Cray/Media:        Mardi Larson, at SunWorld June 14 -16 
                   (booth #643)
                   After SunWorld, 612/683-3538

Cray/Financial:    Bill Gacki, 612/683-7372 

CRAY RESEARCH ANNOUNCES AVAILABILITY OF ITS
FORTRAN 90 PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENT FOR SPARC
PLATFORMS

The First Complete Native Fortran 90 Compiler Strives
for Industry Standard

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., June 14, 1994 -- At the SunWorld 94
conference held here this week, Cray Research, Inc. today
announced that the Cray Fortran 90 (CF90) Programming
Environment will be available this August on SPARC systems
running the Solaris 2.3 operating environment -- including Sun
workstations and the CRAY SUPERSERVER 6400 systems.  The
CF90 compiler, recognized as the first full, native
implementation of the Fortran 90 standard, was made available
for Cray Research supercomputers in fourth quarter of 1993. 

The SPARC/Solaris version of the company's Fortran 90
Programming Environment will be available through CraySoft,
Cray Research's initiative aimed at marketing and distributing
high-performance Cray-engineered software on non-Cray
platforms.  The company said that CraySoft will also make the
Fortran 90 product available on additional platforms in the
future.   

"Our goal is for the CF90 Programming Environment to become
an industry standard," said Irene Qualters, Cray Research
senior vice president, software.  "In broadening the platforms
for CF90, we make the same high-performance programming
and compiling environment developed for the supercomputer
world available on PCs, workstations and servers." 

She noted that the environment for CF90 on Cray Research
systems is the same as on the workstation and includes
industry-leading automatic parallelization and advanced scalar
optimization; expert systems for improved code performance;
and sophisticated debuggers and browsers to edit Fortran 90
source code, as well as trace code changes. 

Qualters said that Cray Research has an agreement with Absoft
Corporation for that company to develop, market and distribute
versions of the CF90 compiler for high-performance desktop
computers like PCs based on Intel486 and Pentium processors,
as well as the new PowerPC-based Macintoshes.   According to
Absoft officials, the compiler will be available on PowerPC
Macintoshes by the end of this year; support for other
platforms will follow.   In addition, Cray has an agreement
with Visual Numerics, Inc. for it to market and distribute the
CraySoft Fortran 90 Programming Environment for SPARC and
to develop the industry leading IMSL Fortran 90 MP libraries to
interoperate with the CraySoft Fortran 90 product.  Visual
Numerics also announced this week at SunWorld 94 that its
Fortran 90 version of the numerical library supporting the
CraySoft Fortran 90 product will be available August.  

"Combined with CraySoft efforts, these important joint
activities with Absoft and Visual Numerics will assist in
standardizing the CF90 Programming Environment as well,"
Qualters said. 

The CraySoft Fortran 90 Programming Environment is priced
according to the number of users.  Domestic pricing starts at
$1,295 for a single user network license.  Through the end of
September, Craysoft is offering U.S. customers a promotional
price of $995  for a single user network license.  
  
CraySoft products are available through VARs and distributors
like Visual Numerics, Cray Research sales offices worldwide
and Cray Research's new high-performance hotline, 1-800-
BUY-CRAY, as well as e-mail at craysoft@cray.com. 

Fortran 90 is the next generation of Fortran, the most widely
used programming language for scientific and technical
computing. 

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

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