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     	    CANADIAN NETWORK FOR SPACE RESEARCH ACQUIRES FIRST 
                 	68040-based MYRIAS COMPUTER

Thursday, September 13, 1990 ... Myrias Corporation today delivered the first
Myrias SPS-3, its latest high-performance parallel system, to the Canadian
Network for Space Research (CNSR).  Acquired with CNSR funds, this SPS-3
contains 32 Motorola 68040 microprocessors. This is the first delivery of a
commercial product that incorporates 68040-microprocessor technology.

Among several Networks of Centers of Excellence funded by the
Federal Government, the Canadian Network for Space Research consists 
of seven private companies, five university-based research groups, and 
two government laboratories.  The University of Alberta Space Physics Group, 
part of the CNSR, will be operating the system for the center.

The Myrias SPS-3 computer will assist the researchers in their ongoing
study of the acceleration of ionized particles in deep space, responsible for
such natural phenomena as the northern lights.  A practical consequence of 
these studies will be a better understanding of the damaging effects these
solar-terrestrial interactions have on man-made systems such as operational
satellites and large-scale power grids at high latitudes.

The SPS-3 parallel computer is well-suited to modelling the space plasma
environment.  This was demonstrated last December when Myrias ran the largest
known particle-in-cell simulation, consisting of 22 million particles on a 
4096x4096 grid, on a 1024-processor SPS-2, an earlier version of the Myrias
parallel computer.

Myrias and University researchers look forward to a close working relationship,
together pushing the boundaries of parallel processing and penetrating 
the unknowns of the space environment.

Myrias develops and manufactures high-performance parallel computing systems.