Cray Research Inc reports seven advance orders for its forthcoming parallel vector supercomputer code-named Triton, including the one already announced from the US Los Alamos National Laboratory; the first system, a four-processor model, has already been installed and accepted at one of the customer sites. Cray also reported that Rosgidromet, the Russian Federal Service for Hydrometerology & Environmental Monitoring in Moscow ordered two Cray supercomputers valued at $13 to $16m.
