From: rjones@wsl.dec.com (Russ Jones)
Newsgroups: biz.dec
Subject: DECnews/Digital and Gaussian Announce Joint Parallelization Effort
Date: 18 Nov 92 02:08:58 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation

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                                              Digital Equipment Corporation
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     	 Joseph D. Codispoti
     	 Digital Equipment Corporation
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     	 Dr. David Mosses
     	 Gaussian, Inc.
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            DIGITAL EQUIPMENT AND GAUSSIAN, INC. ANNOUNCE
                    JOINT PARALLELIZATION EFFORT


MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. -- November 17, 1992 -- Digital Equipment 
Corporation and Gaussian, Inc. have begun a joint development effort 
to adapt Gaussian 92 software to Digital's DECmpp 12000 series of 
massively parallel computers. Gaussian 92 is one of the industry's 
leading computational chemistry application programs.        

     Michael Frisch, president of Gaussian said "I initially worked 
on the Gaussian programs at Carnegie-Mellon University, using the 
very first VAX-11/780, which is now in the Boston Computer Museum.  
Fifteen years later, I am very pleased to participate in this joint 
project, which reflects Digital's continuing strong commitment to 
computational chemistry and support for the Gaussian programs".

     Gaussian is the market leader in electronic structure software.
Electronic structure is a distinct type of computational chemistry 
that uses basic laws of quantum mechanics to model and analyze the 
structure and properties of molecular principles.  It is used widely 
throughout the chemical and pharmaceutical industries for drug 
design, environmental chemistry and basic manufacturing.

     "Gaussian software has run on Digital's VAX computers for 
years," said Bill Desimone, marketing manager for Digital's 
Molecular Sciences Applications group.  "Running this software on 
massively parallel computers is a logical and an important next step 
for Digital and for many of its customers."

     "Massively parallel architectures present the next challenge 
for computational chemists because they offer the hope of 
dramatically reduced time-to-solution for the large problems 
chemists are interested in" said Frisch. 

     Digital's DECmpp 12000 Series computers range from 1,024- to
16,384-processor models, and are capable of performing up to 300
million floating-point operations per second (MFLOPS.)  They are
used in applications such as database search, computational
chemistry, automobile design, statistical and financial analysis,
text retrieval, as well as signal, image and seismic processing.

     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:  DECmpp and VAX are trademarks of Digital Equipment 
                  Corporation.

     		  Gaussian 92 is a registered trademark of Gaussian, 
                  Inc.

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