SEATTLE, WA -- Supercomputer provider Cray Inc. (Nasdaq:CRAY) today announced that it has entered into a professional services contract with Applied Technical Systems, Inc. (ATS) headquartered in Silverdale, Washington. The contract's goal is to link ATS' patented data mining system, the Contiguous Connection Model, to supercomputer power. The contract, estimated to be worth more than $800,000, calls for a full-time Cray professional services team comprised of computer scientists and applications experts to work on this project for a year, and contains provisions for follow-on work. "Our patented Contiguous Connection Model (CCM) is an advanced correlation engine which automatically extracts hidden and obscure relationships from any source of free text, such as the Internet, corporate document stores and existing databases," said ATS president Brian Welter. "CCM automatically discovers and stores the inherent relationships hidden in the information being analyzed. The result is a relevancy maximized information set that can be easily browsed or searched. Additionally, the persistently stored relationships result in virtually instantaneous information retrieval. For example, we developed a product for law enforcement agencies that enables investigators to gather information from multiple disparate sources, such as credit reports, NCIC reports and telephone records, into a single searchable information store which automatically reveals important unexpected relationships." "Our work with Cray involves developing an application for agencies of the U.S. Department of Defense based on our technology that will enable them to correlate and analyze information from a variety of sources," added Welter. "Currently we are limited to single-processor systems and relatively low volumes of data. We are excited to work with Cray to extend this application to supercomputer platforms, and are particularly interested in the large shared memory and high bandwidth attributes of the Cray MTA-2 system," said Welter. Added Kevin Rogers, Cray's professional services practice leader: "This is an excellent example of how Cray's expertise in the design and development of supercomputer applications, as well as hardware, can assist other companies in developing true HPC solutions. With ATS, we will help redesign and implement the CCM system to be more modular, scalable, portable and extensible. While our work will be platform independent, we will look closely at the attributes of the MTA-2 system as well as other viable platforms for future development," added Rogers. "Cray is dedicated to advancing supercomputing architecture and applications," added Cray president Jim Rottsolk. "The collaboration with ATS demonstrates how we can combine two high performance technologies and produce powerful results that benefit both companies." For more information visit www.cray.com