- The Supercomputing & Visualisation Unit was set up at Computer Centre to support and promote High Performance Computing on campus.
- NUS installed the first Cray Vector Supercomputer (Cray J90) in the region on campus (2.4Gflops). (Gflops – Billions of floating-points operation per second).
- NUS set up the Visualisation Laboratory at the Computer Centre to provide high-end scientific visualisation resources to support research activities on campus. The Laboratory was equipped with the state-of-the-art SGI Onyx visualisation system. An MOU was signed by NUS and SGI to promote high-end visualisation technology on campus.