Cray Inc. today reported that it has won new advance orders with an aggregate value of approximately $9 million from unnamed European and Asia-Pacific customers for Cray X1E supercomputer systems. The two systems are scheduled to be installed in the first half of 2005. "We are very excited to have a number of advance orders from key international customers for the powerful Cray X1E vector supercomputer, the fully compatible successor to the current Cray X1 system," said Peter Ungaro, Cray senior vice president of sales, marketing and service. "The Cray X1 system is used by leading researchers and developers today for workloads demanding extreme, scalable performance and has demonstrated unrivaled results on standard benchmarks and real-world customer applications. The Cray X1E system will extend this performance leadership and it is an important step for Cray to deliver this capability to new customers around the world." Together with the recently announced Cray XT3 massively parallel supercomputer and the Cray XD1 entry and midrange product, Cray X1 and Cray X1E systems constitute the world's most comprehensive and capable lineup of high performance computing (HPC) products.