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In a bid to simplify its product lines and get an edge on competitors, Cray plans a multi-year strategy to unify four different supercomputing technologies into a single, versatile machine.

The company plans to announce the concept Monday with its multi-year, three-phase "adaptive supercomputing" plan, said Jan Silverman, senior vice president of corporate strategy.

"No single processor architecture can best execute all programs," Silverman said. "You really need a combination of processor architectures to execute as efficiently as possible. And you have to hide that complexity from the users."

Cray faces competition from competitors such as IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems and Dell, whose systems work for mainstream computing tasks and therefore sell much more widely. And the company could use a financial boost.
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