Media:Mardi Schmieder, 612/683-3538 Financial:Laura Merriam, 612/683-7395 HYUNDAI ORDERS FIRST CRAY RESEARCH SUPERCOMPUTER EAGAN, Minn., July 13, 1993 -- Cray Research announced today that the Hyundai Motor Company has ordered a CRAY Y-MP 4E supercomputer to be installed this summer at the Hyundai Passenger Car Engineering Center in Ulsan, Republic of Korea. This is the first supercomputer and the first Cray Research system purchased by Hyundai. The automaker will use the supercomputer for structural and mechanical engineering applications related to new car design, crash worthiness testing, external airflow simulation, and engine combustion. According to J. S. Choi, director of Hyundai's Passenger Car Engineering Center, the Cray Research system was selected based on the availability of application software, the system's performance on benchmark tests, and its cost-performance evaluations. "We are very happy to acquire the Cray Research system," said Choi. "Considering the balanced performance, wide variety of application software and worldwide reputation, we had no doubt that the CRAY Y-MP 4E system would be the most appropriate solution, especially for our first step into supercomputing. The Cray Research system will pave the way for breakthroughs in Hyundai's new car designs." Cray Research systems run key structural, fluid dynamics, and crash analysis software programs used today by virtually every worldwide automotive company. The Hyundai order also includes a license for CRI/TurboKiva software, a Cray Research- designed engine combustion simulation software package that helps shorten the time required to design and test new car engines. The software models fluid flows -- air intake, combustion, and exhaust characteristics -- and provides three-dimensional graphic simulations of internal combustion engines used in passenger cars, trucks and off-road vehicles. To develop the new software, Cray Research commercialized a Los Alamos National Laboratory program called KIVA. There are currently seven worldwide auto companies, universities and government sites using the software. "We are pleased to provide Hyundai with its first supercomputer system," said John Carlson, Cray Research chairman and chief executive officer. "Overseas sales remain highly competitive for us, and we appreciate the opportunity to provide Hyundai engineers with the high- performance computational tools that will allow them to design even safer, higher-quality vehicles." Including Cray Research's entry-level system, the company has more than 450 systems installed worldwide including five in Korea. There are 38 Cray Research systems used for automotive engineering and design throughout the world. Cray Research creates the most powerful, highest-quality computational tools for solving the world's most challenging industrial and scientific problems. ###