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CRAY RESEARCH ANNOUNCES FIRST SYSTEM
INSTALLED IN IRELAND

EAGAN, Minn., April 6, 1993 -- The Queen's University of
Belfast has installed a CRAY Y-MP EL entry-level
supercomputer system at the university's computer center
in Belfast, Northern Ireland.  This is the first Cray Research
system in Ireland, as well as the first of the company's
entry-level systems to be installed at a UK university,
company officials said today.

The university's CRAY Y-MP EL system will be used as a
local resource for large-scale computation.  The new
system will also be linked to the more powerful CRAY Y-MP
8I supercomputer in the UK Atlas Supercomputing Centre at
the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory near Oxford, England.

The CRAY Y-MP EL system will be used for simulation in the
fields of aerodynamics, quantum chemistry, computer
science, combustion modeling, and physics.   According to
the university, the largest university user group will be the
Theoretical and Computational Physics Division of the
School of Mathematics and Physics.  This division was
awarded a UK Science and Engineering Research Council
(SERC) grant to assist with the acquisition of the Cray
Research system.  In addition, recently the Universities
Funding Council (UFC), which allocates budgets for all UK
universities, gave the division the highest possible rating
for its academic work.

"The installation of the CRAY Y-MP EL system will allow
this group to continue its world-class research and
maintain its position at the leading edge," said Professor
Philip G. Burke, member of the research group and SERC.

According to Professor Robin McDonough, director of the
university's computer center, "The CRAY Y-MP EL system
opens up a new world of sophisticated tools for both our
university researchers and local industry."  The university
plans to use the new CRAY Y-MP EL system to support
collaborative work with local industry, McDonough said.
The availability of this high-performance computing power
in Northern Ireland, coupled with the expertise within the
university, will enable local industry to realize the
commercial benefits of using numerical modeling in the
design of new products and processes, he said.

Researchers at The Queen's University of Belfast have been
using Cray Research systems at national centers for more
than a decade for advanced theoretical physics research.

"We are pleased to provide the university with this
powerful local computing resource," said Carl Diem,
executive vice president of worldwide sales and marketing
for Cray Research.  "With the university's experience in the
application of high-performance computing, commercial
organizations in Northern Ireland will be able to explore the
potential of large-scale simulation in a very effective
way."

The CRAY Y-MP EL system is jointly funded by the
university and the grant from SERC under its Computational
Sciences Initiative.

Including the CRAY Y-MP EL system, Cray Research has more
than 350 systems installed worldwide.  There are 25 Cray
Research systems located in the UK and more than 70 Cray
Research systems dedicated to academic research
worldwide.  Since Cray Research announced its entry-level
system in Oct.1991, the company has received orders for
more than 130 of these systems, more than 70 of them to
first-time Cray customers.

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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