Cray Research:  Mardi Larson, 612/683-3538
EMASS:          Kim Todora, EMASS Storage Systems
                Solutions From E-Systems, 214/205-8621

E-SYSTEMS EMASS BUSINESS UNIT AND CRAY RESEARCH
ENTER RESELLER AGREEMENT

Powerful Computing, Storage Solutions Enable
Users to Tackle New Challenges

DALLAS and EAGAN, Minn., Nov. 9, 1993 -- EMASS Storage
Systems Solutions, an E-Systems commercial products
business unit, and Cray Research, Inc., the high-performance
computing leader, have entered a joint marketing and reseller
agreement for the EMASS massive data storage devices, the
companies announced today.  

The agreement calls for the two companies to jointly market
and sell the EMASS mass storage products worldwide,
including in Japan.  Primary target markets include Cray
Research's current customer base in which there is a growing
demand for data storage systems that can keep pace with the
industry-leading processing power of Cray Research
supercomputing systems. 

"As processing speeds continue to dramatically increase, our
worldwide user base is able to tackle larger and larger
problems that involve, in some cases, terabytes of data," said
Bob Ewald, executive vice president of Cray Research and
general manager of supercomputer operations.  "Storing,
managing and quickly retrieving the huge amounts of data
associated with these large problems are some of our
customers' most important concerns today.  EMASS storage
products directly connected to our supercomputers will
provide our users with unsurpassed storage capacity and
retrieval speed."

"Cray Research was a logical choice for EMASS as we
aggressively establish ourselves with key suppliers of high-
performance computing," said Mike Allred, E-Systems vice
president of the EMASS business unit.  "Users that get
gigaflops processing speeds from Cray Research
supercomputers now have terabytes of data storage capacity
with EMASS products."

As part of the agreement, Cray Research will resell the EMASS
DataLibrary, DataTower mass storage devices and the ER90
tape drive, as well as associated data management software
products.   The DataLibrary is the world's largest automated
mass storage device, storing up to 10,000 terabytes of
information.   The DataTower, comparable in size to a
telephone booth and smaller than any existing massive data
archive, has a storage capacity of 5.7 terabytes.  The ER90
tape drive delivers data to users at the fastest known speed
for data transfer: 15 megabytes per second. 
  
These devices can be directly connected to the full line of Cray
Research systems from the CRAY EL series systems to the
CRAY C916 system, which is capable of 16 gigaflops (16
billion floating-point operations per second).   The mass
storage products also are compatible with the CRAY T3D
system, Cray Research's first massively parallel processing
supercomputer, which provides peak performance of 300
gigaflops.  

The powerful combination is appropriate for the world's
largest computing installations in the petroleum, financial
services, research, government and aerospace markets.  In the
petroleum industry, for example, a comprehensive 3-D seismic
survey can take six to 12 months to complete.  With the Cray
Research/EMASS solution, it is expected to take a fraction of
that time because the data will be more accessible than ever
before. 

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

E-Systems commercial business unit, EMASS, is a developer
and supplier of massive -- up to 10,000 terabytes -- data
storage products for broad commercial applications in the
petroleum, scientific and technical and financial services
market. 

E-Systems (NYSE:ESY), with annual sales of more than $2
billion, is a major worldwide developer and producer of
electronic systems and products in the areas of high-speed
data processing, intelligence, reconnaissance and surveillance
systems, command and control, specialized aircraft
maintenance and modification, guidance, navigation and
control, communications and data storage systems. 

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