SPANISH METEOROLOGICAL CENTER ORDERS
FIRST CRAY RESEARCH SUPERCOMPUTER

Center to Receive New Smaller Version of
Industry-leading C90 Supercomputer

EAGAN, Minn., March 25, 1993 -- Cray Research announced
today that the Instituto Nacional de Meteoreolgia (INM),
Spain's weather forecasting and climate research center,
has ordered a CRAY C94 system to be installed this summer
at INM in Madrid.   The new CRAY C94 system was unveiled
earlier this week and is the four-processor model in the
newly expanded CRAY C90 series, which now includes
systems with one to 16 processors based on Cray
Research's industry-leading CRAY C90 technology, the
company said.  Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

INM is the first weather organization to install one of the
downsized systems in the new series, Cray Research
representatives said.   Two environmental agencies
previously ordered and installed the top-of-the-line 16-
processor CRAY C916 system: the European Centre for
Medium-range Weather Forecasts in Reading, England, and
the U.S. Navy Fleet Numerical Oceanography Center,
Monterey, Calif.

"This is a momentous occasion for us," said Sr. Tomas
Garcia Meras, manager of INM's computing center.  "We are
receiving Cray Research's newest technology, and with this
powerful new system we are going to improve our weather
forecasting and climate research, both of which are
extremely compute intensive and require a supercomputer."


According to Meras, INM chose the CRAY C94 system for its
impressive benchmarks, as well as its compatibility with
the supercomputers used by other weather bureaus
throughout the world.  The CRAY C90 series is compatible
with all Cray Research previous supercomputers.  Currently,
Cray Research has more than 350 systems installed
worldwide, of which 30 systems are located at 28 weather
forecasting and climate research agencies.

"The global environmental community is a very interrelated
group and there is a great deal of scientific exchange of
numerical models, algorithms, techniques and data," Meras
said.  "Thus, there's great value in possessing
supercomputer resources compatible with the other centers
around the world."

According to John Carlson, Cray Research chairman and
chief executive officer, "With 16 orders for the high-end
system, the CRAY C916 supercomputer's industry-leading
performance created strong customer demand for smaller
versions of the product.  We are very pleased to be able to
bring this leading-edge technology to a broader user base
and to see distinguished organizations like INM join the
growing number of environmental research centers that use
Cray Research technology."

The CRAY C90-series systems feature the same one-
gigaflops CPU as the original CRAY C916 system.  The
systems also have the newest, fastest memory technology
available -- four-megabit SRAM (static random access
memory).  As a result, the smaller systems in the new
series are offered with up to twice the memory capacity of
their counterparts in the earlier CRAY Y-MP line.  Larger
memory makes it possible to tackle larger problems, or to
solve existing problems faster.

Cray Research creates the most powerful, highest-quality
computational tools for solving the world's most
challenging scientific and industrial problems.

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