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SEATTLE, WA -- Global supercomputer provider Cray Inc. (Nasdaq NM: CRAY) today announced it has received an order for a Cray T3E(tm) supercomputer system upgrade to be placed at the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) in Vicksburg, Miss. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The subcontract with Computer Sciences Corporation (NYSE: CSC), ERDC's Major Shared Resource Center (MSRC) integration contractor, calls for a Cray T3E system upgrade to be completed in the third quarter of 2001. The upgrade will increase the Cray T3E configuration from 512 to 768 application processors. The ERDC MSRC is a premier provider of high performance computing (HPC) services and support to the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP), supporting more than 5,000 scientists and engineers engaged in DoD research and development activities. The center operates high-performance systems from multiple vendors to address DoD user requirements. With this upgrade, the center's Cray T3E system remains the center's premier highly scalable resource for problems demanding extremely high performance. The Cray T3E system is widely recognized as the most technically successful highly scalable computer and set the world record for sustained performance on a full 64-bit application. "We have upgraded our T3E several times over the past five years. The system continues to be the chosen resource in the center to reliably address very large problems. For example, 10 percent of the T3E jobs use 65 percent of all CPU cycles consumed. We are very pleased about offering this increased capability to the DoD community," said Bradley Comes, director of the ERDC Major Shared Resource Center. "We're delighted to continue our long-standing relationship with ERDC. ERDC's decision to upgrade its Cray T3E system attests to the unique capabilities of the system in environments demanding extremely high performance and industry-leading scalability," said Cray Inc. Chairman and CEO Jim Rottsolk. Visit www.cray.com for more information.