Cray/Media:       Steve Conway 612-683-7133
Cray/Financial:   Bill Gacki 612-683-7372
Savant:           Jim Hicks 214-770-2080

CRAY RESEARCH ACQUIRES SAVANT SYSTEMS TO ADVANCE PURSUIT
OF COMMERCIAL PARALLEL PROCESSING MARKET

EAGAN, Minn., Sept. 19, 1994 -- Cray Research, Inc. (NYSE:CYR)
said it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Savant
Systems, Dallas, Texas, a privately held consulting firm
specializing in database and transaction-processing business
solutions.  The acquisition supports Cray Research's pursuit of
the growing commercial market for parallel processing
computer systems, according to company officials.  Financial
terms were not disclosed.

Savant Systems is now a wholly owned Cray Research
subsidiary renamed Savant/CraySolutions, and will remain
based in Dallas.  Savant Systems' CEO Jim Hicks and president
Terri Campbell-Hicks will direct the efforts of
Savant/CraySolutions, said Cray Research chairman and CEO
John F. Carlson.

Savant/CraySolutions will continue to focus on its consulting
business, which includes business systems analysis, design and
implementation, large-scale project management, and long-
term technical support (outsourcing) services.
Savant/CraySolutions will also collaborate in Cray Research's
overall pursuit of the commercial parallel processing market
for decision-support solutions. As part of Cray Research, he
said, Savant/CraySolutions will use its industry expertise,
along with its knowledge of Oracle and other relational
database management systems (RDBMS), application products
and development tools, in crafting leading-edge business
solutions.  

"A critical issue in all industries today is how to manage the
huge databases assembled in recent years," Carlson said.  "To
name just a few, retail, credit card, telecommunications,
banking, transportation, entertainment and cable firms have
accumulated massive volumes of data from business
transactions, but have had no way to efficiently manage, store
and analyze these large databases to identify customer buying
patterns, credit card fraud, and other information needed for
business decisions," he added. "Running RDBMS and transaction-
processing software on Cray's open, UNIX-based commercial
parallel processing systems can provide this decision-support
capability."  

Industry analysts predict that the market for commercial
parallel processing systems will grow to the multibillion-
dollar level in this decade, he said.  "Cray Research intends to
be an important player in this market."  He said Cray Research,
the global leader in the scientific-technical supercomputer
market, brings more than a decade of leadership experience
with high-performance, UNIX-based parallel processing
systems to the commercial marketplace.  

The company's main commercial product is the CRAY
SUPERSERVER 6400 (CS6400) system, which began shipping in
February 1994.  This system scales up to 64 SuperSPARC Plus
processors, has set industry records for systems of any kind on
the audited TPC-B transaction processing benchmark and on
SPECrate92 benchmarks run to date.  It has 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 an unannounced large
consumer products firm, according to Carlson. 

Cray Research also has strong momentum in the financial
industry, with recent system orders for financial analytics
applications from Atlantic Portfolio Analytics & Management,
Citibank, the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Association ("Freddie
Mac"), Fuji Capital Markets Corp., Merrill Lynch and another
large Asian-based bank, he said.  

"This is one of those alliances where the sum is greater than
the parts," said Terri Campbell-Hicks. "Cray Research gets a
stronger connection to the mindset of commercial firms and to
business solutions such as Oracle.  Savant is able to pursue
larger customers and larger assignments with Cray's name and
size behind us.  And together, Savant/CraySolutions and Cray
Research will be an attractive combination for commercial
business opportunities."  "The two organizations share a
passion for excellence," added Jim Hicks.

Carlson said Cray Research's experience with the CS6400
product and with the CRAY T3D, the leading MPP system in the
scientific-technical market, will help the company pursue the
commercial marketplace.  "The Savant acquisition adds an
important element.  Savant's extensive consulting experience
brings to Cray Research business solutions that best meet the
needs of the commercial market. Savant is a high-quality,
well-respected commercial consultant," he said.  A partial list
of Savant's clients includes:  BP America, Compaq Computer
Corp., Martin Marietta, Metropolitan Transit Authority of
Houston,  Oracle Corp., Pennzoil Exploration and Production Co.,
and the North Carolina Supercomputer Center.

Savant Systems, formed in 1991, employs about 40 people in
Dallas and other U.S. locations.  Savant is an Oracle Preferred
Systems Integrator.

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

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