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CRAY T3D IS CENTERPIECE OF NEW BRITISH
SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER

EAGAN, Minn., Feb. 1, 1995 -- The Farnborough Supercomputing
Centre (FSC), Farnborough, England, has installed a CRAY T3D
massively parallel processing (MPP) system as the centerpiece
of this new facility, Cray Research, Inc., (NYSE: CYR) reported
today.  The CRAY T3D system will be coupled with three CRAY
Y-MP supercomputers on site and several CRAY EL compact
supercomputer systems on site and at remote locations. 
Financial terms were not disclosed.

The new Farnborough Supercomputing Centre is a government-
industry initiative led by the Defence Research Agency (DRA),
British Aerospace plc, GEC-Marconi Ltd. and Cray Research. The
public-private center was established to provide United
Kingdom industry, government agencies and academia with
access to high-level computational resources.  The center also
is expected to promote collaboration on scientific and
industrial research and development aided by high-performance
computational tools.

The CRAY T3D installed at Farnborough features 256
processors and 16 gigabytes of memory.  The systems
facilities are managed by Computer Sciences Corporation
(CSC), a company with considerable experience in the operation
of computer centers and networks, Cray officials said.

At the FSC, the Cray Research supercomputers will be used for
research and development in areas such as computational
electromagnetics, fluid dynamics, structural analysis, detonics
and computational chemistry and visualization.  Any computing
capacity not used by consortium members will be sold to other
customers.

At a dedication ceremony earlier this week, Ian Taylor,
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Trade and
Technology, said, "The Farnborough Supercomputing Centre is
the largest conglomeration of computing power in Europe and is
a benefit to British innovation in an area that has a key role to
play in the increasing competitiveness of British Industry." 

David Lockley, General Manager of the Farnborough
Supercomputing Centre, added, "The benefits of having access
to computational resources provided by the CRAY T3D and other
Cray Research systems at Farnborough are quite
straightforward.  New products can be brought to market
earlier and at a lower cost, and the results are often better
than by using traditional research and development methods. 
By shortening the time required to bring new products to
market, industries across the United Kingdom will gain
advantages in the international marketplace."

"We are delighted to be a partner in the Farnborough
Supercomputing Centre -- and in the role it will play in
enhancing the competitiveness of United Kingdom industrial
and government concerns," said Robert H. Ewald, president and
chief operating officer of Cray Research.  "We are also
gratified that the consortium selected the CRAY T3D as the
center's primary computing resource."

Introduced a year ago, the CRAY T3D is the leading MPP system
in the scientific and technical market, Cray said.
 
Cray Research provides the leading supercomputing tools and
services to help solve customers' most challenging problems.

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