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DEFENSE NUCLEAR AGENCY INSTALLS LARGE MEMORY
CRAY RESEARCH SUPERCOMPUTER AT LOS ALAMOS
NATIONAL LABORATORY

EAGAN, Minn., March 14, 1994 -- Cray Research, Inc. (NYSE: 
CYR) announced today that the Defense Nuclear Agency of the
Department of Defense has recently installed a CRAY M98
supercomputer system at Los Alamos National Laboratory.  The
CRAY M98 system supplements CRAY Y-MP and X-MP systems
also currently used by the agency.  The system was installed at
Los Alamos in December 1993.

The CRAY M98 system installed at Los Alamos for the Defense
Nuclear Agency is configured with two gigawords of main
memory and is one of the largest shared memory systems in
the world.  The system will provide the primary computing
resource for the Defense Nuclear Agency's users, who number
more than 500 nationwide.  The Defense Nuclear Agency
manages weapons inventory and conducts weapons effects
research for the Department of Defense.

Dr. Paul Carew, the Defense Nuclear Agency's Director of
Information Management, said acquisition of the CRAY M98
system will permit the agency to consolidate workloads,
address larger and more complex problems and speed
throughput.  "The very large main memory of the CRAY M98
system will enable us to model components and structures at
finer resolutions and will increase our efficiency in providing
weapons effects information to our customers in the defense
community," said Carew.

Dr. Hassan Dayem, Division Director-Computing, Information
and Communications for Los Alamos National Laboratory, said: 
"The large memory CRAY M98 system at Los Alamos represents
a significant increase in the computational capability for DNA. 
It also demonstrates the value of interagency sharing of
capability and expertise."

John F. Carlson, Cray Research Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer, noted that the acceptance of the CRAY M98 system at
Los Alamos National Laboratory continues a long relationship
with one of the company's most important customers.  "The
delivery of the CRAY M98 system at Los Alamos continues a
relationship that began with the laboratory's acceptance of the
first CRAY-1 in 1976 and that now spans 18 years," said
Carlson.

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

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