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PHILLIPS PETROLEUM ORDERS CRAY T3D MASSIVELY
PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEM

EAGAN, Minn., June 14, 1994 -- Phillips Petroleum Company,
headquartered in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, has ordered a 128-
processor CRAY T3D massively parallel processing (MPP)
system for advanced geophysical processing techniques and
other applications, Cray Research (NYSE:CYR)) announced today.

Phillips' CRAY T3D system will be closely coupled with a CRAY
Y-MP system that was also part of the order contract.  The
systems will be installed at Phillips' headquarters in the third
quarter of this year.  Terms were not disclosed.

This is the second order Cray Research has received from the
petroleum industry since the company announced the new MPP
system in September, 1993.  To date, the company said it has
received 23 orders for the CRAY T3D system from the
government, industrial and academic sectors.

"The CRAY T3D will enable us to provide our Exploration and
Production customers with advanced geophysical applications
on a productions basis," said Mark McElroy, Phillips Manager for
E&P Research and Technology.

"We are pleased to see a leading firm like Phillips utilize our
MPP system for their mission-critical industrial applications
such as seismic processing for improved oil exploration," said
John Carlson, Cray Research chairman and chief executive.  
"The CRAY T3D system is the highest-performing, most reliable
MPP product in the market today," he added.  

Carlson noted that although the CRAY T3D system was
introduced just eight months ago, Cray Research has already
become the leading MPP vendor. "This system is designed for
real-world industrial customers, as well as research
facilities."

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

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