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CRAY RESEARCH ANNOUNCES FIRST INSTALLATION IN
THAILAND

National Electronics and Computer Technology Center
of Thailand Installs Cray Research Supercomputer

EAGAN, Minn., Nov. 21, 1994 -- The National Electronics and
Computer Technology Center (NECTEC) of Thailand announced
last week that it has installed a CRAY EL98 air-cooled,
compact supercomputer at its High Performance Computing
Center in Bangkok.  The system is the first Cray Research
supercomputer installed in Thailand and will have four central
processing units and 512 megabytes of main memory (soon to
be expanded to one gigabyte).

"We're very pleased to be the first institution in Thailand with
access to the speed and processing power of a Cray Research
supercomputer," said  Dr. Palrash Thajchayapong, NECTEC
Director.  "Support from Cray Research and Thai Equipment &
Telecom has been instrumental in launching NECTEC's High
Performance Computing Center.  The Cray Research system will
support more accurate and faster mathematical modeling for
various projects in science, engineering and social science.  We
expect to promote still other uses in the near future."

The Cray Research system will be used by NECTEC for
computational chemistry, computational physics,
mathematical modeling and computer science.  NECTEC plans to
provide access to the system via Thaisarn, a local academic
computer network that connects a number of universities in
the country and that provides a gateway to the Internet.

NECTEC provides support for research, development and
engineering in universities, government and the private sector;
provides technical services to the private sector in production
development; invests in the development and acquisition of
technology; and disseminates information regarding electronic
and computer technologies and related issues.  

NECTEC has funded some 320 research and development
projects since 1988 and has been a key force in pushing
forward technology development in Thailand.  The organization
was founded in September 1986 as a project under the Thai
Ministry of Science, Technology and Industry and now operates
under the auspices of the country's National Science and
Technology Development Agency, a publicly funded, semi-
autonomous agency.

In conjunction with the installation of the CRAY EL 90 Series
system, Cray Research will conduct workshops for NECTEC
staff on computational chemistry applications using the
UNICHEM software package developed by Cray Research in
collaboration with researchers from major worldwide
chemical companies, as well as on finite element applications. 
Finite element methods are widely used by researchers,
scientists and engineers for supercomputer-based simulations
in such areas as automobile crashworthiness testing, aircraft
and ship design, and civil and chemical engineering.  UNICHEM
is used principally by chemists for molecular modeling to
investigate and develop new pharmaceuticals and materials.

"The delivery of this system to NECTEC extends the reach of
Cray Research's customer base to another new country," said
John F. Carlson.  "Our air-cooled, compact supercomputers have
been instrumental in opening new geographic markets for us
and the installation of this system at NECTEC continues that
trend."

Cray Research provides the leading supercomputing tools and
services to help solve customers' most challenging problems.

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