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CRAY RECEIVES ORDER FOR TWO CRAY J90 SYSTEMS FROM 
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY FOR INSTALLATION AT ALLIEDSIGNAL

EAGAN, Minn., Oct. 17, 1995 -- Cray Research, Inc. (NYSE:CYR)
announced today that it received a third-quarter order for two
CRAY J916 supercomputers from the U.S. Department of Energy
(DoE) for installation in fourth quarter of this year at
AlliedSignal Kansas City Division.  The systems were procured
under competitive bid and will replace older systems from
Cray and Convex.  Terms were not disclosed. 

AlliedSignal Kansas City Division operates a defense
manufacturing plant for the DoE.  One CRAY J90 system will be
dedicated to finite element applications using the popular
ABAQUS software package from Hibbitt, Karlsson & Sorensen,
Inc.; the second will serve as backup for these important
applications and will support other plant applications.  Both
systems will be equipped with Cray's Data Migration Facility
(DMF), which is high-performance hierarchical storage
management software.  According to AlliedSignal officials,
DMF is used to manage more than one terabyte (trillion byte) of
engineering data that is associated with ABAQUS simulation
problems currently run on the existing Cray system. 

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

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