Published by the MIT News Office at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass.

DEC to Give VAX 9000

NEW AGREEMENT
DEC to Provide VAX 9000

Digital Equipment Corporation has announced that, in conjunction with a 
research agreement, it will provide a $3.8 million VAX 9000 Model 420VP 
computer with vector processors to MIT. The system will include disk 
storage, equipment for networking connectivity, version 4.2 of Digital's 
ULTRIX operating system, and several layered software products. 

"We are extremely pleased with this new research agreement from Digital, 
which will help maintain MIT's leadership position at the forefront of 
distributed computing and information processing research," said 
Professor James D. Bruce, vice president for Information Systems at MIT.

In addition to distributed computing research, MIT will use the VAX 9000 
system for a variety of scientific applications, ranging from computer 
modeling in the design of ship hulls and other ocean engineering systems 
to economic research, including the development of economic models using 
large databases, such as the federal census. MIT will house the VAX 9000 
system in its Central Data Center and use it as a compute server in its 
Athena Computer Environment.

Digital's president, Kenneth H. Olsen, said the company "is proud of its 
many associations with MIT over the years. This research agreement is 
both a measure of our confidence in MIT as an institution and an 
investment in the future technological competitiveness of its 
graduates," he said.

The research agreement extends the historical ties between Digital and 
MIT, which began shortly after Digital was founded. The company and the 
university have cooperated on a number of important research efforts in 
computing, including Project Athena and the X-Windows Consortium.

Digital Equipment Corporation, headquartered in Maynard, is the leading 
worldwide supplier of networked computer systems and services.