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FRENCH NATIONAL CENTER OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ORDERS MULTIPLE CRAY SYSTEMS

EAGAN, Minn., Oct. 18, 1995 -- The French National Supercomputing Facility
(IDRIS) for the National Center of Scientific Research (CNRS) has placed a
third-quarter order for Cray MPP supercomputers including a CRAY(R) T3D
scalable parallel processing system and a CRAY T3D successor system due out
next year, Cray Research (NYSE:CYR) announced today. Terms of the
competitive bid were not disclosed.

The CRAY T3D system was installed and accepted at IDRIS, near Paris, in
third quarter. The next-generation system is slated for installation next
year, Cray officials said.

The systems will serve the high-performance computing needs of the French
scientific community. The CRAY T3D and next- generation scalable parallel
processing systems are specifically targeted to grand challenge problems in
environmental research, chemistry and physics.

Cray Research provides the leading high-performance computing tools and
services to help solve customers' most challenging problems.


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