Cray received order for 128-processor T3E from Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

"Our faculty and student researchers will use the more powerful Cray T3E-1200E system to promote basic and applied information science, including computational science," said Professor Teruo Matsuzawa, director of the Center for Information Science.

"We are proud to be associated with JAIST and to support the world-class research faculty of the Center for Information Science," said Cray Inc. President and CEO Jim Rottsolk. "We view our relationship with JAIST as a true partnership."

The current world record for sustained computer speed, more than one trillion calculations per second (teraflops), was achieved on a Cray T3E system and has been recognised with the prestigious Gordon Bell Prize.

The Japan Advanced Institute Of Science And Technology (JAIST), Hokuriku, Japan, was founded on October 1, 1990 as the first national institute in Japan that consists of graduate schools without undergraduate programs and possesses its own campus and organisation for research and education. JAIST's Center for Information Science supports the computer-oriented activities of all users of the campus computing environment, by administering computer facilities and interconnecting networks.