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                                              Digital Equipment Corporation
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                NEW SOFTWARE, HARDWARE ANNOUNCED FOR
           DIGITAL EQUIPMENT MASSIVELY PARALLEL COMPUTERS

MAYNARD, Mass. -- August 17, 1992 -- New enhancements to software
development tools, a new high speed console, and new, higher density 
parallel disk array systems have been announced by Digital Equipment 
Corporation for the DECmpp 12000 Series of massively parallel 
computers.
     The enhancements designed to help software developers create 
application programs for this series are:

    o  DECmpp FORTRAN V1.1 -- a new release of Digital's
       parallel FORTRAN language compiler which becomes the
       industry's first FORTRAN to feature automatic
       scalarization, permitting massively parallel programs 
       to be developed and tested on conventional workstations;

    o  DECmpp VAST-2 -- a new program that can translate parts
       of conventional FORTRAN 77 programs into DECmpp FORTRAN,
       optimized for use on massively parallel systems.

    o  DECmpp Math Library -- also new, this is an extensible
       store of frequently used mathematical routines that can
       be invoked during program development;

    o  DECmpp Image Processing Library -- this library has
       been expanded to include new data types for use in an
       expanded range of image-processing applications;

    o  DECmpp Parallel Programming Environment -- this
       software development environment now includes an Open
       Software Foundation Motif user interface, link to AVS
       graphical visualization software, along with other
       performance features.

    Also announced was a high performance server console which
will be standard for the DECmpp 12000 Series.  The new DECsystem
5900 features a 40 MHz RISC processor, up to 448 Mbytes of main
memory, and supports FDDI-based fiber optic communications links.
The new configuration is ideally suited for multiple users.
    For the lower cost DECmpp 12000-LC Series, the DECstation
5000 Model 240, was also announced as an upgraded workstation
console.  The Model 240 uses a 40 MHz RISC processor, and
features up to 384 Mbytes of main memory.
      Three new parallel disk arrays were also announced for
DECmpp 12000 Series systems.  These offer double the storage
density of earlier models, with a top capacity of 23 GBytes of
storage

            DIGITAL SOFTWARE GOAL: EXPAND APPLICATIONS

    "Digital's strategy in the massively parallel system market is 
to expand development of application software for the massively 
parallel computer market," says Charles Wilson, director of 
Digital's Massively Parallel Systems Group.
     "By offering increasingly powerful tools, we hope to make
the parallel architecture as transparent as possible to
developers, and thus speed their time to market.  And the greater
the volume of application programs, the faster the market will
grow."      
     "For instance, the scalarization feature of the new FORTRAN
will be a great help to users, particularly those in
universities, who are developing programs for massively parallel
systems but who don't always have ready access to these systems,"
Wilson says. 
     The DECmpp VAST-2 translator also helps application program
developers, by automating some of the steps involved with
creating parallel program code.  For instance, VAST-2 can analyze
a conventional, non-parallel FORTRAN program to seek out
opportunities for parallelism, such as "DO" loops, and can
perform data dependency analysis, reordering of data to avoid
dependencies, and other optimizing operations.
     The new DECmpp Math Library gives program developers access
to more than 900 mathematical subroutines written in the popular
FORTRAN language.
                       OTHER ENHANCEMENTS

    Digital has added support to the DECmpp Image Library for 
floating-point data types, as well as for 32-bit integers.  This
makes it suitable for use in very demanding applications.
     And like the new FORTRAN compiler, the DECmpp Parallel
Programming Environment has also added scalarization capability. 
Further, the newly added support for the Motif graphical user
interface now gives developers a rich, easily accessed windowing
environment with a "look and feel" that's popular in the computer
industry.    
                       PRICE, AVAILABILITY

     The new DECmpp Math Library and DECmpp VAST-2 are priced at
$4,710 and $11,800  respectively.  Both are available
immediately.  The DECmpp Image Processing Library is priced at
$4,710; DECmpp FORTRAN V1.1 at $11,800; and the DECmpp Parallel
Programming Environment at $4,710.  All are available
immediately.
     Prices for 1024-processor DECmpp 12000 systems using the new
DECsystem 5900 front-end console start at under $250,000; for
1024-processor DECmpp 12000-LC Series systems using the DECsystem
5000 Model 240, prices start at under $125,000.
     Prices for the new disk arrays start at under $150,000, for
a 5.8 GByte model.
     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 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, DECstation and DECsystem are registered 
                  trademarks of Digital Equipment Corporation.

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