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Mardi Larson 612/683-3538

DUTCH NATIONAL ACADEMIC SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER INSTALLS 
NEW CRAY RESEARCH SUPERCOMPUTER

EAGAN, Minn., Dec. 1, 1993 -- Cray Research announced today
that Stichting Academisch Rekencentrum Amsterdam (SARA),
the Dutch national supercomputer center located in
Amsterdam, has ordered and will install a new CRAY C98
supercomputer system early next year.

Purchase of the supercomputer system was funded by the
Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
(NWO), or the Dutch Organization for Scientific Research, the
Dutch equivalent to the National Science Foundation in the
United States.  The Cray Research supercomputer will be used
by research institutes and universities in the Netherlands.  The
system will be used for research in chemistry, fluid dynamics,
structural analysis and other scientific fields.

SARA's CRAY C98 system will have four central processing
units (CPUs) and 256 million words of central memory.  It
replaces a four-CPU CRAY Y-MP with 64 million words of memory, which was
installed in 1990.  The new system has up to three times the processing
power and four times the central memory of the previous
system.

"The new CRAY C98 system is of particular importance as we
are faced with a workload of over 90 percent of the capacity
of our present Cray Research system," said Tjaart Schipper,
director of SARA.  "The upgrading enables us to ensure the high
quality of our national supercomputer services."

"The NWO's sponsorship of the new system and the increasing
demand for supercomputing resources at SARA demonstrates
the wide range of supercomputer-class problems now being
undertaken in the research community," said John Carlson, Cray
Research chairman and CEO.  "We are pleased to provide
increasingly powerful solutions to support leading
international research."

Including entry level systems, Cray Research has more than
450 systems installed worldwide.  There are 50 systems
installed at universities and university research centers.

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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