CRAY RESEARCH ANNOUNCES NEW ENTRY-LEVEL
SUPERCOMPUTER SYSTEM

CRAY EL98 Doubles Price Performance of Previous System

EAGAN, Minn., March 30, 1993 -- Cray Research (NYSE:CYR)
today unveiled the CRAY EL98 supercomputer system, an
enhanced successor to the company's strong-selling CRAY
Y-MP EL entry-level supercomputer system.

The new CRAY EL98 system provides twice the peak
performance of the CRAY Y-MP EL configurations at the
same prices, according to Robert Ewald, general manager of
supercomputer operations and executive vice president of
Cray Research.  The new system also offers four times the
central memory capacity of the CRAY Y-MP EL system.
Pricing for a two-processor CRAY EL98 system begins at
$340,000 in the U.S., the same starting price as for a
one-processor CRAY Y-MP EL system, he said.

The new system is available with two, four, six, or eight
processors.  Ewald said the largest configuration contains
eight processors and 4,096 megabytes (512 million words)
of central memory, providing a peak performance of one
gigaflops (billion floating point operations per second).
Larger memory makes it possible to tackle larger problems,
or to solve existing problems faster.

"The EL98 system supports high sustained performance
with a balanced architecture that provides 4.2
gigabytes/second of total memory bandwidth and 1.05
gigabytes/second of I/O (input-output) bandwidth," Ewald
said.

The CRAY EL98 system uses the same chassis as Cray
Research's previous entry-level system, Ewald said.  By
adding or exchanging modules, existing CRAY Y-MP EL
customers can easily upgrade the processing power of their
systems in the field.

In 1992, the company's first full year in the entry-level
supercomputing market, Cray Research booked orders for
130 CRAY Y-MP EL systems, exceeding its original target of
100 orders for the year, according to Ewald.  Cray
Research's entry-level systems have brought in more than
70 new-to-Cray Research customers in the aerospace,
automotive, chemical, financial, construction, utilities, and
electronics industries, as well as universities and
environmental and general research centers.  Cray Research
will continue its long-term commitment to entry-level
products with a project aimed at delivering the
next-generation system in the second half of 1994.  This
entry-level system will be based on aggressive CMOS
integrated circuit technology and provide substantial speed
and performance gains.

Orders for five CRAY EL98 systems have already been
received, Cray Research said.  The new system runs on
standard 200-240 volt, single-phase power and can easily
be installed virtually anywhere, including on ships, at
remote processing sites, or in an office environment.  Both
50 hertz and 60 hertz power are supported to allow
installation worldwide.

The new system is binary-compatible with the company's
full line of CRAY Y-MP, CRAY Y-MP M90, and CRAY C90
supercomputer systems, Ewald said.  As problem complexity
increases, he said, a CRAY EL98 application can readily be
scaled to run on any of the larger systems.  More than 600
leading software applications currently available on these
systems, and on the original CRAY Y-MP EL supercomputer,
will operate without modification on the CRAY EL98
system. The new system runs Cray Research's UNICOS 7
(UNIX-based) operating system, and CF77 Fortran and Cray
Standard C compilers.

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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