SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER TO RECEIVE
NEW SMALL VERSION OF C90 SUPERCOMPUTER

New System Is Third Cray Research Supercomputer For
Center

EAGAN, Minn., March 23, 1993 -- Cray Research announced
today that General Atomics has ordered a CRAY C98
supercomputing system to be installed at the San Diego
Supercomputer Center in fourth quarter of this year.   The
new CRAY C98 system was unveiled today and is the eight-
processor model in the newly expanded CRAY C90 series,
which now includes systems with one to 16 processors
based on Cray Research's industry-leading CRAY C90
technology, the company said.

"We are very pleased to make Cray Research's newest, most
advanced supercomputer technology available to our users,"
said Dr. Sidney Karin, director of the San Diego
Supercomputer Center.  "Cray Research supercomputing
technology has historically been the most usable in the
industry.   The CRAY C90 is the next-generation of what
we've come to expect from Cray, and we look forward to
making use of the advanced technology for important
engineering and scientific research work."

According to John F. Carlson, Cray Research chairman and
chief executive officer, "The industry-leading performance
of the original CRAY C916 created strong customer demand
for small versions of the system.  We have scaled down our
leading-edge technology into more models that meet the
needs of our broadening customer base, and are looking forward
to installing this system at the San Diego Supercomputer
Center."

Operated by General Atomics, the San Diego Supercomputer
Center is one of four National Science Foundation centers.
The new CRAY C98 supercomputer will be used for a variety
of scientific and engineering applications by more than
3,000 users located at over 100 universities and research
institutions affiliated with the center.   Replacing the
center's CRAY Y-MP system, the new CRAY C98
supercomputer will provide substantially more computing
power than the previous system, as well as twice the
central and solid state storage disk memory, enabling users
to tackle larger problems, or to solve existing problems
faster.

More than 600 software applications programs currently
available on the original 16-processor CRAY C90 (CRAY
C916) and the CRAY Y-MP systems will run without
modification on this new series of systems.  When fully
configured the new CRAY C98 system has a peak system
performance of eight gigaflops.  The new system features the
same one-gigaflops (billion floating point operations per
second) CPU as the CRAY C916 system.

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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