Mardi Larson,  612/683-3538

HAWTAL-WHITING GROUP ORDERS CRAY EL98 AND
NEXT-GENERATION DEPARTMENTAL SUPERCOMPUTER

EAGAN, Minn., March 1, 1994 -- Cray Research, Inc. (NYSE-CYR)
today announced that Hawtal Whiting Group, an engineering
design consulting firm based in the United Kingdom, has
installed a CRAY EL98 departmental supercomputer at its
Basildon, Essex, headquarters, and has also ordered a next-
generation Cray Research departmental system due out in
1995.  

Hawtal Whiting's clients include most of the world's
automobile manufacturers.  In addition to offering styling,
design and manufacturing services, the company also
specializes in structural, dynamic, acoustic and
crashworthiness analysis of vehicle bodies.

Hawtal Whiting will use the CRAY EL98 system primarily to
run structural analysis applications.  The CRAY EL98 system
will enable the company to analyze substantially larger models
in significantly less time.  Colin Cox, senior principal
engineer, said Hawtal Whiting selected the CRAY EL98 system
after evaluating it against other supercomputers as well as
networked workstation offerings.  "The Cray Research system
offered the best performance across the range of applications
we typically run," said Cox.

Cox said Hawtal Whiting's customers in the auto industry
require increasingly complex design and engineering analyses
and faster turnaround time to support their own quality and
cycle-time improvement efforts.  "The CRAY EL98 system and
the successor system we ordered will enhance our capabilities
to ensure we can keep up with the escalating requirements of
our customers," said Cox.

Cox said the CRAY EL98 system is also proving to be a
marketing advantage for the company.  "The fact that we will
be doing design and analysis work on our own Cray Research
system strengthens our credibility with customers and
prospects in the automotive industry who are often already
Cray Research customers themselves," said Cox.

Approximately 40 Hawtal Whiting engineers will have access
to the system from the firm's two UK offices.  A fiber optic
link to the firm's Troy, Mich., office will give engineers there
access to the system. 

"Hawtal Whiting is another new-name customer for Cray
Research and we're very pleased to add them to our growing
list of users in the auto industry," said John Carlson, Cray
Research chairman and chief executive officer.  "The Hawtal
Whiting order is another example of how our presence in the
auto industry is expanding beyond the manufacturers
themselves to include suppliers and consultants to the
industry."

Of the more than 500 Cray Research systems installed
worldwide, 22 are used by automobile manufacturers and
suppliers to the auto industry.

Hawtal Whiting purchased the CRAY EL98 system under a
recently introduced Cray Research program that offers
customers lower combined pricing on orders of a CRAY EL98
system and a next-generation departmental supercomputer
expected to be available for delivery in the first quarter of
1995.  These next generation systems are expected to be 6 to
12 times more powerful than the CRAY EL98 supercomputer at
approximately the same price point.  Pricing for CRAY EL98
systems begins at approximately $300,000 (U.S.).

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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