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

SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS ORDERS CRAY SUPERSERVER
6400 FOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND SWITCHING
SYSTEM APPLICATIONS

EAGAN, Minn., Dec. 21, 1994 -- Samsung Electronics, Co. Ltd.,
Seoul, Korea, has ordered a CRAY SUPERSERVER 6400 (CS6400)
system to be installed early next year at the company's
Communication System R&D Center for advanced
telecommunications research in switching system design, Cray
Research, Inc. (NYSE:CYR) announced today.  Cray said this is a
significant win in its expansion into the telecommunications
industry. 

According to Samsung officials, the CS6400 system offered
the highest performing and most scalable solution for
Samsung's advanced telecommunications and switching
applications.  The company ordered a 16-processor system that
can be easily field-upgraded to up to 64 processors in the
single system chassis.  The Cray system will be used primarily
for software development and design simulation work. 

"We chose the CS6400 system based on its expandability and
price/performance, as well as Cray's experience in providing
high quality service for large systems," according to a
Samsung official. 

"We are very pleased that Samsung chose Cray to provide a
platform for its advanced telecommunication and switching
research and to see our CS6400 system go into new customer
sites around the world for important business applications,"
said John Carlson, chairman and chief executive officer for
Cray Research.  Carlson noted that Samsung also has a Cray
Research supercomputing system it installed three years ago
dedicated to advanced electronics and component design work. 

The CS6400 system began shipping in February 1994.  Carlson
said that one of the largest Oracle sites in Europe, Churchill
Insurance, recently ordered two CS6400 systems through
Amdahl serving as prime contractor.  The CS6400 system has
also been selected to run the United Kingdom census database,
International Monetary Fund (IMF) financial statistics, and
complex data work at Atlantic Richfield Co. (ARCO); Electricite
de France, the world's largest public utility; and the entire
business at Neighborhood Beverage, a start-up bottling
company in Los Angeles.  The system has set leading
performance standards on the TPC-B benchmark and
SPECrate92 benchmarks run to date.
  
The CS6400 system, beginning at under $400,000 (U.S. list
price), is offered with up to 64 SuperSPARC Plus
microprocessors, up to 16 gigabytes of central memory and up
to seven terabytes of on-line storage.  The system runs the
Solaris operating environment, which, among other
enhancements, has been parallelized for up to 64 processors. 
Earlier this week Cray Research and Interphase Corporation
announced industry-leading ATM speeds with the CS6400 and
Interphase ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) Sbus Adapters. 

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

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