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CRAY RESEARCH, COMPUTATIONAL DYNAMICS
COLLABORATE TO ENHANCE PERFORMANCE OF KEY CFD
PROGRAM FOR CRAY RESEARCH'S INDUSTRIAL USERS 
 
LONDON, England, Nov. 24, 1993 -- Cray Research, Inc.
announced today at the annual STAR-CD User Conference held
here that it has signed a collaborative technology agreement
with London-based Computational Dynamics Limited to further
improve the performance of STAR-CD on Cray Research
systems.  

STAR-CD, a software package for computational thermofluids
applications, is developed and supported by Computational
Dynamics.  STAR-CD is popular among users in the aerospace,
automotive, chemical and other commercial industries.  

As part of the agreement, a CRAY EL98 supercomputing system
was installed at Computational Dynamics facilities earlier
this year and will be used for software engineering, including
further parallelization of STAR-CD for the CRAY T3D system,
Cray Research's massively parallel processing system.  

"We are very pleased to continue to work with Cray in
improving the performance of STAR-CD on both vector and
parallel systems," said Prof. David Gosman, director of
Computational Dynamics.  "Our users across many industries
and application areas have a need to run very large problems in
the shortest time possible; the CRAY EL98 system will assist
us in providing fast and efficient versions of STAR-CD to our
customer."

According to Dean Hammond, Cray Research director of
marketing for the automotive and aerospace industries, the
enhanced performance of STAR-CD on Cray Research
supercomputing systems will bring faster time to solutions
for users' current STAR-CD problems, or allow them to conduct
more complex calculations. 
 
"We have had a close relationship with Computational
Dynamics for many years and our users have benefitted from
that through continually improved STAR-CD performance on our
platforms.  Further benefits will continue to be delivered
through new features in the software package and the new
parallelized version of STAR-CD," said Hammond. "This
collaborative technology agreement will strengthen our
relationship even further to help us extend our STAR-CD
performance advantage in the aerospace and automotive
industries."
 
STAR-CD has been ported to the Cray Research supercomputing
environment for many years and is licensed at Cray Research
customer sites worldwide, primarily aerospace and automotive
organizations in Europe, U.S. and Japan. 

Also as part of the agreement, throughout 1994 Computational
Dynamics and Cray Research will work together on state-of-
the-art customer problems.  Details from these projects will
be made available throughout next year, the companies'
officials said.   Additional terms of the agreement were not
disclosed.

STAR-CD is one of more than 50 CFD codes that operate at
industry-leading performance on Cray Research systems, said
Hammond.  These CFD codes are used for a variety of
automotive and aerospace applications ranging from
aerodynamic design of an automobile or airplane, to plastic
injection molding of an automotive dash board or any other
plastic part.  

"This collaborative agreement shows Cray Research's
commitment to providing the best possible applications
solutions for our industrial customers," said Hammond.  

Hammond noted that nearly every major automotive and
aerospace company in the world uses Cray Research
supercomputer simulation to reduce the number of expensive
prototypes of cars, airplanes, and vehicle components such as
engines, in order to reduce design cycles.  The automotive
industry, for example, has an aggressive goal to reduce the
design cycle from more than five years to less than three
years.   

Including Cray Research's entry-level systems, the company
has more than 450 systems installed worldwide.  

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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