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AKZO NOBEL ORDERS SECOND CRAY RESEARCH SUPERCOMPUTER SYSTEM

EAGAN, Minn., Oct. 23, 1995 -- Akzo Nobel has ordered its second Cray
supercomputer system, Cray Research (NYSE:CYR) announced today. A CRAY(R) J90
supercomputer system ordered in the third quarter is slated for installation
in 1995 at Akzo Nobel's Central Research Facilities in Arhem, The
Netherlands. Terms were not disclosed.

Akzo Nobel's computational chemists, among others, will use the system with
Cray Research's UniChem client/server computational chemistry software
package for molecular modeling applications related to new Akzo Nobel
products.

A CRAY EL system installed last year will be used as a file server providing
storage facilities for Akzo Nobel's range of workstations. In addition,
Cray's Network Queuing Environment (NQE) software will network the two
supercomputers to existing workstations. NQE automatically distributes
compute jobs to the most appropriate resource on the heterogeneous networks.

"NQE creates an environment in which batch jobs are easily managed across
heterogeneous UNIX networks," said Mr Herman Dijkman, Information Manager at
Akzo Nobel Central Research.

Akzo Nobel is a leading chemical concern in the Netherlands and a global
leader in selected areas of chemicals, coatings, healthcare products, and
fibers. Akzo Nobel has more than 70,000 employees in more than 50 countries.

Cray Research provides the leading high-performance computing tools and
services to help solve customers' most challenging problems.

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