CORRECTING and REPLACING -- Cray Inc.
November 14 2016 - 12:15PM
In a release issued earlier today under the headline "Cray
XC40 “Theta” Supercomputer Accepted and in Production at Argonne
National Laboratory" by Cray Inc. (Nasdaq:CRAY), please note that
the headline included the phrase "and in Production". The system
has been accepted but is not yet in production. The corrected
release follows:
At the 2016 Supercomputing Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah,
global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (Nasdaq:CRAY) today announced
it has achieved acceptance for “Theta,” the Cray® XC40™
supercomputer, as well as a Cray Sonexion® 3000 storage system,
located at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF), a U.S.
Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility at Argonne
National Laboratory. The Theta system marks Cray and Intel’s first
acceptance for a large-scale supercomputer featuring the latest
generation of Intel® Xeon Phi™ processors formerly code named
“Knights Landing.”
Theta has a peak performance of more than eight petaflops, and
is currently running a broad range of scientific applications
through the ALCF’s Theta Early Science Program. The Cray XC40
system was delivered to Argonne National Laboratory through a
partnership with Intel as part of the DOE’s initiative to build
state-of-the art supercomputers through the Collaboration of Oak
Ridge, Argonne, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories
(CORAL) program.
“The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility is committed to
providing advanced supercomputing resources, like the Theta system,
that help our researchers solve some of the world’s largest and
most complex problems,” said Rick Stevens, Associate Laboratory
Director for Argonne National Laboratory. “We are pleased that
Theta is now accelerating our scientific research.”
Cray, in partnership with Intel, will also deliver a flagship
system called “Aurora” as part of the CORAL program. Aurora will be
based on the next-generation Cray supercomputer code named
“Shasta,” the successor to the current, industry-leading Cray XC™
line of supercomputers. Aurora is expected to have a peak
performance of 180 petaflops and is scheduled for delivery in
2018.
“The acceptance of Theta is a significant milestone for Cray and
Intel as we continue to work towards the installation and
acceptance of several Cray supercomputers with the new Intel Xeon
Phi processors,” said Peter Ungaro, president and CEO of Cray. “Our
collaboration with Intel and Argonne is focused on producing
powerful supercomputers for the DOE user community. The Theta
system is exciting step forward in our partnership, and one that I
know many other supercomputer centers around the world are watching
as they evaluate this new processor technology for their next
mission-critical system.”
Cray is a leader in deploying supercomputers with the Intel Xeon
Phi processors, and several top supercomputing centers have signed
large contracts for Cray XC™ supercomputers with Intel’s new
processor. These systems include the “Cori” system at the U.S.
Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Energy Research Scientific
Computing Center (NERSC); the “Trinity” system at the National
Nuclear Security Administration; and the Cray XC40 supercomputer at
the Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies at Kyoto
University in Kyoto, Japan.
“The Theta supercomputer at Argonne is an important step in the
CORAL project and a milestone on the path towards the Aurora
system,” said Dr. Rajeeb Hazra, Vice President of the Data Center
group and General Manager of the Enterprise and Government group at
Intel. “The combination of Intel’s leading technology, latest Intel
Xeon Phi processor technology, codenamed Knights Landing, Intel
Scalable System Framework, and Cray’s system capabilities is
helping to drive scientific discoveries and engineering
breakthroughs.”
For more information on the Cray XC supercomputers and Cray
Sonexion storage systems, please visit the Cray website at
www.cray.com.
About Cray Inc.Global supercomputing leader
Cray Inc. (Nasdaq:CRAY) provides innovative systems and solutions
enabling scientists and engineers in industry, academia and
government to meet existing and future simulation and analytics
challenges. Leveraging more than 40 years of experience in
developing and servicing the world’s most advanced supercomputers,
Cray offers a comprehensive portfolio of supercomputers and big
data storage and analytics solutions delivering unrivaled
performance, efficiency and scalability. Cray’s Adaptive
Supercomputing vision is focused on delivering innovative
next-generation products that integrate diverse processing
technologies into a unified architecture, allowing customers to
meet the market’s continued demand for realized performance. Go to
www.cray.com for more information.
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contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section
21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Section 27A of the
Securities Act of 1933, including, but not limited to, statements
related to Cray's ability to deliver the systems required by the
CORAL program when required and that meet the CORAL program's needs
and the planned availability, performance and features of the Cray
Shasta system. These statements involve current expectations,
forecasts of future events and other statements that are not
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to, the risk that orders for Cray Shasta-based systems through the
CORAL program are smaller than expected or not placed at all, the
risk that the systems required by the CORAL program are not
delivered in a timely fashion or do not perform as expected, the
risk that Cray is not able to successfully complete its planned
product development efforts or to ship Shasta systems within
the planned timeframe or at all, the risk that the Shasta
system will not have the features, performance or components
currently planned, the risk that processors and interconnect
technology planned for the Cray Shasta system are not
available when expected or with the performance expected and such
other risks as identified in the Company’s quarterly report on Form
10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2016, and from time to
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