Cray Acquires PathScale Compiler Suite Assets From SiCortex

SEATTLE, WA, Aug 27 (MARKET WIRE) --
Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (NASDAQ: CRAY) today announced it
has acquired the PathScale Compiler Suite assets from SiCortex. Financial
terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Cray plans to leverage some of the PathScale intellectual property to
enhance Cray's own compiler offerings over time. The company will
contribute other parts of the PathScale intellectual property to the open
source community through an alliance with NetSyncro.com, an organization
of compiler engineers with strong open source ties. NetSyncro.com will
continue developing the PathScale Compiler Suite, provide support for
users of the software and will rebrand the effort under the original
PathScale name.

"Our main goal for this acquisition was to provide clear direction for
those Cray customers who want to continue using the PathScale Compiler
Suite on Cray supercomputers," said Peter Ungaro, Cray president and CEO.
"We believe turning the PathScale compiler's future development and
customer support over to a new and similar PathScale organization
accomplishes our goal, as it provides a path forward for PathScale
compiler users and helps ensure that the software will have a robust,
open source HPC community around it. We also expect our own world-class
compiler to benefit from some of the PathScale technology. This is
another indicative example of our strategy to acquire the key technology
components necessary to building a productive, high performance user
environment on our supercomputers."

"I cannot express enough gratitude to Cray in helping rebuild PathScale
and giving us this opportunity for the future," said Christopher
Bergstroem, PathScale's new CTO. "Our vision ahead is bright and
optimistic with a focus to continue our position as one of the highest
performing HPC compilers in the industry. As a new member of the
PathScale team I intend to lead the way in building a strong open source
community for PathScale. We believe our solid commitment to open source
will enable the community to thrive by facilitating collaboration,
sharing of knowledge, innovation and research."

"PathScale's EKO compiler suite has been a popular choice in the HPC
community since 2004," said PathScale Engineering Director Fred Chow. "Our
performance stands out amongst the competition and we continue to raise
the standard for the industry. We thank Cray for supporting PathScale and
for fulfilling the engineers' wishes to continue their work. The new
PathScale will focus on improving product delivery, quality of support,
and porting to new platforms to substantially expand our impact in the
open source community. We will also focus not only on benchmark results,
but collaboration with important open source projects and helping
developers tune for performance."

Cray supports three compiler options for the Cray XT(TM) line of
supercomputers: The Portland Group's PGI Server Fortran/C/C++ Compilers
and Tools for Linux; the PathScale Compiler Suite, which includes
high-performance 64-bit C, C++ and Fortran compilers for Linux-based
environments; and the Cray Compiler Environment (CCE). The Portland Group
continues to be the primary compiler partner for Cray systems, with both
PathScale and CCE providing a more comprehensive user environment where
required.

Migration paths will be available for all Cray customers, who can contact
their Cray representative for additional information. Non-Cray customers
who use the PathScale compiler should contact the new PathScale
organization directly at http://www.pathscale.com.

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 enables 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 will result
in 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.

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