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EPFL ORDERS CRAY T3D MASSIVELY PARALLEL
PROCESSING SYSTEM, SIGNS APPLICATIONS
DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT WITH CRAY RESEARCH

EAGAN, Minn., Feb. 16, 1994 -- Cray Research, Inc. (NYSE:CYR)
announced today that Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
(EPFL), The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, has ordered
a CRAY T3D massively parallel processing (MPP) system.

A 128-processor CRAY T3D system is scheduled to be installed
at EPFL's Computing Center, Lausanne, Switzerland, in second-
quarter 1994.   Terms were not disclosed.

Under Cray's Parallel Applications Technology Partners (PATP)
program, the system will be available to EPFL's users and for
collaborations with Cray Research to develop targeted
software applications for the CRAY T3D system in these main
areas:

* Fluid dynamics, with the capacity to model and simulate
  industrial flows in complex systems such as turbines and
  turbomachinery, energy production and distribution,
  combustion in heat exchangers and engines, chemical
  processes, ships, automobiles, aeronautics, high-speed
  terrestial transports in tunnels, meteorology and climate, and
  cardio-vascular systems.

* Plasma physics, where the simulation in three dimensions of
  magnetically confined plasma is required in order to design the
  fusion reactors of the next century.

* Material sciences, with the capacity to simulate groups of
  thousands of atoms, in order to develop new materials or new
  processes (for example, in relation with nanotechnology), to
  look for new drugs for medicine, and to better understand
  biological mechanisms.

* Image processing, for image compression and decompression
  methods, for example for high definition television, or for
  artificial vision with applications in robotics and quality
  control.

There are 15 orders for the CRAY T3D system, which was
announced in Sept., 1993.  "Cray Research is already one of the
frontrunners in the MPP market," said Cray Research chairman
and CEO John F. Carlson.  "We expect to be the leading MPP
vendor a year from now."

The PATP program is aimed at rapidly expanding the number of
applications available in the new MPP arena, using the CRAY
T3D system as a platform for running these applications first,
and at unprecedented speeds, according to Carlson.   EPFL is
the European partner in the PATP program in collaboration
with its U.S. counterparts Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center,
and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. 

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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