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UK METEOROLOGICAL OFFICE CHOOSES CRAY RESEARCH
SUPERCOMPUTER SYSTEM FOR GLOBAL CLIMATE MODELING AND
WEATHER PREDICTION

EAGAN, Minn., April 22, 1996 -- Cray Research, Inc. (NYSE:CYR)
has been awarded the contract to provide a state-of-the-art
supercomputer system for numerical weather prediction and
global climate modeling at the United Kingdom Meteorological
Office. The procurement was open to all vendors including
Japanese and US suppliers.  A CRAY T3E highly scalable system
is scheduled to be installed in the third quarter at the
customer's head office facility in Bracknell, Berkshire. Other
terms were not disclosed.

According to a UK Meteorological Office news release, the
faster and more efficient computer is required to:

--support the continuing research program into climate change
   issues that is being undertaken by the Hadley Centre for
   Climate Prediction and Research with funding from the UK
   Department of the Environment;

--improve weather forecasting services for the benefit of the
   UK Meteorological Office's customers.
     
In particular, the Hadley Centre will be able to represent the
world's ocean currents with greater resolution. These
currents (such as the Gulf Stream) can markedly influence the
climate, so this will be a useful step in providing more
reliable estimates of future man-made climate change.
     
The new computer will also enable better use of the wide
variety of observations of the atmosphere which are received
every day, so that more timely and more accurate predictions
of the weather can be made.
 
"Cray Research is proud that our supercomputing system has
been selected by the UK Meteorological Office to provide the
vital weather forecasting service and to support the global
climate change studies at the Hadley Centre, which runs some
of the world's most complex global climate simulations
related to real-world issues," said Robert H. Ewald, Cray
Research president and chief operating officer.  "The CRAY T3E
system will be used in a demanding production environment
combining time-critical operational requirements with long-
running research projects."

Cray also won a recent procurement at one of the other three
worldwide major climate centers--the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
Laboratory (NOAA/GFDL), Princeton, New Jersey.  The other
two centers--the Max Planck Institute for
Meteorology/Hamburg, Germany (MPIMH), and the National
Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, Colorado--
also use Cray supercomputers for advanced climate modeling.

Last week Cray announced that the first CRAY T3E system was
installed at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center and is
already running applications in parallel mode.

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

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