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                                                        The Florida SunFlash

           SunPro Partnership with Russian Scientists

SunFLASH Vol 45 #1					      September 1992 
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   	SUNPRO ANNOUNCES NEW SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP WITH 
			RUSSIAN COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

	Russian Team to Contribute Advanced Supercomputer Technology


MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--September 1, 1992--SunPro(TM), the software
development business of Sun Microsystems, Inc., today announced that it
has contracted with a team of 33 highly-skilled software engineers from
Russia as an extension to its core engineering group. The Russian team
will work on enhancements to SunPro commercial software development
products under a six-month, renewable contract. The work will be
conducted in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Novosibirsk under the
direction of Russian supercomputer inventor Dr. Boris Babaian of the
Russian Academy of Sciences.  Dr. Babaian and eight members of the team
are visiting the United States this week to initiate the project.

The agreement is among the first in which Russian scientists have been
employed by a Western firm to develop commercial products for
distribution in key markets including the U.S., Europe and Japan. A
previous agreement between Sun Microsystems Laboratories, Inc. (SMLI)
and Russian scientists focused only on research.

"For SunPro, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to contract with
a complete team of experts led by one of the top computer designers in
the world," said Jon Kannegaard, general manager of SunPro. "We think
this agreement sets a precedent that other research and
development-intensive companies-in many sectors of the American
economy-can emulate."

"Our collaboration with SunPro is a way to promote one of Russia's
natural resources--its people," said Dr. Babaian. "Our scientists are
very familiar with the UNIX(R) operating system, and we're pleased to
have the opportunity to work with the UNIX technology leader."

Three separate projects will be undertaken by the Russian engineers.
Two of these center around SunPro's SPARCompiler(TM) FORTRAN and
SPARCompiler Pascal products, which translate English-like commands
into instructions that a computer can understand. These projects will
be undertaken by Russian teams in Novosibirsk and St. Petersburg. The
third project, to be conducted by the Moscow team, focuses on
SPARCompiler performance optimization, which enables user applications
to run even faster on computers built around the SPARC(R) architecture,
an advanced RISC chip design.

The projects will be overseen by Dr. Babaian, who is headquartered in
Moscow, where he also heads up the newly-formed Moscow Center of SPARC
Technology. Dr. Babaian is one of the most accomplished computer
scientists in the world, having designed the Elbrus-3 supercomputer, a
machine reported to be three times faster than the high-performance
Cray Y-MP(R) supercomputer. The engineers from Russia working with
SunPro are the same team that created the advanced software optimizing
compilers for the Elbrus, and are now bringing this advanced technology
to the U.S.  Dr. Babaian also leads an engineering team that began
working on research projects with Sun Microsystems Laboratories, Inc.
in March 1992.

Established in July 1991, SunPro is a Sun Microsystems, Inc. business.
Headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., SunPro is the worldwide volume
leader in professional software development products for the SPARC and
UNIX platform.

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