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CRANFIELD IS FIRST UK UNIVERSITY TO ORDER NEW
CRAY RESEARCH SUPERCOMPUTER

EAGAN, Minn., Jan. 17, 1995 -- Cranfield University, Bedford,
England, has become the first university in the United Kingdom
to order the new CRAY J916 supercomputer, Cray Research
(NYSE:CYR) announced today.  This month, Cranfield installed an
interim CRAY EL94 supercomputer which will be used until the
CRAY J90 system arrives later this year. 

The Cray Research compact supercomputer will be used
primarily by graduate students and researchers in the College
of Aeronautics (COA) and the Department of Turbomachinery
and Engineering Mechanics (DTE) to perform research for
worldwide aerospace and automotive industries, including
crash test research and engine combustion modeling.

The DTE will use Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
applications on the Cray Research compact supercomputers to
simulate primary air and water flow in turbomachines. 
"Cranfield engineers have been closely involved in various
developments in this field," said Professor Robin Elder, head of
DTE.  "The availability of such computing power will improve
the detail and accuracy of comparisons between simulations
and actual physical tests of flow within turbomachines,
something that was not possible with our current
computational resources."

"The Cray Research supercomputer is ideal for modern aircraft
design in the COA because of its capability to bring together
several pieces of complex information to accomplish a single
task," said Professor Alan Morris, head of the COA.  "Structural
analysis must be combined with CFD to describe the full
aeroelastic behavior of an aircraft, in other words, how the
structure of an aircraft and its engine behave in turbulent
conditions.  These analyses all form part of the research
activity of the COA, and access to Cray Research
supercomputing capability is essential to support them."

Introduced in September of last year, the CRAY J916 is a low-
cost, compact supercomputer designed to operate as a powerful
simulation server for problems that may overwhelm the
capabilities of workstations.  Cray reports that is has received
more than 80 orders for the system, which will begin shipping
next month. 

Cray Research provides the leading supercomputing tools and
services to help solve customers' most challenging problems.

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