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CRAY RESEARCH REPORTS MORE THAN 100 ORDERS
YEAR-TO-DATE FOR AIR-COOLED COMPACT
SUPERCOMPUTERS

Orders Are For Current CRAY EL90 Systems, Newest-
Generation CRAY J916 Supercomputers

EAGAN, Minn., Nov. 2, 1994 -- Cray Research, Inc. (NYSE:CYR),
announced today that year-to-date it has received more than
100 orders for the company's air-cooled, compact
supercomputers.  This order rate reflects the growing demand
for lower cost supercomputer systems which excel at
compute-intensive scientific and technical applications, the
company said.  These orders are for the current CRAY EL90
systems and the newly unveiled CRAY J916 supercomputer,
which begin at prices ranging from $150,000 to $250,000
(U.S.), the company said. 

Recent orders for the compact systems were from industrial
and commercial firms, government organizations and
universities in Europe, Japan, Mexico, Canada and the U.S.  The
compact supercomputers will be used for transportation
research, automotive and aerospace design, chemistry and
physics research, and geophysical and environmental modeling.

Of the more than 100 system orders, one-third are from new-
to-Cray customers.  Among first-time Cray Research
customers are Mexico's transportation research arm, the
Instituto Mexicano del Transporte (IMT), which will soon
install a CRAY EL90 at its newly built Center for Advanced
Computing in Sanfandila, Queretaro, Mexico.  The Cray Research
supercomputer will be used by transportation engineers to
perform data analysis and computer simulations to model
complex aspects of the transportation infrastructure
throughout Mexico.  This marks the second order for a Cray
Research supercomputer from Mexico. 

In mid September, Italian environmental laboratory
Osservatorio Geofisico Sperimentale (OGS) installed a CRAY
EL90 system at its location in Trieste, Italy.  The Cray
Research supercomputer is linked to existing computer
systems via a local area network and will be used for various
compute-intensive jobs in the areas of geophysics,
environmental and oceanological research, including fossil fuel
reservoir modeling and ocean and demographic simulation.

Another first-time Cray Research customer, Extend Seismic
Processing, New Orleans, has ordered a CRAY J916 system that
when installed next year will replace a CRAY EL90 system
installed this month.   The company will use the compact
supercomputer system to process seismic data and create
three-dimensional computer models reflecting the size and
shape of oil reservoirs for improved drilling and extraction. 
Modeling the reservoir helps exploration companies select
drilling sites that will cost-effectively extract the most oil
and minimize ecological impacts on the surrounding area.  

Three compact Cray Research supercomputers were ordered by
worldwide automotive leaders in the U.S., France and Japan.  
Additional orders were from the National Center for
Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado, the Naval
Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) in Dahlgren, Virginia; and
Constructions Navales et Industrielles de Mediterrannee (CNIM)
in France.  University orders included the University of
Bordeaux in France, the Tokyo Institute of Technology and Nihon
University in Japan, and Wayne State University in Michigan. 

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

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