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Contact:       Jackie Helfrich/ for Locate In Scotland
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               Steve Conway/ for Cray Research, Inc.
               612/683-7133

EDINBURGH TO INSTALL NEW CRAY PARALLEL
SUPERCOMPUTER

Machine Will Be The Fastest In Europe

Edinburgh, Scotland, April 14, 1994 -- A new CRAY T3D
massively parallel supercomputer with a processing capacity
of 40 billion floating point operations per second (Gflop) will
be installed this month at the Edinburgh Parallel Computing
Centre (EPCC) at the University of Edinburgh, with plans to
commission it in the summer.  The machine, from Minnesota-
based Cray Research, Inc., will be the fastest in Europe and one
of the ten fastest in the world.

EPCC was selected by the UK Science & Engineering Research
Council (SERC) to host the $12 million computer which will be
used to research complex scientific problems such as mapping
the human genome, modelling climatic change, simulating air
flow, drug research and sub-atomic particle investigation.

The CRAY uses 256 Scottish-manufactured Alpha RISC
processors from Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), each of
which provides for 150 Mflops peak performance.  It is
estimated that the machine will be five times more powerful
than the UK's current fastest, also housed at EPCC.

Running on Cray's UNICOS operating system, a CRAY Y-MP4E
system with 212 Gigabytes of disk memory will link the
computer to SuperJANET, the UK's high-speed academic data
communications network.  "Researchers throughout the UK will
be able to access the system," says Richard Kenway, EPCC
Director.  "It will be an important stimulus for collaborative
efforts between academia and industry, further strengthening
Scotland's culture of technology transfer."

In 1990, a $5.25 million grant from the UK government helped
to establish the EPCC as a dedicated research center for
parallel processing.  The Centre has since earned an
international reputation for academic and industrial work in
large scale computing.  Edinburgh University, where the Centre
is based, is the UK's leading university research center in
Information Technology (IT) and one of the world's top ten.

Advanced, high-performance computers are not new to
Scotland, which produces 10 percent of the world's PCs and 15
percent of Europe's semiconductors.  Additionally, five of the
world's top 10 PC and workstation manufacturers have plants
in Scotland including US-owned DEC, Compaq, IBM, Sun
Microsystems, and Hewlett-Packard.

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