UK METEOROLOGICAL OFFICE ORDERS CRAY RESEARCH
SUPERCOMPUTER

EAGAN, Minn., Feb. 15, 1994 -- Cray Research, Inc. (NYSE:CYR)
today announced that the United Kingdom Meteorological Office
has ordered a CRAY C916 supercomputer. The system is
scheduled to be installed at the organization's Bracknell,
Berkshire, location later this quarter.

With 140 gigabytes of disk storage and 256 million words of
central memory, the fully loaded, 16 CPU system will be six
times faster than each of the two CRAY Y-MP supercomputers
it will replace.  The new supercomputer will be used for
climate prediction research and also to improve operational
weather forecasting.  Purchase of the system is being jointly
funded by the U.K. Ministry of Defence for operational weather
forecasting applications and by the U.K. Department of
Environment for climate research.

The CRAY C916 system will be particularly effective in
advancing the U.K. DOE's Climate Prediction Programme carried
out at the Meteorological Office's Hadley Centre for Climate
Prediction and Research.  The Centre's broad aims are to
improve understanding, monitoring and modelling of the global
climate system and its natural variability in order to detect
and predict climate change.  The increased speed and memory
provided by the CRAY C916 system will accelerate the
researchers' ability to develop, test, improve and maintain a
hierarchy of atmosphere and ocean models, including, in
particular, a state-of-the-art, fully-coupled Atomsphere-
Ocean General Circulation Model.  Refinement of such models is
the main unifying component of the World Climate Research
Programme.

"The Hadley Centre will fully exploit its share of the C916 to
make predictions, up to (the year) 2100, for the climate change
expected to result from increasing concentrations of
greenhouse gases, modified by natural and other anthropogenic
influences, and also to provide a basis for predictions of
regional climate change," said Dr. David Carson, Director,
Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research.

"Cray Research has become the preferred supplier of high
performance systems to the world's leading operational
weather forecasting agencies," said John F. Carlson, Cray
Research Chairman and chief executive officer.  "Our products
continue to prove themselves the best performing systems for
demanding weather forecasting and climate research
applications.  We're pleased the U.K. Meteorological Office has
chosen our top-of-the-line system to continue its work in
these areas."

Currently, Cray Research has more than 500 systems installed
worldwide.  There are 38 Cray Research systems installed at
major weather forecasting and climate research centers in the
U.S., Europe and other regions around the world.

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

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