Eden Prairie, Minnesota-based Cray Research Inc has so much ground to make up to get into massively parallel processing that it is casting around for a partner to get it onto the right track. The Wall Street Journal hears that the company is talking to Bolt, Beranek & Newman Inc, Cambridge, Massachusetts, with options ranging from a simple sharing of technology to outright acquisition of Bolt, Beranek by Cray – which would lead to a violent culture clash since Bolt Beranek is a gnomic tecchie company staffed by people more interested in startling breakthroughs than in making money.
