Cray: Mardi Larson, 612/683-3538 Brown: Professor G.S. Guralnik, 401/863-2623 BROWN UNIVERSITY INSTALLS FIRST OF TWO CRAY RESEARCH SUPERCOMPUTERS EAGAN, Minn., Oct. 26, 1995 -- Cray Research announced today that Providence, RI.-based Brown University has installed the first of two CRAY(R) supercomputers to be dedicated to the university's Department of Physics. According to Cray, Brown's physics department is the first university physics department in the U.S. to acquire a Cray system. Terms were not disclosed. A large-memory (four gigabyte) CRAY EL98(TM) system was installed this year, to be followed by a CRAY J916(TM) system scheduled for installation later next year. These systems are the first Cray Research supercomputers acquired by Brown and will be used by Brown University Professors Guralnik, Kosterlitz, Marston, Tan and other university physicists and students who are focusing on problems in high-energy and condensed matter theoretical physics. These users will run simulations on the supercomputers to help them learn more about the basic structure of matter and its interactions. "Combined with analytic methods, the computational power of the Cray supercomputers will make an excellent tool for understanding how microscopic laws determine the higher level characteristics of matter," said Dr. Brad Marston, assistant professor of physics at Brown University. "The Cray supercomputers will give physicists at Brown a powerful tool to develop new ideas because of their ability to run the very complex simulations that are often needed to make predictions from current theories and ideas," Marston continued. While these CRAY systems will be used to perform calculations testing very abstract ideas, in time, the results could become important for everyday living. "When we understand something basic about the universe" said Dr. Gerald Guralnik, professor of physics at Brown, "it eventually affects the way we live. That is how we generated the technological advances we already have today. The knowledge that we obtain could be essential for developing new energy sources as well as leading to new product developments in the semiconductor and materials industries." The CRAY EL98 and CRAY J916 are Cray's compact, air-cooled supercomputers priced starting at $250,000 (U.S. list price). The supercomputers are designed to operate as powerful simulation servers for compute-intensive problems that challenge the capabilities of workstations. Since its announcement in September 1994, the current CRAY J90 line has attracted more than 200 orders, with about 40 percent coming from new-to-Cray customers including from new industries. Cray Research provides the leading high-performance computing tools and services to help solve customers' most challenging problems. ###