SEATTLE, WA — (Marketwired) — 11/12/15 — Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (NASDAQ: CRAY) today announced the Company plans to join the OpenHPC Project led by The Linux Foundation. Cray–s participation in OpenHPC will focus on making technology contributions that will help to standardize software stack components, leverage open-source technologies, and simplify the maintenance and operation of the software stack for end-users.

The OpenHPC Project is designed to create a unified community of key stakeholders across the HPC industry focused on developing a new open-source framework for high performance computing (HPC) environments. The group–s goal is to create a stable environment for testing and validation, as well as provide a robust and diverse open-source software stack that minimizes user overhead and associated costs.

“Cray is committed to providing our customers with the highest performing supercomputing systems, while simultaneously embracing the collaborative creation of industry standards that streamline our customers– workflow,” said Steve Scott, Cray–s senior vice president and chief technology officer. “We believe OpenHPC will deliver efficiency benefits to supercomputing center administrators and programmers, as well as the researchers and scientists that use our systems every day. The open-source community continues to play an important role for Cray, and as part of this effort we plan to open-source components of our industry-leading software environment to OpenHPC.”

Cray has a long history of open-source community co-founding, contribution, and collaboration. The Company actively participates with several open-source organizations including Chapel, OpenSFS, OpenMP, OpenACC, OpenStack, and others. By leveraging open community standardization, Cray can minimize vendor duplication of efforts, and focus the majority of the Company–s R&D investments on the development of innovative product technologies.

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Global supercomputing leader Cray Inc. (NASDAQ: CRAY) provides innovative systems and solutions enabling scientists and engineers in industry, academia and government to meet existing and future simulation and analytics challenges. Leveraging more than 40 years of experience in developing and servicing the world–s most advanced supercomputers, Cray offers a comprehensive portfolio of supercomputers and big data storage and analytics solutions delivering unrivaled performance, efficiency and scalability. Cray–s Adaptive Supercomputing vision is focused on delivering innovative next-generation products that integrate diverse processing technologies into a unified architecture, allowing customers to meet the market–s continued demand for realized performance. Go to for more information.

This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, including, but not limited to, statements related to Cray–s plans to join the OpenHPC Project and the potential benefits of the OpenHPC Project to Cray and the HPC community. These statements involve current expectations, forecasts of future events and other statements that are not historical facts. Inaccurate assumptions and known and unknown risks and uncertainties can affect the accuracy of forward-looking statements and cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated by these forward-looking statements. Factors that could affect actual future events or results include, but are not limited to, the risk that Cray does not join the OpenHPC Project because Cray does not agree to the terms Cray is required to enter into to participate in the project or for other reasons, the risk that Cray and the HPC community do not realize the benefits of the OpenHPC Project as expected and such other risks as identified in the Company–s quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2015, and from time to time in other reports filed by Cray with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. You should not rely unduly on these forward-looking statements, which apply only as of the date of this release. Cray undertakes no duty to publicly announce or report revisions to these statements as new information becomes available that may change the Company–s expectations.

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