DOE/Washington: Amber Jones 202-586-5806 Cray/Media: Steve Conway 612-683-7133 Cray/Financial: Bill Gacki 612-683-7372 Lawrence Livermore: Breck Henderson 510-424-5806 Los Alamos: Jim Danneskiold 505-667-7000 CRAY RESEARCH, DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY LAUNCH $52 MILLION TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER PROGRAM WITH LOS ALAMOS AND LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORIES, 15 INDUSTRIAL FIRMS Program Goals Are To Advance Science, Boost U.S. Industrial Competitiveness EAGAN, Minn., June 7, 1994 -- In the most far-reaching technology transfer agreement to date involving high- performance computer systems, Cray Research, Inc. (NYSE:CYR) today announced that it has signed a Cooperative Agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy for a $52 million, cost- shared program to develop scientific and commercial software for massively parallel processing (MPP) systems in collaboration with the DOE's Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, and 15 leading U.S. industrial firms. The program's goals are to advance science and boost U.S. industrial competitiveness, the company said. The program includes 15 projects in the fields of environmental modeling, petroleum exploration, materials design, advanced manufacturing, and new MPP systems software. Participating industrial partners include: Alcoa Aluminum Co. of America, Amoco Production Co., Arete Engineering Technologies Corp., AT&T Bell Laboratories, Berea, Inc., Biosym Technologies, Inc., Boeing Co., Exxon Research and Engineering Co. (a subsidiary of Exxon Corp.), General Motors Power Train Group, Halliburton Corp., Hughes Aircraft, International Technology Corp., Rocket Research Co. (a division of Olin Corp.), Schlumberger-Doll Research, Xerox Corp. and Thinking Machines Corp. "The environmental applications, when developed, are expected to significantly increase our understanding of phenomena ranging from environmental contamination and remediation, to the design of more efficient, cleaner-burning engines," said Alex R. Larzalere, the Department of Energy's program manager, high-performance computing, Defense Programs Technology Transfer. "The petroleum applications will allow more effective location and extraction of energy resources; the materials design applications are targeted at improving processes as common and as important as welding and casting; the advanced manufacturing software projects are related to things as far-ranging as satellite technology, automotive airbags, and semiconductors of unprecedented sophistication; finally, the MPP systems software projects are aimed at increasing the usefulness of these powerful systems." The program is based on a Cray Research proposal competitively chosen in November 1993 under the DOE's High Performance Parallel Processor (HPPP) program, said Robert Ewald, Cray Research chief operating officer, supercomputer operations. Contract terms call for the supercomputer firm to lead the private-sector consortium that will work with the two national laboratories to pursue the MPP software development projects involving approximately 70 full- or part- time software development experts. Costs for the three-year program will be shared among all parties, with an approximate 50-50 split between DOE and private-sector funding and with Cray Research as the heaviest private-sector contributor, Larzalere said. The $52 million contract value for the overall program is based on the cost of computer systems and infrastructure support, as well as costs for the time of dedicated personnel. Two 128-processor CRAY T3D massively parallel processing systems (model SC128/364-8) provided by Cray Research on a cost-shared basis, one at each laboratory, will be networked together for the collaborative applications development work, he said. Cray Research will devote six full-time-equivalent (FTE) applications development staff for the three-year duration of the agreement; the laboratories together will devote 18 FTEs; the industrial partners together an additional 20 FTEs. For each of the projects, a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) will be negotiated based on a model CRADA agreed to by the DOE and the Computer Systems Policy Project (CSPP), a group consisting of the CEOs of 13 of the largest U.S. computer firms. These agreements are expected to be completed within the next three to six months, Larzalere said. This collaboration is also an integral part of Cray Research's Parallel Applications Technology Program (PATP), a broad initiative to develop MPP applications that also includes the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Caltech, and the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Ewald said. Cray Research personnel will be directly involved in nine of the collaborative projects, including one that pairs Cray with fellow MPP vendor Thinking Machines Corp. to develop programming methods that will allow MPP applications to run compatibly on various companies' systems. For this project, the CRAY T3D system at Los Alamos will be linked to an existing Thinking Machines CM-5 system at the same site. Dr. Hassan Dayem, director of the computing, information and communications division at Los Alamos, commented, "This unique partnership between the labs, DOE, and industry gives us an exciting opportunity to contribute to national competitiveness by transferring advanced software technologies to U.S. industrial partners." "We are excited about this important collaboration with two of the Department of Energy's premier research facilities, Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore, and leading names in U.S. industry," said Cray Research chairman and chief executive John F. Carlson. "We expect the technologies emerging from this program to benefit science, U.S. industrial competitiveness and the quality of life for all Americans. Cray Research is proud that our proposal was selected, and that the CRAY T3D system will be used for this significant work." Carlson noted that an earlier Cray Research technology transfer project with Los Alamos turned the laboratory's KIVA software into a commercial product, CRI/TurboKIVA, that automotive companies are now using to develop more efficient, environmentally safer engines in shorter time periods. In addition, he said, Cray Research previously began three Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADAs) with Los Alamos related to global climate modeling, computational chemistry and electromagnetic wave effects in ultrahigh-speed electronic devices. Los Alamos National Laboratory (Los Alamos, N. Mex.) is a multidisciplinary research organization that applies science and technology to problems of national security ranging from defense to energy research. It is operated by the University of California for the U.S. Department of Energy. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (Palo Alto, Calif.), managed by the University of California for the U.S. Department of Energy, conducts research and development important to national goals, including national defense. Cray Research provides the leading supercomputing tools and services to help solve customers' most challenging problems. ###