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ELECTRICIT� DE FRANCE ORDERS NEW EIGHT-PROCESSOR 

CRAY RESEARCH SYSTEM



EAGAN, Minn., July 19, 1993 -- Electricit� de France (EDF), the world's largest electrical

utility, Clamart, France, has ordered a CRAY C98 supercomputer, the new eight-processor

system in Cray Research's expanded CRAY C90 series of supercomputer systems, Cray Research

announced today.  The system is scheduled for installation in fourth quarter of this year.



EDF is the national company that provides electrical power to all of France.  This is EDF's eighth

Cray Research system order since 1981, when the organization installed a CRAY-1 system. 

EDF currently has two CRAY Y-MP systems, the predecessor of the new CRAY C90 series.  These

systems will be replaced by the more powerful CRAY C98 supercomputer, a liquid-cooled

system offered with four to eight processors.  The new model's list pricing begins at $12

million in the U.S.



EDF will use the CRAY C98 system for structural analysis, electromagnetics, climatology,

nuclear physics and fluid dynamics simulations related to power transmission, new nuclear

power plant design, and power system analysis.  Today, more than 75 percent of all electrical

energy supplied by EDF is nuclear-generation.  EDF recently began to use its Cray Research

systems for climate and weather simulation as well.



"Our Cray Research systems have long been an important part of our business, and we are very

excited to install this newest Cray Research technology," said Michel Pavard, director of EDF's

data processing and applied mathematics unit.  "Throughout the past 12 years we continually

upgraded our supercomputing resources. The increased processing speed and larger central

memory of our new CRAY C98 will allow us to improve the accuracy of our calculations."



"We are pleased by this commercial order for the CRAY C98 system and by our continuing

relationship with EDF," said John Carlson, Cray Research chairman and chief executive officer. 

"EDF's decision to upgrade to our newest technology reaffirms our position as the leading

supplier of high-performance computing tools to industry."



Cray Research has received more than 25 orders for CRAY C90-series systems since the

products were announced.  Other orders for the system have come from classified government

customers, supercomputing centers, weather forecasting organizations, environmental

research facilities, U.S. Department of Energy laboratories, NASA facilities, and Ford Motor

Company.



Including entry-level systems, Cray Research has more than 450 systems installed worldwide,

including more than 60 dedicated to energy-related research and business.



Cray Research creates the most powerful, highest-quality computational tools for solving the

world's most challenging scientific and industrial problems.



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