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          DIGITAL SHOWCASES NEW HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING
                SOLUTIONS AT SUPERCOMPUTING '92 SHOW


      ... Provides INTERNET access for conference attendees ...


MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. -- November 17, 1992 -- At the IEEE Supercomputing 
'92 conference, here, Digital Equipment Corporation is introducing a 
cooperative marketing program to support entry-level supercomputing,  
and demonstrating applications for its high-performance computing 
(HPC) platforms in Booth 102.  The company is also providing INTERNET 
access for show attendees via Digital terminals, workstations and 
servers.   

     "Digital's commitment to supercomputing and the HPC market dates
back 30 years, and has helped to shape our current strategy," said
William Demmer, Digital's vice president of Alpha and VAX systems 
group.  "We provide customers with the most complete and integrated
solutions, and the best price/performance of HPC systems in the
industry." 

     Digital's HPC strategy harnesses power from the industry's most
prominent technologies -- superscalar RISC processing, vector 
processing, and massively parallel processing -- then combines 
hardware with applications software and "middleware" to provide 
multi-platform support in an open, integrated environment.  This 
environment provides flexibility, portability, and transparent user 
access -- regardless of the HPC applications and platforms involved 
-- for traditional supercomputing sites, as well as HPC users in 
mainstream commercial organizations.  

DIGITAL HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING ANNOUNCEMENTS 

     New HPC offerings are strengthening Digital's leading role in 
the supercomputing industry and are making its HPC solutions even 
more affordable and accessible for mainstream users.  These 
announcements include:   
  
     o  SUPERCOMPUTING APPLICATIONS COOPERATIVE MARKETING PROGRAM 
        (November 17) -- At the show, Digital is introducing a 
        cooperative marketing program to facilitate support for 
        applications for the CRAY Y-MP EL system.  Two leading 
        supercomputing application developers have already signed on.

     	Digital sells, markets, distributes and services the CRAY 
        Y-MP EL supercomputers based on a business partnership with 
        Cray Research announced earlier this year.

     o  ALPHA AXP SYSTEMS (November 10) -- Digital's Alpha AXP 
        computing is a complete set of systems, software, 
        applications and services that provides a universal platform 
        enabling unlimited open computing  possibilities.  The 
        first-generation of Alpha AXP systems includes  seven 
        workstation and server configurations ranging from desktop  
        to mainframe-class systems.  They run both Open VMS AXP, 
        Digital's industry-standard operating environment, and DEC 
        OSF/1 AXP, a standards-compliant UNIX operating environment.
  
     	Alpha AXP systems complement Digital's DECmpp and CRAY Y-MP 
        EL offerings to provide the widest range of HPC solutions in 
        the industry, from the datacenter down to the desktop.  

     	These systems take advantage of the thousands of applications 
        and layered software products developed over the years for 
        Digital's computing solutions.  Extensive application 
        development and migration programs protect customer 
        investment, provide flexible choice and  ease migration to 
        Alpha AXP regardless of the customer's preferred environment. 
        (See Alpha AXP press materials for more information.)   

     o  DECmpp SOFTWARE (October 26) -- The PARASPHERE Software 
        Environment is Digital's integrated approach to satisfy 
        customer's comprehensive software requirements for DECmpp 
        systems.  The package includes  a high-performance Fortran 
        compiler and the new DECmpp Digital  Parallel Programming 
        Environment (which features DEC FUSE, Digital's UNIX-based 
        CASE development toolkit) to enhance application development 
        capabilities.  

     o  DECmpp 12000/Sx SYSTEM MODEL 200 (October 26) -- DECmpp 
        12000/Sx Model 200 systems range from 1,024 to 16,384 
        processors and can operate from 150 to 2400 MFLOPS (Millions 
        of Floating Point Operations per Second).  They are more than 
        four times faster than the earlier Model 100 systems.

     o  DECmpp 12000/Mx SYSTEM MODEL 100 (September 29) -- The DECmpp 
        12000/Mx system Model 100 is Digital's first MIMD (multiple-
     	instruction, multiple-data) system.  It is available in two 
        configurations with either 16 or 32 Intel i860 processors, 
        and 16 or 32 MBytes of memory per processor.  It operates 
        from 960 to 1920 MFLOPS, and will stimulate leading-edge 
        application development.   
   

DIGITAL DEMONSTRATIONS AT SUPERCOMPUTING '92

     Digital will demonstrate the following HPC solutions at its 
booth: high-performance graphics, advanced molecular simulation, 
seismic modeling, financial modeling, medical imaging, image 
processing (including enhancement of images generated from data 
transmitted by the Hubble space telescope), visualization, and radar 
tracking. Digital will also show distributed computing in cooperation 
with Cray Research Inc.  A CRAY Y-MP EL supercomputer in the Digital
booth will be linked using FDDI over SCInet (the show's network
backbone) to a CRAY Y-MP EL supercomputer and a CRAY Y-MP 2E system
in the Cray Research booth. 

INTERNET ACCESS 

     Digital's Minneapolis office contributed over 40 terminals,
workstations, and corresponding servers to provide access to the
worldwide INTERNET network.  Supercomputing '92 attendees whose
organizations have E-mail systems linked to INTERNET will be able
to use this facility to stay in touch with their offices during the
show via Digital desktop devices that are located in rooms 205 C-D
at the Minneapolis Convention Center. 

     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. 

                                 ####

Note to Editors:  Alpha, Alpha AXP, DEC FUSE, DECmpp, OpenVMS, 
                  PARASPHERE, and VAX are trademarks of Digital 
                  Equipment Corporation.

     		  CRAY Y-MP EL is a trademark of Cray Research Inc.

     		  UNIX is a trademark of UNIX System Laboratories, 
                  Inc. 

     		  OSF/1 is a trademark of the Open Software 
                  Foundation.

     		  Paragon and Intel i860 are trademarks of Intel 
                  Corporation.   

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