Steve Conway, 612/683-7133



FIRST CRAY RESEARCH ORDER IN SOUTHEAST ASIA



Kuala Lumpur, August 9, 1993 -- The Faculty of Computer Science and Information Systems at

the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) has ordered a  CRAY Y-MP EL supercomputer system

to be installed in the newly established Advanced Computing Laboratory at its Jalan Semarak

campus in Kuala Lumpur.  This will be the first Cray Research system to be installed in

Southeast Asia.



The CRAY Y-MP EL will be used for large-scale computation simulation in a wide variety of

scientific disciplines.



"Industrialised nations around the world increasingly rely on supercomputer systems to bring

better, safer, more efficient products to market quicker," said Professor Jamaludin, the

faculty's Dean.  "Malaysia is now on the path of educating its scientists and engineers in the

application of sophisticated computer modelling for future R&D," he added.



The new system forms the delivery platform of a series of training courses that will be offered

through the Cray Training Centre that is being set up jointly by UTM and Cray Research within

the Advanced Computing Laboratory.



Commenting on the order at today's contract signing ceremony, the Regional Manager for Cray

Research, Peter Boek, said, "this order confirms Cray Research's strength in adding the

transfer of skills to our product.  We are supporting UTM in every possible way to ensure their

supercomputer and the application software installed on it will be productively used."



According to Professor Jamaludin, there are a number of researchers at UTM anxiously waiting

the arrival of the Cray system.  He predicts that UTM will quickly build experience in the 

application of high-performance computing and that local industry will be able to explore the

potential of large-scale simulation using the facility.



"Heightening our country's awareness of the power of this technology is an important phase

towards achieving a world class R&D capability.  This system marks the beginning of that

process," Professor Jamaludin added.



Cray Research has more than 360 systems installed world-wide.  Apart from some 100

universities, these systems are used extensively in weather forecasting, automotive and

airplane design analysis, chemistry and drug design, petroleum exploration and electronic

design.



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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