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FRENCH ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION ORDERS 

CRAY T3D MASSIVELY PARALLEL SYSTEM 

 

EAGAN, Minn., Dec. 14, 1993 -- Cray Research, Inc. (NYSE:CRY)

announced today that the Commissariat a L'Energie Atomique

(CEA), the French Atomic Energy Commission, has ordered a

CRAY T3D massively parallel processing system. 



A 128-processor CRAY T3D system is scheduled to be installed

in second-quarter 1994 at the Centre d'Etudes Nucleaires de

Grenoble, the CEA center for civil and commercial nuclear

research.  A CRAY C94 parallel vector supercomputer, also

ordered by CEA, is scheduled for earlier installation by year-

end 1993.   The two systems will be closely linked to provide

CEA users with a heterogenous computing environment

including massively parallel and parallel vector capabilities,

Cray Research said. 



The new heterogeneous system will serve as a central

resource for three scientific data centers.  It replaces an

existing CRAY-2 system and two CRAY X-MP supercomputers at

these centers and will be used for simulation studies in

physics and fluid dynamics for nuclear research, molecular

architecture, biology and global climate change. 

 

"Earlier this year, CEA's military division ordered a CRAY T3D

massively parallel supercomputer for laser physics,

electrodynamic and aerodynamic studies," said John Carlson,

Cray Research chairman and CEO.  "We're pleased to deliver a

second CRAY T3D system to CEA for civilian applications."



Cray Research has more than 450 systems installed worldwide. 

Since the CRAY T3D system was announced in Sept. 1993, there

have been 12 orders for the new system.  



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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