Media:      Mardi Larson, at UniForum March 23 - 25 
            (booth #3021)
            After UniForum, 612/683-3538,  
            Steve Conway 612-683-7133

Financial:  Bill Gacki, 612/683-7372 

CRAY RESEARCH ANNOUNCES NEW VERSION OF
CRAYSOFT'S SOPHISTICATED BATCH PROCESSING
SOFTWARE

NQE Software Supports More Platforms, Is Basis For
Cummings Group Network Tools Development

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., March 23, 1994 -- Cray Research, Inc.
today announced that its sophisticated batch processing and
automatic load balancing software for UNIX computer networks
is scheduled to be available third quarter of this year on a
broader range of workstations and servers.  The Network
Queuing Environment (NQE) software 1.1, the newest version of
the distributed batch management product that is developed by
Cray Research and marketed and sold on other computer
platforms by the company's CraySoft initiative, is being
demonstrated here at the UniForum conference and exhibit this
week.

Cray Research also announced today that it has signed a Value
Added Reseller (VAR) agreement with The Cummings Group,
Inc., (TCG), Seattle, Wash., authors of the NQS Exec and
NCToolset products.  As part of the agreement, TCG will use
the NQE product as the job management component for its suite
of network tools.

The NQE product today supports SPARC/Solaris-compliant
systems like the CRAY SUPERSERVER 6400 (CS6400) and Sun
Microsystems Computer Corp.'s (SMCC) family of products.  NQE
1.1 software will support these platforms, as well as
SPARC/SunOS systems, IBM RS6000 systems, SGI systems, HP
PA-RISC systems, and DEC Alpha systems running OSF/1. 
Distributed batch job demonstrations of the NQE 1.1 software
are being conducted at UniForum on a variety of systems
including a Sun SPARC workstation, an IBM RS6000
workstation, a DEC Alpha workstation, a CS6400 system, and a
CRAY EL92 system, all in Cray Research's booth (#3021), as
well as a SPARCcenter 2000 system residing in SMCC's booth.

"Since we began shipping the NQE product earlier this year we
have seen a lot of interest from both technical and commercial
customers who recognize this software's potential as a
powerful new tool for production-quality distributed batch
management," said Leary Gates, CraySoft program manager.

NQE software automatically distributes a job to the most
appropriate resource on the network and provides reliable data
transfer.  This has generated interest from users in the
financial, automotive, and pharmaceutical industries, as well
as in the government and university marketplace worldwide,
Gates said.

"These users are interested in NQE software because of its
sophisticated load balancing capabilities that automatically
assign jobs to the best available resource on a network -- 
whether that is a single workstation, a workstation cluster, a
server, Superserver system or Cray Research supercomputer. 
This product allows users to share enterprise-wide network
resources more effectively," Gates said.

He said that a customer does not require a Cray Research
system to use CraySoft software.  CraySoft's NQE software is
a client/server product that provides reliable server batch
processing.  It is based on the industry-proven Cray Research
NQS-based software developed and continually enhanced for
the company's supercomputing systems.

Gates said CraySoft's NQE 1.1 has a list price of $2,875 (U.S.)
for a 10 user network license, noting that its competitive
pricing strategy makes it an even more attractive product
because customers are charged based only on the number of
concurrent users on the server.   Clients can be freely
distributed on the customer network.

Regarding the agreement between Cray Research and TCG,
Daniel Cummings, chairman of TCG, said "the decision to
replace NQS Exec, the batch scheduling subsystem in
NCtoolset, with the CraySoft NQE software was based on the
new software's superior functionality and CraySoft's
commitment to creating standard-based products.  CraySoft
understands our market and customer needs and Cray Research
is the leader in high-performance technology and understands
how to move that technology out to the world of network
computing."

According to Bob Slone, TCG president, CraySoft's NQE will be
the basis for all future software development related to TCG's
networking tools aimed at the commercial marketplace.  "Many
commercial organizations are looking for a heterogeneous
batch processing and network load balancing solution," said
Slone.  "These are complex network issues and we view
CraySoft's NQE product as the industry's leading solution.  We
are pleased to have this agreement with Cray and to offer to
our customers its core technology coupled with our value-
added features."

CraySoft, formed in Oct., 1993, is an initiative aimed at
bringing Cray Research software -- networking and application
software, compilers, tools, and libraries -- to more users on a
variety of computer platforms including workstations, servers
and PCs.  CraySoft's next product is the CraySoft Fortran 90
programming environment, which is based on Cray Fortran 90
(CF90), the first full, native implementation of the F90
standard.

CraySoft products are available through VARs and distributors
like TCG, Cray Research sales offices worldwide, and Cray
Research's new high-performance hotline, 1-800-BUY-CRAY,
as well as e-mail at craysoft@cray.com.

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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