COSTA MESA, Calif., May 4, 2004 (PRIMEZONE) -- Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX), the market leader in Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs) and a leading supplier of intelligent building blocks for next generation storage networking systems, today announced that Cray, Inc. (Nasdaq:CRAY), global supercomputer leader, has selected the Emulex 2Gb/s LP9802DC Fibre Channel PCI-X HBA for use as part of the Cray X1 System. As a result, Cray customers can now benefit from the reliability and serviceability provided by Emulex's storage connectivity solutions while using Cray systems for some of the most demanding computing applications ever performed. Emulex LP9802DC Fibre Channel HBAs are immediately available for use with Cray X1 high performance computing systems.
"Cray's selection of our HBAs proves that Emulex continues to produce and deliver products that meet the extreme demands of supercomputing environments," said Mike Smith, executive vice president of worldwide marketing at Emulex. "Emulex HBAs are used within all Cray X1 systems to provide connectivity between key embedded components, as well as being used in a more typical manner with networked storage associated with the Cray X1 system."
"Cray customers use our supercomputers for some of the world's most intensive applications," said Ly Pham, vice president of software development at Cray. "Emulex's offerings match the extreme reliability and flexibility requirements that we demand and that our customers require. Emulex's uniquely flexible firmware-based architecture allows both us and our customers to easily service, manage, scale and upgrade the connectivity within their supercomputer systems."
Emulex HBAs offer a unique firmware-based architecture and operating system driver compatibility across multiple product generations, which provides customers with a simplified upgrade path, reduced management complexities and also ensures a lower total cost of ownership. Emulex HBAs, including the LP9802DC, are fully compatible with drivers that support the company's centralized HBA management suite, HBAnyware(tm), which incorporates driver-based technology to enable complete management of Emulex HBAs and the ability to upgrade firmware anywhere in a storage solution from a single console.
About Cray Inc.
Cray's mission is to be the premier provider of supercomputing solutions for its customers' most challenging scientific and engineering problems. Go to www.cray.com for more information about the company.
About Emulex
Emulex Corporation is the world leader in Fibre Channel HBAs and delivers a broad range of intelligent building blocks for next generation storage networking systems. Emulex was named one of Forbes Magazine's 25 Fastest Growing Technology Companies, and ranked number 15 in Deloitte & Touche's 2003 Technology Fast 50.
The world's leading server and storage providers rely on Emulex HBAs, embedded storage switching and I/O controller products to build reliable, scalable and high performance storage solutions. The Emulex award-winning product families, including its LightPulse(tm) HBAs and InSpeed(tm) embedded storage switching products, are based on internally developed ASIC, firmware and software technologies, and offer customers high performance, scalability, flexibility and reduced total cost of ownership. The company's products have been selected by the world's leading server and storage providers, including Cray, Dell, EMC, Fujitsu Ltd., Fujitsu Siemens, Groupe Bull, HP, Hitachi Data Systems, IBM, NEC, Network Appliance, Quantum Corp., StorageTek, Sun Microsystems, Unisys and Xyratex. In addition, Emulex includes industry leaders Brocade, Computer Associates, Intel, McDATA, Microsoft and VERITAS among its strategic partners. Corporate headquarters are located in Costa Mesa, California. News releases and other information about Emulex Corporation are available at http://www.emulex.com.
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