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FOUR NEW UNIVERSITY CUSTOMERS ORDER CRAY
RESEARCH DEPARTMENTAL SUPERCOMPUTING SYSTEMS
IN SECOND QUARTER 

First Cray Research System In Louisiana Goes to
Tulane

EAGAN, Minn., July 27, 1994 -- Cray Research, Inc. (NYSE:CYR)
today announced orders for four CRAY EL90 departmental
supercomputing systems from new university customers in the
U.S., France and Japan.

The second-quarter orders were from: Tulane University, New
Orleans; the Hiroshima Institute of Technology in Hiroshima,
Japan; and ENSMA Poitiers and the University of Marne la
Vallee, both in France.  Cray's compact, air-cooled
departmental supercomputing systems are fully compatible
with larger Cray systems.  More than 60 of these systems have
been installed at universities throughout the world.

"The CRAY EL90 systems are especially well suited for
university departments because they fall within the range of
departmental budgets yet have the same functionality as our
larger systems, the same suite of applications, easy-to-use
programming environments and powerful UNIX operating
system," said Eric Pitcher, senior director of university
marketing for Cray Research.  "We are very pleased to offer a
system that makes supercomputing more accessible throughout
academia."

Tulane University's Biomedical Engineering Department, which
ordered and has installed its CRAY EL90 system for use in
medical research projects, is a good example of how these
departmental supercomputing systems are used in the
university world, said Pitcher.  Biomedical engineers and
graduate students at Tulane will use the supercomputer to do
computer modeling of human heart tissue to simulate heart
diseases and possible treatments.  The supercomputer also
will be used to engineer and model new materials and designs
for artificial joints.

"Tulane's Biomedical Engineering Department houses some of
the world's top medical researchers.  We were very excited to
learn that Cray Research offers affordable systems that are
scaled-down versions of their high-end technology," said Dr.
Andrew E. Pollard, assistant professor of biomedical
engineering at Tulane.  "Our main objective in acquiring our
own system was to obtain a fast local computer that was
compatible with the larger supercomputers at supercomputer
centers.  Most centers have multiple Cray machines and our
CRAY EL90 system is completely compatible with the larger
Cray Research systems," he said.

Pollard noted that Tulane's CRAY EL90 system is the first Cray
Research system installed in Louisiana.

List pricing for the CRAY EL90 series begins at $150,000 in the
U.S.  The series includes the CRAY EL94 "deskside"
supercomputing system, which holds up to four processors and
512 megabytes (million bytes) of central memory, and the
CRAY EL98 system, with up to eight processors and 4096
megabytes of memory.

There are 511 Cray Research supercomputers installed
worldwide, of which more than 180 are compact, air-cooled
supercomputing systems like those ordered by these
universities.   

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