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SEATTLE, WA -- Supercomputer provider Cray Inc. (Nasdaq:CRAY) today announced it has received an order for Cray SV1ex(TM) supercomputer system upgrades and related services from Future Research Corporation (FRC). Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The subcontract with FRC calls for a 64-processor Cray SV1ex supercomputer upgrade to be complete in the third quarter of 2001 at the Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVOCEANO) in Stennis Space Center, Miss. NAVOCEANO currently operates one of the largest SV1-4 clusters in the world. The NAVOCEANO Major Shared Resource Center (MSRC) is a premiere provider of high performance computing (HPC) services and support to the United States Department of Defense (DoD) High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP), supporting over 5,000 scientists and engineers engaged in DoD research and development (R&D) activities. NAVOCEANO also uses the Cray(R) system extensively to support operational Navy HPC needs to increase the safety and effectiveness of U.S. Navy operations worldwide. This operational Navy support includes acquisition and analysis of global ocean and littoral data to provide specialized, operationally significant products and services for defense, civilian, national and international customers. "The CRAY SV1 cluster at NAVOCEANO supports critical DoD R&D work across multiple services and agencies, including several projects which have been given very high priority by the DoD HPC Modernization Program," said Steve Adamec, director of the NAVOCEANO MSRC. "We're very pleased to bring a substantial increase in performance and functionality of this unique HPC capability to our operational and R&D user communities." "We're thrilled to continue our long-standing relationship with NAVOCEANO by providing yet another system that cost-effectively supports their workloads," said Cray Inc. Chairman and CEO Jim Rottsolk. "Cray is committed to addressing customers' individual computing challenges with innovative architectures at attractive price/performance levels." This Cray SV1ex order upgrades NAVOCEANO's Cray SV1-4 cluster. The order also includes an upgrade for enhanced memory, effectively doubling the system's sustainable memory bandwidth. NAVOCEANO also operates one of the largest Cray T3E(TM) supercomputers in the world, with 1,024 processors and over 400 gigabytes of main memory. For more information visit www.cray.com