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SEATTLE, WA -- Supercomputer provider Cray Inc. (Nasdaq:CRAY) today announced it has sold a Cray SX-6 supercomputer and related services to a Canadian industrial company for approximately Canadian $2.7 million. No other details were announced. "The Cray SX-6 system has outstanding performance on key industrial codes," said James Rottsolk, Cray chairman and CEO. "We are pleased that our customer will be the first industrial company in North America to use this exciting technology in its key development area." This is the first commercial sale under the OEM agreement concluded last year between Cray and NEC. The long-term agreement gives Cray exclusive rights to distribute the rebranded NEC supercomputer line in North America, and non-exclusive distribution rights in most other areas of the world. The SX-6 system is the world's most recent high-end, high-bandwidth vector supercomputer product line designed to serve industrial, academic and government customers. The world's most powerful supercomputer system, the Earth Simulator in Japan, is based on the same fundamental technology as the SX-6 system.