newsbytes@clarinet.com (02/04/90)
TOKYO, JAPAN, 1990 JAN 30 (NB) -- Daihatsu Motor has decided to buy a supercomputer from Cray. The machine is 500 mega FLOPS (floating point operations per second), Cray Y-MP2/1 which performs three times faster than IBM 3090, the machine currently used by Daihatsu. With this deal, Cray has exported a total of 22 machines to Japan; Dihatsu is the sixth firm in the automobile industry, following the purchase of two machines each by Toyota and Nissan and one machine each by Mitsubishi, Honda and Matsuda. The $5 million machine is slated to be introduced in Daihatsu's headquarters located in Daihatsu-cho, Ikeda-shi, Osaka in June of this year. Cray has the lead among supercomputers for the automobile industry and is expecting to sell other machines to other car makers, such as Suzuki Motor. (Naoyuki Yazawa/19900201)