ACRI and Cray Research Soft
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ACRI AND CRAY RESEARCH ANNOUNCE SOFTWARE
DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT FOR PARALLEL COMPUTER
SYSTEMS

EAGAN, Minn., April 26, 1993 -- Advanced Computer
Research International S.A. (ACRI), Paris, and Cray
Research, Inc. (NYSE:CYR) today announced an agreement to
develop Fortran-90 compilers and software applications for
use on parallel computer systems.

Under the agreement, Belgian-based ACSET, which develops
compilers for ACRI, will use Cray Research's advanced
Fortran-90 front-end technology to create and market
standard, fully Cray-compatible compilers for ACRI and
other European computer manufacturers.  Cray Research will
assume an equity position in ACSET.

ACRI and Cray Research will also collaborate to port and
optimize applications codes on both firms' parallel
computer systems.

"This first investment in a European enterprise
demonstrates Cray Research's intent to forge European
alliances that reflect the importance of the European
supercomputing market and the existing skills of companies
based in that market," said Robert Levy, Cray Research's
vice president, European sales and development.

Jacques Stern, ACRI's Chairman, adds that this agreement
recognizes the high value of ACRI's team and present
achievements; it will facilitate the introduction and
utilization of ACRI systems in the sophisticated high
peformance computing market.

ACRI was founded in 1989 by Jacques Stern to develop a
new generation of European high-performance computer
systems for the scientific, technical and engineering
markets.  An international team of experienced engineers
has been built up in Lyon to design and bring to market a
family of state-of-the-art parallel systems with the
highest price/performance ratio.

ACSET was founded in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, on ACRI's
initiative, to develop and market compilers for parallel
computers, along with parallelization and optimization
software engineering tools.  A highly skilled group of
compiler and software engineering tools experts from the
former Philips Research Center form the kernel of ACSET's
staff.

Cray Research creates the most powerful, highest-quality
computational tools for solving the world's most
challenging scientific and industrial problems.