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Cray Inc. today announced that the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) has awarded the company a five-year Federal Supply Service (FSS) contract. The contract, which went into effect on December 13, 2004, makes Cray a trusted GSA vendor and adds Cray supercomputer products, maintenance and training to the FSS schedule. Products initially listed include the Cray XD1, Cray XT3, Cray X1 and Cray X1E systems. "This has been put together in response to our customers' requests to provide a contract vehicle to make it easier for federal agencies to buy from Cray," said Peter Ungaro, Cray senior vice president of sales, marketing and service. According to the FSS website (_www.fss.gsa.gov_ (http://www.fss.gsa.gov/) ), "GSA's Federal Supply Service manages the largest, most diverse and innovative federal marketplace in the world, bringing hundreds of thousands of federal customers together with more than 9,000 contractors." Together, the Cray XT3 massively parallel supercomputer, the Cray XD1 entry and midrange product, and the Cray X1 and Cray X1E high-end vector systems constitute the world's most comprehensive and capable lineup of high performance computing (HPC) products.