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FRENCH ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION ORDERS CRAY T3D
SYSTEM

EAGAN, Minn., Oct.  21, 1993 -- Cray Research, Inc. (NYSE:CYR)
announced today that the Commissariat a L'Energie Atomique
(CEA), Division des Applications Militaires -- the French
Atomic Energy Commission -- has ordered a CRAY T3D
massively parallel processing system.  

CEA ordered a CRAY T3D MC128-2, a 128-processor system
that will closely coupled with a CRAY M92 system already on
site at CEA/Limeil.  The CRAY T3D system will be used for
research in fundamental and laser physics, and for
electrodynamic and aerodynamic studies.

The system is scheduled to be installed in fourth-quarter 1993
at CEA's Centre d'Etudes de Limeil-Valenton, near Paris. Terms
were not disclosed.  This is one of the nine initial orders
referred to in the Sept. 27 CRAY T3D product announcement.  

"Cray Research has provided a number of CEA centers with
supercomputing resources for mission-critical research
applications," said John F.  Carlson, Cray Research chairman
and CEO.  "We are pleased to deliver this next generation of
supercomputing power to CEA."

Including entry level supercomputers, Cray Research has more
than 449 systems installed worldwide, including 41 in France.

Cray Research creates the most powerful, highest-quality
computational tools for solving the world's most challenging
scientific and industrial problems.

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