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

FRENCH AUTOMAKER PSA PEUGEOT-CITROEN ORDERS CLUSTER
OF SIX CRAY SUPERCOMPUTERS FOR CRASH ANALYSIS
    
EAGAN, Minn., March 12, 1996 -- French automaker PSA
Peugeot Citroen, Paris, has ordered and is now installing six
CRAY J90 supercomputer systems, Cray Research, Inc.
(NYSE:CYR) announced today.  Five of the systems will be used
to conduct crash analysis simulations for the company's new
Peugeot and Citroen car models.  Terms were not disclosed.

"Our goal is to decentralize crash simulations from our high-
end CRAY C90 supercomputer by moving them closer to the
teams doing the analysis work in departments and groups
throughout our organization," said Jean-Serge Bertoncini, Chief
Information Officer of PSA Peugeot-Citroen Group. "We can
place these six CRAY J90 air-cooled supercomputers systems
in office environments on our corporate network while the
compatible CRAY C90 is dedicated to other intensive CAE
applications."

According to PSA Peugeot-Citroen officials, the Cray(R)
systems were selected under a competitive bid.  The company's
main requirement was the ability to fully and efficiently
support the parallel-vector version of RADIOSS, a popular
crash analysis code used by the automotive industry.  Cray has
supported RADIOSS for more than six years on its parallel-
vector supercomputers and is the performance leader on this
application.

Bertoncini said Cray's Network Queuing Environment (NQE)
network load balancing software, which helps customers get
the most from their clustered systems, was an attractive
feature in Cray's proposal.  NQE automatically monitors the
systems on a local area network and ensures that no one
system is overwhelmed with work while another sits idle.
Peugeot-Citroen will use this software on the CRAY J90
cluster for balancing the day-to-day crash analysis workload
for the company.

Cray Research provides the leading high-performance
computing tools services to help solve customers' most
challenging problems. 
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