Cray/Media: Mardi Larson, 612/683-3538 Cray/Financial: Brad Allen, 612/683-7395 CRAY RECEIVES ORDER FROM BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM PHARMACEUTICALS EAGAN, Minn., Oct. 23, 1995 -- Cray Research, Inc. (NYSE:CYR) announced today that it has received an order from Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Ridgefield, Conn., for a CRAY J916 low-cost supercomputer to be installed later this year at the company's research and development facility. The Cray solution was selected over a Silicon Graphics, Inc. Power Challenge system, Cray officials said. Terms were not disclosed. Boehringer Ingelheim, headquartered in Germany, is the largest privately held pharmaceutical company in the world. Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a subsidiary of the U.S. corporation also located in Ridgefield. The CRAY J916 supercomputer will be used as a central supercomputing server for molecular modeling applications submitted to the system by about 20 chemists at the Connecticut facility. According to Boehringer Ingelheim officials, the main reason they selected Cray Research was because the Cray solution excelled at the "throughput benchmark," a real-world measure of how supercomputing servers are used in corporations with many users. "Throughput benchmarks involve stacking up multiple concurrent jobs and submitting them to the central server to see how quickly the compute workload is completed and sent back to the end users," said Frank Galvin, manager of systems and operations at Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. "This is how we will use the CRAY J916 system in our real operating environment, and the system proved it can do this well in our rigorous benchmark tests." Cray officials said the CRAY J90 series systems, starting at $250,000 (U.S. list price), are compact, air-cooled versions of high-end Cray supercomputers and possess the same open systems operating environments that support thousands of users submitting jobs throughout an enterprise. Cray Research provides the leading high-performance computing tools and services to help solve customers' most challenging problems. ###