Cray Wins Contract In Middle East - Quick Facts

(RTTNews) - Cray Inc. (CRAY) Monday said it has been awarded a contract to provide King Abdullah University of Science and Technology or KAUST in Saudi Arabia with multiple Cray systems that span the company's line of compute, storage and analytics products.

The contract with KAUST marks Cray's return to the Middle East for the first time in nearly 20 years.

Cray will provide KAUST with a Cray XC40 supercomputer with DataWarp technology, a Cray Sonexion 2000 storage system, a Cray Tiered Adaptive Storage system and a Cray Urika-GD graph analytics appliance.

The Cray XC40 system at KAUST, named "Shaheen II," will be 25 times more powerful than its current system.