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- Subject: Press Release - CRAY - FYI
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- Ruth Porter
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- DIGITAL ANNOUNCES COOPERATIVE MARKETING PROGRAM FOR
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- CRAY Y-MP EL ENTRY-LEVEL SUPERCOMPUTING SYSTEM
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- 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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- CORP/93/889
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