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CRAY RESEARCH SUPERSERVERS SAYS FRENCH ELECTRIC
UTILITY IS EARLY CUSTOMER FOR NEW SPARC SUPERSERVER
SYSTEM 

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 25, 1993 -- Cray Research Superservers
(CRS), a subsidiary of Cray Research, Inc. (NYSE:CYR),
announced that the research division of Electricite' de France
(EDF), the world's largest electrical utility, based in Clamart,
France, will be an early customer for CRS' new CRAY
SUPERSERVER 6400 (CS6400) system unveiled today.  

A 16-processor system with two gigabytes of central memory
will be shipped during November and the system will be
upgraded to 32 processors and four gigabytes of memory in
1994.  Terms were not disclosed.

EDF, a long-time Cray Research customer, has plans to use the
CS6400 for scientific, engineering and data management
applications serving users over EDF's extensive computer
network.   

"We will use the CRAY SUPERSERVER 6400 system to provide
enterprise level general computing services to various
organizations within EDF," said Michel Pavard, head of EDF's
data processing and applied mathematics unit.  "We were
looking for a high-performance UNIX server to support a
variety of applications and a large number of users, and the
CRAY SUPERSERVER 6400 system was our choice.  With its
data center capabilities, scalability and excellent
price/performance the system fits nicely into our existing
network."

"We are pleased that EDF will be one of our first system
customers of the CS6400," said Martin Buchanan, general
manager of CRS.  "EDF has a state-of-the-art data center and
computer network supporting many users running a wide
variety of applications.  The CS6400 will provide outstanding
price/performance on the mix of database management and
general engineering applications for which EDF will utilize the
system."

EDF is the national company that provides electrical power to
all of France.  CRS is dedicated to creating the world's leading
SPARC/Solaris-compliant computer systems.

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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