Cray/Media:      Steve Conway, 612/683-7133
Cray/Financial:  Bill Gacki, 612/683-7372
CEI:             Hugh Patrick, 919/481-4301

CRAY RESEARCH SPINS OFF COMPUTATIONAL ENGINEERING
INTERNATIONAL

New Firm Will Develop, Market, Support Engineering Software

EAGAN, Minn., Feb. 22, 1994 -- Cray Research, Inc. (NYSE:CYR)
today announced the spinoff of its popular MPGS engineering
post-processing software package.  A new, independent
company, Computational Engineering International, Inc. (CEI),
has been formed by former Cray Research employees to
develop, support and expand the market for this technology,
which to date has been available only to Cray Research
supercomputer customers.  

Cray Research will have a 30 percent equity interest in CEI and
will continue to market the software package to its own
customers under a licensing agreement with CEI.  CEI, to be
based in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, will continue
development and product support for all customers while
directing its marketing and sales efforts toward the
workstation market.

The software, to be marketed by CEI under the new name
EnSight (a contraction of "Engineering Insight"), is a
distributed engineering post-processing package used around
the world by engineers and scientists to display and
manipulate the results of large computational analyses.  

"The latest version of the software does not require users to
have access to a supercomputer," said Derek Robb, Cray
Research vice president, marketing.  "As a result, the potential
market for EnSight now includes nearly all engineering
workstation users, as well as users of Cray Research
supercomputers.  CEI will be positioned to take advantage of
this potential."

"The distributed nature of EnSight provides a unique and
flexible environment for engineering post-processing," said
Anders Grimsrud, the software's principal author.  Dr.
Grimsrud will head the product development and support
division of the new company, which will be staffed primarily
by former members of Cray's MPGS development group. 
"Current customers have found the software to be an excellent
post-processing tool for all types of finite element modeling,
including structural analysis, fluid dynamics,
electromagnetics, injection molding and thermodyamics," he
added.

"EnSight is already in use at nearly all major automotive
companies around the world, as well as at several national
laboratories and major universities," according to Tom
Palmer, CEI's director of marketing and sales. "CEI will make
EnSight, which has been refined over the past six years in the
demanding world of supercomputing, available to all
workstation users."

EnSight 5.1, the latest version, was developed in collaboration
with Electricite de France, the world's largest public utility. 
The software is available for workstations from Silicon
Graphics, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Sun Microsystems and Digital
Equipment/Kubota, and can be used with many different finite
element and fluid dynamics analysis packages, including
MSC/NASTRAN, ANSYS, LS-DYNA3D, FLUENT, FIDAP and STAR-
CD.

CEI used the law firm of Daniels & Daniels, P.A., Research
Triangle Park, in its formation. For additional information on
EnSight, phone CEI at 919/481-4301.  

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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