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Cray Expands Storage and Data Management Team

SEATTLE, WA--(Marketwire - Oct 18, 2012) - Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (NASDAQ: CRAY), the world's leading expert in large-scale parallel storage systems for high performance computing (HPC), today announced it has strengthened its storage and data management team with the addition of key individuals from SystemFabricWorks (SFW), a recognized leader in storage interconnect solutions and software. Through an agreement with SFW, Cray has hired the majority of SFW's employees as Cray continues its leadership in developing and deploying high-performance production parallel file system solutions for the HPC and Big Data marketplaces.

Among the SFW employees now working at Cray are Robert (Bob) Pearson, the former CEO of SFW, and Bill Boas, previously the vice president of business development for SFW and a co-founder of the Open Fabric Alliance. A number of highly-skilled engineers from SFW have also joined Cray's storage and data management team, significantly enhancing Cray's expertise in Lustre-based storage solutions. SFW is continuing its operations with a new management team.

"Expanding our team with some of the top storage and Infiniband engineering experts is an important step in continuing to drive Cray's growth in the storage market," said Barry Bolding, Cray's vice president of storage and data management. "Our expanding base of HPC storage customers have demanding integration and deployment requirements and are looking for vendors like Cray that have experience in both storage and storage interconnects such as Infiniband. At Cray, we are creating a storage team with the design expertise and best practices that are critical to the performance, management and scalability of parallel storage systems over time."

Bolding added, "This announcement is another positive milestone in a recent string of new customer announcements for our scale-out Sonexion storage system, as well as our portfolio of storage offerings from partners such as Data Direct Networks and NetApp. It's an exciting time for our team and we're looking forward to the future."

To date, Cray has shipped more than 50 petabytes of storage capacity in 2012, and has delivered Cray Sonexion storage systems to customers in the energy, government and academic market segments. As part of the Blue Waters supercomputer at the University of Illinois' National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Cray recently installed a 36-cabinet, 25 petabyte Sonexion storage system capable of delivering more than one terabyte-per-second of I/O bandwidth performance to more than 25,000 compute nodes.

In June, Cray announced it will deliver a next-generation Sonexion storage system to the Department of Energy's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) that will scale to more than six petabytes of usable storage and more than 140 gigabytes per second of sustained aggregate IO performance. A number of other leading HPC centers around the world have already signed contracts for Sonexion storage systems, including the Pawsey Centre in Perth, Australia, and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) in Lugano, Switzerland.

The Cray Sonexion storage system is a fully integrated, Cray-supported scale-out Lustre storage system for HPC. The system's modular, compact design keeps costs low and provides precision scalability for HPC clusters and applications of all types.

About Cray Inc.
As a global leader in supercomputing, Cray provides highly advanced supercomputers and world-class services and support to government, industry and academia. Cray technology is designed to enable scientists and engineers to achieve remarkable breakthroughs by accelerating performance, improving efficiency and extending the capabilities of their most demanding applications. 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 surpass today's limitations and meeting the market's continued demand for realized performance. Go to www.cray.com for more information.

Safe Harbor Statement
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 ability to deliver the Sonexion storage systems required by customers when required and that meet customers' needs. 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 the Sonexion storage systems required by customers are not delivered in a timely fashion or do not perform as expected and such other risks as identified in the Company's quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2012, 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.

Cray is a registered trademark of Cray Inc. in the United States and other countries, and Sonexion is a trademark of Cray Inc. Other product and service names mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners.

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