Media: Mardi Larson, 612/683-3538 Financial: Brad Allen, 612/683-7395 CRAY RESEARCH WINS NTT BID WITH TOP-OF-THE-LINE CRAY T90 SUPERCOMPUTER SYSTEM EAGAN, Minn., November 7, 1995 -- Cray Research, Inc. (NYSE:CYR) announced today that Japanese telecommunications giant Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (NTT) has selected a top-of-the-line, 32-processor CRAY T90(tm) supercomputer system under a competitive procurement. Terms were not disclosed. The CRAY T932(tm) system, with peak performance of 60 billion calculations per second (gigaflops) and eight billion bytes (gigabytes) of main memory, is scheduled for installation later this quarter at NTT's Musashino R&D center in Musashino City, Japan, and will be used for new materials development and advanced multimedia research, including image processing technologies. The system demonstrated sustained performance of 30 gigaflops for this procurement, which was based on an open solicitation published by NTT in April 1995. "We are pleased by this significant win at a firm of NTT's stature," said J. Phillip Samper, chairman and chief executive officer of Cray Research. "Demand for our new CRAY T90 product line represented more than 45 percent of our order backlog at the end of the third quarter. Industrial and other customers are choosing the CRAY T90 system to run their production computing work, and Japan is a particularly strong market for this product line." Samper said Cray's business in Japan is growing and there are currently more than 100 Cray systems installed in that country. Cray Research provides the leading high-performance computing tools and services to help solve customers' most challenging problems.