SEATTLE, WA -- Supercomputer provider Cray Inc. (Nasdaq NM: CRAY) and Dell today announced a definitive agreement for Cray to market high-performance cluster solutions and services worldwide using Dell PowerEdge servers. The three-year, automatically renewable agreement, effective immediately, calls for Cray to sell and provide direct customer support for high-performance computing (HPC) solutions that combine scalable, cost-effective Dell PowerEdge servers and storage with value-added HPC technologies and services from Cray. In addition to installation, maintenance and support, Cray will offer services ranging from site planning, system integration and training, to hardware and software customization. Cray will market the Dell, Linux-based solutions alongside Cray's existing HPC products and solutions. Through its High-Performance Computing Clusters (HPCC) program also announced today, Dell will continue to offer supercomputing capabilities through bundled cluster configurations to help customers solve their computing challenges quickly and easily. Under the terms of the agreement, Dell will provide Cray with current and future Dell products, including a broad range of networking and storage options; training; and support for Cray's engineering and service organizations. Cray and Dell will meet as needed to discuss requirements for specific sales opportunities, and on a quarterly basis regarding potential enhancements to Dell's cluster product roadmap. "Our relationship with Dell fulfills the strategy we announced in December 2001 to deliver cluster solutions through Cray's new Professional Services organization," said Michael P. Haydock, president and CEO of Cray. "Separately, Cray and Dell discovered an important unmet need for high-quality, cost-effective cluster solutions surrounded by deep HPC expertise. Through our Cray T3E(tm) history, Cray has become one of the world's leading experts at working with customers to make scalable, microprocessor-based solutions successful," he added. "Cray's selection of Dell PowerEdge servers is another example of how industry-standard technology is pushing further into the enterprise, and now handling a growing range of supercomputing tasks," said Randy Groves, vice president of Dell's Enterprise Systems Group. "This relationship promises to expand Dell's market opportunity in high-performance computing by leveraging Cray's unrivaled understanding of HPC markets, customers, applications and technologies." "This relationship will clearly delight enterprises seeking production quality high-performance supercomputing at attractive pricing," said Richard Partridge, vice president of Enterprise Servers at D.H. Brown Associates. "Cray's HPC cluster solutions will leverage the scalability expertise honed on its well-regarded Cray T3E parallel systems. Using Dell's highly successful industry-standard platforms, these high-performance clusters will offer customers exciting new levels of cost-effective HPC computing." For more information visit www.cray.com