Knarl@cup.portal.com (09/24/88)
**************************************** ** For Your Information ** ** ** ** Control Data - New ETA contracts ** **************************************** Control Data's ETA System received six contracts totalling $11 million for air-cooled ETA 10 supercomputers to be installed at customer sites around the world in the third and fourth quarters of 1988. The new customers are: . Veritas Seismic, Ltd., a petroleum exploration company located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. . The Australian Bureau of Meteorology in Melbourne, one of the three World Meteorological Organization (WMO) centers and the forecasting unit of Australia. . Management Unit of Mathematical Model (MUMM) in Brussels, Belgium. MUMM will use the ETA 10-P to model pollution effects in the North Sea and the estuarium of the Scheldt River. . ENR, a computer center for three large research institutes in the Netherlands. Additionally, ENR provides time-sharing services to Dutch universities and industry. . NASA Lyndon Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. . Academica Seneca, in Taiwan, which is a government-owned research institute specializing in physics, molecular science and earth science research among many other disciplines. Control Data is pleased at the geographic scope and wide range of companies and institutions which are buying ETA 10 technology as the answer to their supercomputing requirement . The ETA 10 supercomputer line stretches from the air-cooled Model P up to the liquid-cooled Model G. The ETA 10-P supercomputer is the first supercomputer to be priced in a basic package in the United States for less than on million dollars. The 44 configurations of the ETA 10 supercomputer family span a 27.1 performance range.