Cray Research Inc has signed a collaborative technology agreement with Computational Dynamics Ltd of London to improve the performance of the STAR-CD computational thermofluidics package for applications the aerospace, automotive and chemical industries on Cray systems: as part of the agreement, a Cray EL98 minisupercomputer was installed at Computational Dynamics facilities earlier this year and will be used for software engineering, including further parallelisation of STAR-CD for the Cray T3D.