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Cray Global Growth Continues With Opening of New EMEA Headquarters in the United Kingdom
June 2015 by Marc Jacob
Cray Inc. announced the establishment of
its European, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) headquarters at the Company’s new office
in Bristol, United Kingdom. Cray continues to expand its presence in the
supercomputing and big data markets across the region, and its new headquarters
strengthens the Company’s commitment to the commercial, academic, and government
customers in these countries.
Cray’s new EMEA headquarters will serve as a regional base for its EMEA sales,
service, training and operations, and as an important development site for worldwide
R&D initiatives. The new headquarters will also provide the company with a
centralized location for business engagements with new and existing customers.
The UK Minister of State for Culture and the Digital Economy, Mr. Ed Vaizey said,
"We are delighted that Cray has established its EMEA headquarters in Bristol. It is
exciting to see a recognised technology leader make the UK one of its global hubs.
It sends a very clear message to international organisations about innovation and
excellence in the UK technology sector and the benefits of using the support
available from UKTI, and we hope more companies follow Cray’s lead in this regard."
Cray has numerous supercomputing, storage and analytics customers across the EMEA
market. In just the last year, several high performance computing organizations in
the region have signed contracts for new Cray systems. These customers include the
PDC Center for High Performance Computing at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in
Stockholm, Sweden; the Met Office in the United Kingdom; the King Abdullah
University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia; Stalprodukt S.A., a
leading global steel processor in Poland; and Petroleum Geo-Services, a global
oil-and-gas company headquartered in Oslo, Norway.
Additional Cray customers in the region include the European Centre for Medium-Range
Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) in Reading; the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research
Council, which procured the ARCHER supercomputer for the UK National Supercomputing
Facility at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland; the High Performance Computing
Center Stuttgart (HLRS) at the University of Stuttgart; the Swiss National
Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) in Lugano, Switzerland; and the South African Weather
Service in Pretoria, South Africa.
Cray’s global headquarters are located in Seattle, Washington, and the Company’s
manufacturing facilities are based in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. Cray also has major
offices in St. Paul, Minnesota; San Jose and Pleasanton, California; Austin, Texas;
and Seoul, South Korea; and maintains sales and service offices in cities around the
world.
