Cray/Media:       Steve Conway 612-683-7133
Cray/Financial:   Brad Allen 612-683-7395
Cray/UK:          Nick Cock 44-344-722308
Amdahl/UK:        Ken Gorf 44-252-344400

CHURCHILL INSURANCE ORDERS TWO CRAY RESEARCH
SUPERSERVER SYSTEMS THROUGH AMDAHL CORPORATION

Cray Systems Are Only Ones That Pass Demanding
Tests At One of Europe's Largest Transaction-
Processing Sites

EAGAN, Minn., December 14, 1994 -- Leading United Kingdom
insurer Churchill Insurance has ordered two Cray Superserver
6400 (CS6400) systems through prime contractor Amdahl
Corp., Cray Research, Inc. (NYSE:CYR) announced today. 
Financial terms were not disclosed.

Two 13-processor CS6400 systems were installed this month
at Churchill's Bromley headquarters facility, where they will
be used as high-end, mission-critical Oracle OLTP (online
transaction processing) servers, according to Cray Research
Superservers Ltd. general manager Nick Cock.  Churchill is one
of Europe's largest OLTP sites, he said.

The Amdahl competitive win followed an 18-month
procurement process in which vendors were asked to run a
demanding benchmark simulating the insurer's Oracle-based
online auto insurance policy application system with 2,000
concurrent users, according to Churchill chief information
officer Carl Ricketts.  "We tested a wide range of UNIX
multiprocessor systems.  The CS6400 system was the only one
that passed the test."

Ricketts said added attractions of the CS6400 systems are
that each can be expanded to 64 processors and multiple
systems could be clustered to handle future growth.  "Our
business is increasing--we expect to have 750 online users
next year.  The CS6400 systems can grow with us."

The SPARC-based symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) systems
will run Sun's Solaris operating environment with Cray
Research and Amdahl extensions.  Amdahl is providing systems
management software and systems integration, he said. 

"We're pleased that Amdahl successfully bid our superserver
systems for this high-profile procurement," Cock said.  "The
CS6400 is the most powerful, scalable SMP system available
today."

"The Churchill Insurance project confirms that SPARC and
Solaris have arrived in the high-end commercial systems
market," said Ken Gorf, director, open systems for Amdahl in
Northern Europe.  "The combination of the CS6400 and our
experience in systems integration and management is a winner,
and the strong teamwork between our two organizations bodes
well for the future."

The CS6400 system is offered by Cray Research Superservers,
part of Cray's Business Systems division.  Cray Research
provides the leading high-performance computing tools and
services to help solve customers' most challenging problems.

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