Cray/Media:        Mardi Larson, 612/683-3538
Cray/Financial:    Brad Allen, 612/683-7395 

GERMAN RESEARCH CENTER ORDERS MULTIPLE CRAY
SUPERCOMPUTERS

EAGAN, Minn., July 24, 1995 -- Cray Research, Inc. (CYR:NYSE)
announced today that it has received an order for multiple Cray
supercomputers from German Research Center KFA,
Forschungszentrum Juelich.  The second-quarter order includes
two of Cray's newest and most powerful supercomputing
systems, as well as a CRAY J90 low-cost supercomputer.  The
installation of all the supercomputers is expected to be
complete in mid-1996, placing KFA among the world's most
powerful supercomputer centers.  Terms were not disclosed. 

The contract included a CRAY T916 supercomputer with 12
processors and a peak performance of 24  billion calculations
per second.  KFA also ordered a large configuration of Cray's
next-generation Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) system
and a 20-processor CRAY J932 supercomputer. 

The systems will replace existing Cray supercomputers. 
According to a KFA press release, the systems are
conservatively estimated to increase the computer capacity of
the KFA center by a factor of ten.     

KFA also noted that while vector computers like the CRAY T90
utilize a limited number of very high-efficient processors --
up to 32 in the CRAY T90 system --  MPP systems operate with
a larger number of less-powerful and inexpensive
microprocessors and possess a higher peak performance. 
According to experts, the KFA release said, peak performance
will in the future be achieved with MPP systems; however,
today, vector computers run more applications and cannot be
discredited, since so far MPP system can be efficiently used
for only selected applications.
 
Cray Research provides the leading high-performance
computing tools and services to help solve customers' most
challenging problems.

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