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CHRYSLER CORPORATION IS FIRST AUTO CUSTOMER FOR
CRAY RESEARCH'S CRAY T3D MASSIVELY PARALLEL
SYSTEM

Chrysler Partners With Cray Research, Software
Vendor to Optimize Key Application Program on CRAY
T3D

EAGAN, Minn., Sept. 21, 1994 -- Cray Research, Inc. (NYSE:CYR)
announced today that it has received its first CRAY T3D system
order from the auto industry.   Chrysler Corp. has ordered and
installed an air-cooled, 32-processor CRAY T3D massively
parallel processing (MPP) system at The Chrysler Technology
Center in Auburn Hills, Mich.  This is the first MPP system to
be used in the manufacturing industry for real-world,
production-oriented engineering problems, according to Cray
Research.  

"We are using the CRAY T3D with LS/DYNA3D to run real
production sheet metal-forming simulations related to new
Chrysler automobile designs," said Li Zhang, sheet metal
stamping engineer for Chrysler.  "This application is fairly new
for supercomputers, but an important one for the automotive
industry to help us more cost-effectively manufacture new
vehicles.

"Our work so far on the CRAY T3D is a significant step to fully
implementing MPP, and with the help of Cray and LSTC
(Livermore Software Technology Corp.), we will make a major
impact on sheet metal-forming simulation on MPP systems in a
full production environment."

LS-DYNA3D, developed by LSTC, is a structural analysis
software package used by the auto industry for metal-forming
analysis of new car components.  While today the CRAY T3D
system is dedicated to production problems in sheet metal-
forming simulation, the MPP supercomputer will also be
applied to crash simulation and computational fluid dynamics
applications, according to Chrysler.  

"Our goal in partnering with Cray and LSTC is to reduce the
cost of high-performance computing, primarily in the area of
metal-forming analysis," said Ronald J. Bienkowski, Chrysler's
executive, technical computer center vehicle operations.  "We
view MPP as key to meet that goal and we see the CRAY T3D
and LS/DYNA3D as the best MPP solution to help us get there."  

According to John Hallquist, president of LSTC, "We are
pleased and privileged to work with Chrysler, a company that
has taken a leading position in utilizing the most advanced
hardware and software technology to continue America's
competitive position in the automotive market."

Nearly all application software packages used for technical
computing applications by the automotive and other industries
were designed for traditional parallel vector supercomputers
like CRAY C90 series systems available today from Cray
Research.  There are only a handful of commercially available
applications software packages on MPP systems today.  Cray
Research has many initiatives in place to make a variety of
important applications software packages available on the
CRAY T3D first and at unprecedented speeds.  
   
"We are excited to see our product being used in the design of
innovative new Chrysler products like the Chrysler LHS and
Neon vehicles," said John Carlson, Cray Research chairman and
chief executive officer.  "We are proud to partner with
Chrysler and LSTC on this important application project and
very eager to see the positive results of the collaboration
between the technical staffs of all three companies."

There are 25 orders to date for the CRAY T3D system, which
was announced nearly one year ago.  "Cray Research is already
one of the frontrunners in the MPP market," said Carlson.  "We
expect to be the leading MPP vendor by the end of this year."

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

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