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Subject: Press Release - CRAY - FYI 1
Date: 19 Nov 92 12:48:52 GMT
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Subject: Press Release - CRAY - FYI


Ruth Porter
(508) 264-5637




         DIGITAL ANNOUNCES COOPERATIVE MARKETING PROGRAM FOR

           CRAY Y-MP EL ENTRY-LEVEL SUPERCOMPUTING SYSTEM


MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. -- November 17, 1992 -- Digital Equipment
Corporation, introduced today a new third-party cooperative
marketing initiative in support of the CRAY Y-MP EL entry-level
supercomputing system.  The program formalizes the relationship
between Digital and its complementary service organizations (CSOs),
allowing the companies to facilitate support of applications for
this system and to provide them to customers.
     Two leading supercomputing applications developers, The MacNeal
Schwendler Corp. and Molecular Simulations Inc., were among the
first to become Digital CSOs for this program.  Digital sells,
markets, distributes and services the CRAY Y-MP EL entry-level
supercomputers through a business partnership with Cray Research
Inc.
     "By working up front with our application-developer CSOs, we
can deliver more tightly-integrated solutions to customers," said
Kevin McCoole, applications marketing manager for Digital's Cray
Program Office.  "Along with the high level of application
performance needed for departmental solutions, which is delivered
via the Cray architecture, this integration gives the customer a
distinct competitive advantage."
     The MacNeal Schwendler Corp., a Los Angeles-based supplier of
computer-aided engineering software to the aerospace and automotive
industries, believes the CRAY Y-MP EL system opens the power of
supercomputing to a broad new customer base.
     "Using the CRAY Y-MP EL system, development groups can now cost
effectively run and analyze large and complex modeling applications
within their own departments," said Tom Vorgitch, MSC's corporate
marketing director.  "MSC's participation in this new program is yet
another move forward in our longstanding relationship with Digital,
and another step ahead in meeting the growing analysis needs of our
customers."
     Another CSO to join this program is Burlington, Massachusetts-
based Molecular Simulations Inc. (MSI), a leading supplier of
molecular modeling applications to the pharmaceutical, chemical and
material science industries.
     "Through this program, computational chemists can now bring
Cray resources, which were previously available only through time
sharing, into the facility," said Kirk Bishop, MSI's manager of
strategic relations.  "We believe this represents an opportunity for
reduced `time to solution' at a reduced cost for a substantial
subset of our customer base."
     The CRAY Y-MP EL family of air-cooled processors meets the
needs of complex technical applications that demand high throughput
and heavy use of vector processing.  Typical production environments
include government, science consumer product and manufacturing R&D,
pharmaceutical research, and oil and gas exploration.  With a
starting price of $299,000, the CRAY Y-MP EL system is the price/
performance leader of entry-level supercomputing.
     Digital Equipment Corporation, headquartered in Maynard,
Massachusetts, is the leading worldwide supplier of networked
computer systems, software and services.  Digital pioneered and
leads the industry in interactive, distributed and multivendor
computing.  Digital and its business partners deliver the power
to use the best integrated solutions - from desktop to data center -
in open information environments.
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Note to Editors:  CRAY Y-MP EL is a trademark of Cray Research,
                  Inc.

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