Cray/Media:      Frank Parisi, 612/683-7130
Cray/Financial:  Brad Allen, 612/683-7395

CRAY ANNOUNCES FIRST SUPERCOMPUTER ORDER FROM
RUSSIA

EAGAN, Minn., Jan. 11, 1995 -- Rosgidromet, the Russian
Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental
Monitoring, Moscow, has ordered two Cray Research
supercomputers, Cray Research (NYSE:CYR) announced today. 
Rosgidromet and Cray have signed the contract, which includes
the supercomputers, third-party equipment and software, as
well as the construction of a dedicated computer room to house
the systems and related equipment, the two organizations said. 
The Cray systems are scheduled for installation in mid-1995. 
Terms were not disclosed.  

U.S. Vice President Gore and Russian Prime Minister
Chernomyrdin approved the plan of the joint U.S.-Russian
modernization for environmental monitoring and earth sciences
in Russia.  The Cray supercomputers are a key element of this
plan.  

"This effort has been under way for about 18 months, and I
want to thank the U.S. Government and the Russian Government
for sticking with the project," said Robert H. Ewald, Cray
Research president and chief operating officer.  "The direct
result will sharply improve forecasts and environmental
monitoring -- information that benefits us all." 

Ewald expressed hope that with the Cray Research
supercomputers Rosgidromet will significantly improve its
weather models, providing more accurate weather predictions
to the citizens of Russia.  This can help improve agricultural
productivity and can save lives and protect property in severe
weather, he said.  

"We believe that the Cray systems will also enable
Rosgidromet to conduct extensive climatic and environmental
monitoring research programs, which will provide the Russian
society and the Government with a much more accurate picture
of the real level of the ecological problems in that country. 
More importantly, though, the Cray supercomputers will be
used to focus on finding ways to solve these important
problems using the most modern computational tools," Ewald
noted.  

He continued, "Rosgidromet plays a key role in the global
weather forecasting community, and we are very pleased to see
Russia receive computational equipment similar to its peers in
the World Meteorological Organization."
 
Cray Research leads the global weather forecasting
marketplace with about 80 percent of the installations for
supercomputer-based weather forecasting centers.  To date,
more than 40 Cray systems are installed in 14 countries for
weather forecasting and environmental research.  New
geographical regions Cray Research has entered in the past few
years include Brazil, China, Northern Ireland, Singapore, South
Africa, Taiwan, Thailand, and several areas of Eastern Europe. 
Customers in these regions are from the industrial,
government, academic, and weather forecasting marketplace.   

Cray Research provides the leading supercomputing tools and
services to help solve customers' most challenging problems.

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