Cray/Media: Mardi Larson 612/683-3538 Cray/Financial: Brad Allen 612/683-7395 KOREAN TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH FIRM INSTALLS CRAY RESEARCH SUPERSERVER 6400 EAGAN, Minn., Jan. 12, 1995 -- The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), Daejeon, Korea, has installed a Cray Research Superserver 6400 (CS6400) system, Cray Research, Inc. (NYSE:CYR) announced today. ETRI is the first telecommunications research firm to install a Cray Research system for telecommunications research and product development. Cray Research recently announced that Samsung Electronics, Co. Ltd., Seoul, Korea, has ordered and will install a CS6400 system early this year for similar research and design applications. ETRI is using the CS6400 system to develop telecommunications systems which support the emerging ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) protocol. In one application, the CS6400 is being used to run tests of software compilers that contain more than two million lines of C language programming code. These tests, which used to take two days to run on a Digital Equipment Corporation VAX mainframe system, run in less than 20 minutes on the 32-processor Cray Research server. The Cray Research system was selected in competitive bidding. According to ETRI officials, the CS6400 system offered the highest performance and most scalable platform for the company's product development applications. ETRI installed a 32-processor system that can be easily field-upgraded to up to 64 processors in the single system chassis. The system installed at ETRI contains two gigabytes of internal memory and 60 gigabytes of online disk. The Cray system will be used primarily for software development and design simulation work. "This is a significant win for Cray Research as we expand our presence in the telecommunications industry," according to Bobbi Hazard, vice president and general manager of Cray's Business Systems Division. "The CS6400 has been well received as a database server and as a scalable solution for scientific and engineering applications. It is the only product on the market that provides this level of performance in a system and is successfully addressing a wide range of market needs." The CS6400 system began shipping in February 1994. One of the largest Oracle sites in Europe, Churchill Insurance, recently ordered two CS6400 systems through Amdahl serving as prime contractor. The CS6400 system has also been selected to run the United Kingdom census database, International Monetary Fund (IMF) financial statistics, and complex data work at Atlantic Richfield Co. (ARCO); Electricite de France, the world's largest public utility; and the entire business at Neighborhood Beverage, a start-up bottling company in Los Angeles. The system has set leading performance standards on the TPC-B benchmark and SPECrate92 benchmarks run to date. The CS6400 system, beginning at under $400,000 (U.S. list price), is offered with up to 64 SuperSPARC Plus microprocessors, up to 16 gigabytes of central memory and up to seven terabytes of on-line storage. The system runs the Solaris operating environment, which, among other enhancements, has been parallelized for up to 64 processors. Early last month Cray Research and Interphase Corporation announced industry-leading ATM speeds with the CS6400 and Interphase ATM Sbus Adapters. Cray Research provides the leading supercomputing tools and services to help solve customers' most challenging problems. ###