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CRAY ANNOUNCES CONTRACT FROM APPLIED TECHNICAL SYSTEMS

Cray Inc. announced that it has signed a 12-month professional services contract, valued at approximately $1 million, with Applied Technical Systems, Inc. (ATS).

The new contract continues work on which Cray and ATS have collaborated for two years under a prior contract. The goal of the collaboration is to link ATS' NdCore application, powered by ATS's patented data correlation technology the Contiguous Connection Model (CCM), to supercomputer power. The contract calls for Cray to contribute a Cray professional services team comprised of computer scientists and applications experts to work on the project for a year, and contains provisions for follow-on work.

"Our work with Cray will take advantage of their expertise in supercomputing architectures to produce a version of our automated correlation application, NdCore, that will run on supercomputing platforms. This effort will expand the analytical capabilities of agencies of the U.S. Department of Defense to process much higher volumes of information from a variety of disparate sources," said ATS CEO and President Brian Welter. "Currently we are limited to information sets ranging from local to regional in size. This work will enable national and global information sets to be analyzed. We are excited to continue to work with Cray to extend this application to supercomputer platforms," said Welter.

"Cray is the global leader in advancing supercomputing architecture and applications," said 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."

Added Kevin Stelljes, Cray's ATS program manager: "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."

About Applied Technical Systems, Inc.

ATS is a software company located in Silverdale, Washington. ATS specializes in creating automated correlation, information management, and knowledge discovery systems based on its patented technology, the Contiguous Connection Model.

About Cray Inc.

Cray's mission is to be the premier provider of high performance computing for its customers' most challenging scientific and engineering problems. Go to http://www.cray.com for more information about the company.