Cray/Media: Mardi Larson, 612/683-3538 Cray/Financial: Bill Gacki, 612/683-7372 CRAY RESEARCH ANNOUNCES 25 ORDERS FOR ITS DEPARTMENTAL SUPERCOMPUTING SYSTEMS IN THE SECOND QUARTER 11 Are From First-Time Customers in Europe, Japan, South Africa and the U.S. EAGAN, Minn., July 27, 1994 -- Cray Research, Inc. (NYSE:CYR) announced today that it has received 25 orders in second quarter 1994 for its departmental supercomputing systems from companies, government agencies and universities in the U.K., France, Japan, South Africa and the U.S. Eleven of the orders were placed by first-time Cray Research customers, the company said. Fifteen of the orders were for the current CRAY EL90 departmental systems; 10 orders were for the company's next- generation departmental supercomputer, scheduled to be announced later this year with volume availability in the first half of 1995. First-time customers purchasing CRAY EL90 series systems during the company's second quarter include: the Chugoku Electric Power Company (CEP) in Hiroshima, Japan; CORDATA, a South African distributor; and the Defense Information Systems Agency, Scott Air Force Base, Illinois. Cray Research announced that four CRAY EL90 systems were ordered by new university customers, including: Tulane University Biomedical Engineering Department, New Orleans; Hiroshima Institute of Technology, Japan; ENSMA Poitiers and the University of Marne la Vallee, France. The Chugoku Electric Power Company, one of Japan's 10 regional power companies, became the first Japanese power company to purchase a Cray Research supercomputer system. CEP will install a CRAY EL90 system at its Technical Research Center in Hiroshima. The center will use the new system to analyze structural stress on the company's electrical towers, measure and research electrical systems, and simulate weather patterns to predict regional power demands and needs. CORDATA has formed a trust with the South African Weather Bureau and the University of Pretoria to install a CRAY EL90 system at the weather bureau to be used by all three parties. CORDATA will use the system for demonstration purposes as it continues to sell Cray Research system in that country. It will also lease system usage to other organizations. In late June, a CRAY EL90 system was installed at the Defense Information Systems Agency, Air Mobility Command headquarters at Scott Air Force base, Illinois. The system will be used to address the agency's recent assignment from Congress to select, by November 1995, the best and most affordable "C-17" type military transport plane. The supercomputer system will be used to evaluate aircraft manufacturers' proposals against hundreds of criteria to determine which aircraft design best fits the military's transport needs and affordability requirements. List pricing for the CRAY EL90 series begins at $150,000 in the U.S. The series includes the CRAY EL94 "deskside" supercomputing system, which holds up to four processors and 512 megabytes (million bytes) of central memory, and the CRAY EL98 system, with up to eight processors and 4096 megabytes of memory. "We designed our CRAY EL90 line and follow-on product as an affordable and powerful solution for smaller enterprises that might not need or be budgeted for our larger supercomputers," said John F. Carlson, Cray Research chairman and chief executive officer. He said that the CRAY EL90 systems -- the company's second-generation of departmental supercomputers -- are offered with the same UNIX operating environment and the same suite of more than 600 applications that operate on larger Cray Research systems. There are 511 Cray Research supercomputers installed worldwide, of which more than 180 are compact, air-cooled supercomputing systems like those ordered by the above organizations. Cray Research provides the leading supercomputing tools and services to help solve customers' most challenging problems.