Alliant Computer Systems Corp, Littleton, Massachusetts and its Nippon Alliant offshoot in Tokyo have a $10m order for 20 systems from Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp’s NTT Data Communications Systems Corp: the Alliant FX/40 and FX/80 parallel processing systems will be used by NTT Data to expand the capacity of its computer services communications network by offering high performance computation and visualisation resources for users of the net in the field of scientific and engineering applications.
