ARSC T3D Announcement
Mardi Larson, 612/683-3538

ARCTIC REGION SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER TO INSTALL 
128-PROCESSOR CRAY T3D MASSIVELY PARALLEL PROCESSING
SYSTEM

EAGAN, Minn., Jan. 24, 1994 -- The Arctic Region
Supercomputing Center (ARSC) is scheduled to install a 128-
processor CRAY T3D massively parallel processing (MPP)
system later this quarter at its facility on the University of
Alaska Fairbanks campus, Cray Research, Inc. announced today. 

ARSC ordered a CRAY T3D system and a CRAY Y-MP M98 system
in fourth quarter 1992.  The CRAY Y-MP M98 system, a large
memory system with 8,000-megabyte (million bytes) of
central memory, was installed in September of 1993.     

The new CRAY T3D system will be closely coupled with the
CRAY Y-MP M98 system to provide ARSC users with a
heterogeneous computing environment that combines parallel
vector processing and MPP capabilities.  ARSC supports
environmental research with an emphasis on the Arctic. 

The sensitive Arctic environment is where ozone depletion,
global warming and some air pollution have first been
observed.  Supported by ARSC, scientists from diverse
disciplines study the Arctic because it is there where global
environmental problems are often first identified and can be
indicators of possible worldwide problems. 

"The new CRAY T3D system, along side our existing four-
processor CRAY Y-MP M98 system, will be a powerful
combination supporting high latitude research, general
science, oceanic studies, and other mission critical' U.S.
government initiatives," said ARSC Director Tom Healy. 

"We are pleased that our MPP system will be applied to the
important global research work of the Arctic Region
Supercomputing Center," said John Carlson, Cray Research
chairman and chief executive officer.   He said the company has
now received 15 orders for the new CRAY T3D system, which
was unveiled in September 1993. 

ARSC is a national facility of the Strategic Environmental
Research and Development Program (SERDP) of the Department
of Defense (DOD), administered by the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers Waterways Experiment Station.   In 1991, Congress
appropriated $25,000,000 to establish the supercomputer
center.   

Pricing for the 128-processor CRAY T3D system begins at $5.5
million (U.S.), the company said.

Cray Research creates the most powerful, highest-quality
computational tools for solving the world's most challenging
scientific and industrial problems.  

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