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Subject: Press Release - Gaussian - fyi



         Joseph D. Codispoti
         Digital Equipment Corporation
         (508) 493-6767

         Dr. David Mosses
         Gaussian, Inc.
         (412) 621-2050



            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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