Cray Doubles Size of One of World's Largest Supercomputers

Oak Ridge National Laboratory's "Jaguar" Upgraded to Over 260 Teraflops

SEATTLE, WA, May 15, 2008 -- Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. today announced that Oak Ridge National Laboratory has completed acceptance of an upgrade to its Cray XT4™ system, taking the highly scalable supercomputer from 119 teraflops (one trillion floating point operations per second) to more than 260 teraflops. Already one of the world's largest high-performance computing (HPC) systems, the supercomputer, codenamed "Jaguar," was upgraded to incorporate new Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processors, more than doubling the system's compute performance.

"Compute performance has a direct impact on our ability to tackle the greatest engineering and scientific challenges we face, resulting in the breakthroughs that change society," said Dr. Thomas Zacharia, Oak Ridge National Laboratory associate director for computing and computational sciences. "The scalability, reliability and upgradeability of the Cray XT4 has made Jaguar an increasingly powerful computing resource for our researchers and scientists. This upgrade will enable even greater achievements in today's most important areas of science."

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Cray and Intel Collaborate to Develop Future Supercomputing Technologies

SANTA CLARA, Calif. & SEATTLE -- Cray Inc. and Intel Corporation announced today they signed a multi-year agreement to advance high-performance computing (HPC) on Intel microprocessors while delivering broad new Intel and Cray technologies in future Cray server systems. The collaboration of these two industry leaders will result in HPC systems that will help solve some of the world's most complex scientific, engineering and humanitarian challenges.

"We're excited at the potential of bringing together Intel's powerful silicon expertise and Cray's industry leadership in scalable HPC systems," said Peter Ungaro, president and CEO of Cray. "We pride ourselves in offering the most innovative supercomputing systems and our customers will now enjoy greater choice in processor technologies."

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