it has finalized a contract with the University of Illinois' National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) to provide the supercomputer for the National Science Foundation's Blue Waters project. The supercomputer will be comprised of a Cray XE6 system and a future upgrade of the recently-announced Cray XK6 supercomputer with GPU computing capability incorporated into a single, powerful hybrid supercomputer. Once fully deployed, the Blue Waters system is expected to have a sustained performance of more than one petaflops on demanding scientific applications.

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