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CRAY RESEARCH GETS LARGE ORDER FROM FRENCH
ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION 

EAGAN, Minn., April 24, 1995 -- Cray Research, Inc. (NYSE: CYR)
announced today that it has received a large order for multiple
systems from the Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique, Division
de Applications Militaires -- the military research division of
the French Atomic Energy Commission.  The order was received
in first quarter and includes Cray's newest high-end
supercomputer, a CRAY T932 system slated to be installed
later this year at the commission's computer center near Paris. 
Terms were not disclosed.

The CRAY T932 system is the largest configuration in the new
CRAY T90 Series of parallel vector processing (PVP)
supercomputers, which were unveiled earlier this year.  The
CRAY T932 is capable of scaling to 32 processors and a peak
speed of more than 60 billion calculations per second.  The
French Atomic Energy Commission's order is for 24 processors
with upgrade potential of eight additional processors. 

The new Cray equipment will replace existing Cray Research
systems, French Atomic Energy Commission officials said.  

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

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