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CANADAIR BECOMES FIRST CANADIAN AEROSPACE
COMPANY TO ORDER NEW CRAY J916 SUPERCOMPUTER

EAGAN, Minn., Dec. 20, 1994 -- Cray Research, Inc. (NYSE:CYR)
announced today that Canadair, a division of aerospace giant
Bombardier Inc., has ordered a CRAY J916 supercomputer.  This
marks the second CRAY J916 system sale to the business and
commuter aircraft industry.  Cray Research announced last
week that light aircraft manufacturer Raytheon Aircraft
Company, Wichita, Kansas, also recently ordered a CRAY J916
supercomputer for aircraft design applications.   Canadair will
install their system in mid-1995 at its headquarters in Dorval,
a suburb of Montreal in Quebec, Canada.

Canadair will use the CRAY J916 supercomputer to run
computer simulations to design and analyze new aircraft
configurations.  Specifically, Canadair's Advanced
Aerodynamics Department will use the CRAY J916
supercomputer to run Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
analysis on new aircraft designs.  The company designs and
manufactures business jets as well as small and mid-size
commuter airplanes.

"Things that took days before we can run overnight and do so
with more detail on the Cray," said John P. Holding, executive
vice president of Bombardier Aerospace Group, North America.
"So instead of just looking at the wing of a proposed aircraft
design, we can look at the dynamics of the lift, the flaps, even
the whole aircraft in a single simulation and do so with a finer
grid detail."

Holding says that the new Cray Research system will lower the
cost of developing new aircraft designs while enabling
engineers to test more design solutions.  "We can test more
options using computer simulations on the CRAY J916.  Instead
of going into wind tunnel testing with ten different models, we
can look at all of those models and more.  When we get to wind
tunnel testing, we'll be closer to the final design."

Cray Research entered the aerospace industry with sales to
manufacturers of large commercial aircraft.  In 1980, The
Boeing Company became the first aerospace organization to
acquire a Cray Research supercomputer.  NASA followed in
1981.   Aerospace application software packages traditionally
run on large Cray Research supercomputers operate without
modification on Cray Research compact supercomputers such
as the CRAY J916 system.

"We developed Cray Research compact supercomputers to bring
our industry-leading computing capability to smaller
companies and divisions of companies.  That strategy has
proved very successful for us and for customers like Canadair
and Raytheon Aircraft," said John Carlson, chairman and CEO.  

Canadair has installed an interim CRAY EL98 compact
supercomputer until the CRAY J916 system is installed in the
spring of 1995.  According to Canadair Vice President John
Holding, the Cray Research compact supercomputer replaces a
Convex C220 system.  Canadair ordered a four processor CRAY
J916 system, which will provide the company with more
processing power and memory than the Convex system.

The CRAY J916, introduced by Cray Research in September and
scheduled to begin shipping early next year, is the company's
newest generation compact, air-cooled supercomputer system. 
It is priced from $225,000 (U.S. list price).

The new CRAY J916 supercomputers are scalable, UNIX-based
servers with four to 16 processors. The CRAY J916
supercomputer is the third generation of Cray Research
systems priced beginning well under $1 million.  The company
has recorded more than 250 orders for these low-cost systems
since entering the market in late 1991.

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

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