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MITI INSTALLS FIRST TOP-OF-THE-LINE CRAY RESEARCH
SUPERCOMPUTER SYSTEM IN JAPAN

Two CRAY SUPERSERVER 6400 Systems Also Installed 

EAGAN, Minn., April 18, 1994 -- The first top-of-the-line CRAY
C916 supercomputer system in Japan has been installed at an
agency of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry
(MITI), Cray Research (NYSE:CYR) said today.

The CRAY C916 system, acquired through an international
competitive procurement process under the Japanese
government's 1993 supplemental budget for infrastructure
improvement, replaces an older CRAY X-MP supercomputer
system at MITI's Agency of Industrial Science and Technology
(AIST).  Also installed as part of the same procurement were
two CRAY SUPERSERVER 6400 (CS6400) systems, the company
said.  Terms were not disclosed.

As MITI's research arm, AIST supports advanced basic and
applied research. The CRAY C916 system will be used for
scientific and technical computation, high-speed information
processing and simulations, and for visualizing a wide range of
research results at the Electronic Technology Laboratory and
AIST's other laboratories.  The system's 8-gigabytes (billion
bytes) of memory will make it possible to tackle very large
problems quickly.   AIST said acquisition of the CRAY C916
system will allow the agency to create Japan's leading
information-processing environment.

The CS6400 systems, from wholly owned subsidiary Cray
Research Superservers, Beaverton, Oregon, are SPARC/Solaris-
compatible products that will be used as front-end
Superservers in the AIST environment, Cray Research said.  

The Cray Research systems will be linked with other newly
installed systems, including a file server and graphic
workstations, via a HIPPI high-speed channel, the company
said.

Cray Research provides the leading supercomputing tools and
services to help solve customers' most challenging problems.

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