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To: StanX Long who wrote (59922)	2/4/2002 12:33:40 AM
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Cray to Sell Dell's Computers for Use in Clusters By CHRIS GAITHER February 4, 2002 nytimes.com Cray Inc. (news/quote), the maker of some of the world's fastest supercomputers, plans to announce a deal today to resell smaller computers by Dell that can be linked into clusters of processors that solve complex problems. With the three-year agreement, Dell, the leading maker of PC's and second only to Compaq in sales of data-serving computers known as servers, hopes to build more of a presence in high-performance computing through Cray's relationships with scientists in government and industry. For Cray, which earned its legacy by building huge supercomputers that performed trillions of calculations a second, the deal is an attempt to fend off a strong threat from so- called clusters: tens or hundreds of less-expensive computers, connected by high-speed networks, that each tackle a small piece of the problems once handled by one extremely powerful machine. "Part of it is protection for Cray, saying, `If this is the way the market is going, we have to figure out a way to play here,' " said Michael R. Swenson, a research analyst with the International Data Corporation.