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1989 Cray-1 supercomputer enters Smithsonian Institute Cray Blitz program beats chess grand master Seymour Cray leaves CRI and forms Cray Computer Corporation Introduces Cray® Y-MP 2E™ supercomputer, first air-cooled system Breaks sustained 1 gigaflops barrier with Cray Y-MP system 1987 America’s Cup-winning yacht “Stars & Stripes” designed on Cray X-MP system Ships 200th system Tera Computer Company founded in Seattle 1982 Introduces SSD™ solid-state storage device Introduces Cray® X-MP™ supercomputer, first multiprocessor system 1988 Introduces Cray® Y-MP™ supercomputer, first to sustain 1 gigaflops Ships 300th system 1985 Ships 100th system 1983 Scientists discover 29th Mersenne prime on Cray X-MP system 1981 Introduces Cray-2™ supercomputer and liquid cooling technology 1998 Develops multistreaming compiler for Cray® SV1™ supercomputer Tera introduces MTA™ supercomputer, first multithreaded architecture system 1995 Introduces Cray® T3E™ supercomputer, first to sustain 1 teraflops performance Introduces Cray® T94™ system 1993 Introduces Cray® EL92™, EL98™ and T3D™ systems 1991 Acquires Floating Point Systems, Inc. Introduces Cray® C90™ supercomputer, first system with 1 gigaflops processor 1996 Silicon Graphics purchases Cray Research 1994 Introduces Cray® T90™ and J90™ supercomputers Acquires Savant Systems and Minnesota Supercomputing Center 1992 Introduces Cray® Y-MP M90™ and S-MP™ superservers Releases first Fortran 90 compiler 1990 Introduces Cray® XMS™ and EL™ systems Establishes Cray Europe 2018 Launches exascale-class supercomputing system, code-named “Shasta™” Introduces exascale-ready Slingshot™ interconnect Announces $146M NERSC-9 contract for nearly 100-PF Shasta system in 2020 Introduces Cray® Urika®-CS AI and Analytics software suite 2016 Launches Cray® Urika®-GX agile analytics platform 2015 Opens EMEA headquarters and research lab in the U.K. Installs India’s first-ever petaflop supercomputer at Indian Institute of Science Welcomes weather customers in Australia, Denmark and Switzerland; more than half the world’s global weather modeling centers use Cray systems 2013 Launches Cray® CS300-AC™ and CS300-LC™ cluster supercomputers Introduces Cray® XC30-AC™ supercomputer 2011 Introduces Cray® XK6™ hybrid supercomputer Enters storage market with Cray® Sonexion® data storage system Wins $188M contract with National Science Foundation for Blue Waters project Launches OpenACC™ parallel programming standard organization 2019 Announces contract to build first U.S. exascale system with Intel and Argonne National Lab Announces contract to build record-setting Frontier supercomputer at ORNL 2017 Launches Cray® XC50™ supercomputer and Cray® Urika®-XC analytics software suite Announces Cray Accel AI Lab and new Cray CS-Storm models for AI workloads Partners with Markley to offer Supercomputing as a Service Acquires ClusterStor™ line of storage solutions from Seagate Partners with Microsoft to offer supercomputing in the Microsoft Azure Cloud Announces world’s first production-ready Arm®-based supercomputer 2014 Announces Cray® CS-Storm™ accelerator-optimized solution Launches latest generation of Cray® XC™ and CS™ series systems Introduces Cray® Urika®-XA extreme analytics platform Posts company’s largest win ever outside the U.S. with multi-year U.K. Met Office deal 2012 Forms YarcData® and launches Urika® graph analytics appliance Sells interconnect assets to Intel for $140 million Introduces Cray® XK7™ hybrid supercomputer; ORNL’s XK7 system “Titan” named world’s fastest on TOP500® list Launches Cray® XC30™ supercomputer 2010 Introduces Cray® XE6™ and CX1000™ supercomputers 2009 Cray XT5 system at ORNL named world’s fastest supercomputer on TOP500® list Introduces Cray® XT6™ system 2007 Wins $85M contract to provide system for U.K.’s HECToR project Launches Cray® XT5™ and XT5h™ supercomputers 2004 Acquires OctigaBay Systems Introduces Cray® XD1™, XT3™ and X1E™ supercomputers 2001 Introduces Cray® SX-6™ series Launches Alpha Linux® supercluster systems 2008 Announces strategic partnership with Intel on future supercomputing products Launches Cray® CX1™ deskside supercomputer and partnership with Microsoft Cray® XT™ system at ORNL breaks sustained petaflops barrier 2006 Launches Cray® XT4™ and XMT™ supercomputers Exceeds 1 TB per second on HPCC benchmark test on Red Storm system Wins $200M contract to deliver world’s largest supercomputer to ORNL Signs $250M agreement to develop adaptive supercomputer with DARPA 2002 Introduces Cray® X1™ system, first with 51 TF peak performance Signs $90M “Red Storm” contract with Sandia National Laboratories 2000 Tera Computer Company acquires Cray from Silicon Graphics, becomes Cray Inc. Introduces Cray® SV1ex™ supercomputer 1977 Makes first international shipment (European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts) Produces first commercially available automatic vectorizing compiler 1975 Powers up first Cray-1™ supercomputer APRIL 6, 1972 Cray Research, Inc. (CRI) opens in Chippewa Falls, WI 1979 Introduces Cray-1S™ supercomputer 1978 Cray User Group (CUG) forms 1976 Delivers first Cray-1 system (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Issues first public stock offering Receives first official customer order (National Center for Atmospheric Research) 1973 Opens business headquarters in Bloomington, MN A HISTORY OF COMPUTATION & CREATIVITY Cray® X1™ Cray® T90™ Cray® X-MP™ Cray® Y-MP™ Cray® C90™ Cray® T3E™ Cray® XT5™ Cray® XC50™ Cray-1™ Cray-2™ Cray® Shasta™ Cray® XE6™
