April 6, 1972 1993 2004 –– Research, Inc. (CRI) opens in Chippewa Falls, WI 1986 – – ––Signs first medical research customer –Forms Cray Research Superservers –Acquires OctigaBay Systems Corp. – – (National Cancer Institute) –Announces Cray EL92™ and Cray EL98™ systems –Announces Cray XD1™ – – ––Signs first chemical industry customer (DuPont) –Signs first South African customer –Announces Cray XT3™ supercomputer – ––Signs first Australian customer (DoD) (South Africa Weather Service) –Announces Cray X1E™ supercomputer 1973 ––Signs first SE Asian customer ––Opens business headquarters in Bloomington, MN (Technological Univ. of Malaysia) ––Announces ™ 1987 massively parallel processing (MPP) system 2006 ––Opens subsidiary in Spain ––Signs first financial customer (Merrill Lynch) ––Announces Cray XT4™ supercomputer 1975 ––America’s Cup-winning yacht “Stars & Stripes” ––Announces massively multithreaded ––Powers up first Cray-1™ supercomputer designed on Cray X-MP system Cray XMT™ supercomputer ––Ships 200th system ––Exceeds 1 TBps on HPCC benchmark ––Becomes Fortune 500 company 1994 test on system – ––Establishes Cray Academy –Announces ––Wins $200M contract to deliver 1976 ––Tera Computer Company founded ™ world’s largest supercomputer to ––Delivers first Cray-1 system supercomputer, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) (Los Alamos National Laboratory) first wireless system ––Wins $52M contract with National Energy Research ––Issues first public stock offering ––Signs first Chinese Scientific Computing Center ––Receives first official customer order 1988 customer (National ––Signs $250M agreement (National Center for Atmospheric ––Opens subsidiaries in South Korea and India Meteorological to develop Research) ––Announces Cray Y-MP™ supercomputer, Center) breakthrough first to sustain 1 gigaflops ––Signs first Polish adaptive ––Signs first Spanish customer (CASA) customer (Poznan supercomputer with ––Signs first Indian customer (National Centre for Supercomputing & Defense Advanced 1977 Medium Range Weather Forecasting) Networking Center) Research Projects ––Makes first international shipment (European ––Signs first S. Korean customer ––Acquires Savant Systems Agency (DARPA) Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts) (Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology) ––Acquires Minnesota ––Produces first commercially available automatic ––Ships 300th system Supercomputing Center vectorizing compiler ––Announces ™ system ––Cray researchers discover 33rd Mersenne prime 2007 1983 on system ––Wins $85M ––Opens subsidiary in Canada 1989 contract to provide 1978 ––Signs first Dutch customer (Shell) ––Cray-1 supercomputer enters Smithsonian Institute centerpiece system for ––First Cray User Group (CUG) meeting ––Signs first automotive customer (GM) ––Cray Blitz program beats chess grand master UK’s HECToR project ––Opens subsidiary in the UK ––Signs first Swedish customer (Saab) ––Signs first Finnish customer (VTKK) 1995 ––Establ ishes development office in Austin ––Scientists discover 29th Mersenne prime on ––Signs first pharmaceutical customers ––Announces ™ MPP supercomputer, ––Announces Cray XT5™ supercomputer, MPP system Cray X-MP system (Eli Lily and Monsanto) first to sustain 1 teraflops performance ––Announces Cray XT5h™ hybrid supercomputer featuring ––Seymour Cray leaves CRI and forms ––Announces Cray T94™ system ™ vector blade and Cray XR1™ FPGA blade 1979 Cray Computer Corporation ––Signs first university customer (Univ. of London) ––Signs first Russian customer (Roshydromet) ––Announces Cray Y-MP 2E™ supercomputer, ––Signs first electronics customer (Bell Labs) 1984 first air-cooled system ––Opens subsidiaries in Japan and Germany ––Signs first Saudi Arabian customer (Aramco) ––Signs first German customer ––Opens subsidiary in Italy 2008 (Max Planck Institute) 1996 ––Announces strategic partnership with Intel on ––Cray researchers discover ––Cray researcher discovers 27th Mersenne future supercomputing products 1990 34th Mersenne prime on Cray T94 system prime on Cray-1 system ––Launches Cray CX1™ deskside supercomputer ––Announces Cray XMS™ and Cray EL™ systems ––Silicon Graphics purchases Cray Research ––Announces Cray-1S™ supercomputer 1985 ––Receives first Bell-Perfect award and partnership with Microsoft – –Signs first Italian customer (CINECA) ––Establishes Cray Europe ––Cray XT™ system at ORNL breaks sustained ––Ships 100th system petaflops barrier ––Opens subsidiaries in Switzerland and Australia 1998 1980 ––Cray researcher discovers 30th Mersenne prime ––Multistreaming compiler developed ––Signs first Japanese customer on Cray X-MP system 1991 for Cray SV1™ (Century Research Corp.) ––Ships 100th Cray Y-MP ––Tera introduces Tera MTA supercomputer, ––Signs first aeronautical and 2009 system first multithreaded architecture system ––Forms India subsidiary aerospace customer (Boeing) ––Announces Cray Y-MP ––Launches Cray XTm™ midrange supercomputer series – –Opens subsidiary in France 8™, Cray Y-MP EL™ ––Acquires PathScale Compiler Suite assets from SiCortex – –Signs first French customer (Electricité de France) and Cray Y-MP 4E™ ––Introduces Cray CX1-iWS™ with exclusive reseller Dell systems 2000 ––Cray XT5 system at ORNL named world’s fastest ––Acquires Floating Point ––Tera acquires CRI business unit from SGI and supercomputer on Top500 list Systems, Inc. forms Cray Inc., headquartered in Seattle ––Introduces next-generation 1981 ––Forms Cray Customer ––Announces Cray SV1ex™ supercomputer ––Signs first petroleum customer (Atlantic Cray XT6™ supercomputer series Service division Richfield) ––Announces Cray C90™ ––Introduces Cray-2™ supercomputer supercomputer, and liquid cooling technology first computer with 1 2001 2010 gigaflops processor ––Announces Cray SX-6™ series ––Introduces Cray CX1000™, rack-mounted ––Announces Alpha Linux supercluster systems supercomputer 1982 with Intel® ––Announces SSD™ solid-state storage device Xeon® ––Announces Cray X-MP™, the first multiprocessor 1992 processors ––Signs first Swiss customer – supercomputer 2002 –Releases (EPFL) ––Announces Cray-1M™ supercomputer ––Announces ™ supercomputer, first system Cray Linux ––Announces Cray Y-MP M90™ and Cray S-MP™ ––Moves corporate office to Minneapolis with 51 teraflops peak performance Environment™ superservers ––Signs first Canadian customer ––Joins Russell 3000 Index 3.0 with Cluster ––Signs first Czech customer (Canada Met) ––Signs $90M “Red Storm” contract with Compatibility (Czech Hydrometeorological Institute) ––Cray researcher discovers 28th Sandia National Laboratories Mode ––Cray researcher discovers – Mersenne prime on Cray-1 system –Launches 32nd Mersenne prime on Cray-2 system Cray XE6™ ––Releases first Fortran 90 compiler supercomputer, next-generation MPP system

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