Cray/Media: Mardi Larson, 612/683-3538 Cray/Financial: Brad Allen, 612/683-7395 CRAY WINS BID AT UK AUTOMOTIVE CONSULTANT MASCOTECH ENGINEERING EAGAN, Minn., Oct. 18, 1995 -- Cray Research, Inc. (NYSE:CYR) said it won a competitive bid from MascoTech Engineering and will install a CRAY(R) J916 compact supercomputer system at that firm's United Kingdom facility in fourth quarter 1995. Cray officials said competitors included Silicon Graphics, the incumbent vendor at MascoTech. The CRAY J90 supercomputer will be used by MascoTech engineers for a wide range of computer-aided engineering and design work using such popular commercially available software as CSA/NASTRAN, PAMCRASH, OASYS DYNA, RADIOSS and ABAQUS. According to MascoTech officials, the CRAY J90 supercomputer was chosen over competing solutions because of its leading performance on the customer's benchmark that included strenuous tests of the system's memory and input/output (I/O) bandwidth; the system's ability to support multiple concurrent users operating a wide range of application software; Cray's expertise in the customer's application set and in the worldwide automotive industry; and the company's long- standing relationship with the commercial software vendors for these applications. MascoTech Engineering, a division of Masco Corporation, provides design and engineering consulting to the worldwide automotive industry. MascoTech recently acquired the consultant services division of SDRC in the UK. This acquisition along with the installation of the CRAY J90 system will reinforce the firm's position as the leading supplier of technical services in the European automotive marketplace. Cray said nearly all of the world's automotive manufacturers use Cray supercomputers for design, engineering and manufacturing applications related to new car development. Automotive suppliers are a fast-growing segment of Cray's overall customer base, which has expanded from 250 to more than 650 customers since 1990. Automotive suppliers -- including electronic and other component manufacturers, engineering specialists and consultants, and tire companies -- now make up nearly 30 percent of Cray's auto-industry installed base and 10 percent of all orders for the low-cost, air-cooled CRAY J90 supercomputers, the company said. Cray Research provides the leading high-performance computing tools and services to help solve customers' most challenging problems. ###