JAPAN'S CHIBA UNIVERSITY INSTALLS EIGHT CRAY RESEARCH SYSTEMS

First Time Systems This Powerful Are Dedicated To
General Education At A University

EAGAN, Minn., April 14, 1994 -- Cray Research Inc. (NYSE:CYR)
announced today that Japan's Chiba University has installed eight
CRAY EL92 deskside supercomputing systems and later this quarter
is scheduled to install one CRAY SUPERSERVER 6400 (CS6400) all
to be used for general education.  This is the first time
anywhere in the world that a university has dedicated a Cray
Research system to this activity.

The installed Cray Research systems will be used for
computational science education as part of Chiba University's
required courses.  The systems will not only be used by
students in engineering departments but by law, economics,
medical, humanities, education, physical sciences, nursing and
horticulture departments as well.

This will be the first time students in such diverse disciplines
will have access to parallel processing computers.  The Cray
Research systems will be connected to more than 200
computer terminals located throughout the university campus.  
Chiba University said it expects the high-performance
computing environment to promote a new campus
computing model for higher education.

Through a competitive procurement process, Canon
Supercomputing S.I. and Cray Research Japan Ltd. were chosen
to provide the university with the high-performance computer
equipment, according to Cray Research officials.

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

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