Cray/Media:  Mardi Larson, 612/683-3538

CRAY RESEARCH ANNOUNCES PLANNED AVAILABILITY OF
ORACLE7 RELEASE 7.1 ON ITS CRAY SUPERSERVER 6400
SYSTEM

BEAVERTON, Ore., June 23, 1994 -- Cray Research Superservers
(CRS), a subsidiary of supercomputer-leader Cray Research,
Inc. (NYSE:CYR), today announced planned availability in August
of Oracle7 Release 7.1 parallel database server on the CRAY
SUPERSERVER(tm) 6400 (CS6400) system, the most scalable
symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) system and the most
powerful SPARC/Solaris-compliant computer offered today. 

The CS6400 system, which began shipping earlier this year, is
priced beginning at under $400,000 (U.S.) and is offered with 4
to 64 processors, 16 gigabytes of central memory, multiple
terabytes of disk storage, and a peak system bandwidth of 1.76
gigabytes per second.  CRS officials said that the Oracle7
Release 7.1 parallel features are extremely important in
harnessing the parallel power of the CS6400 system for the
best performance on commercial database and multimedia
applications.    

Earlier this month, CRS announced the industry's leading
performance on the Transaction Processing Performance
Council TPC-B benchmarks(tm) using the Oracle7 Server
(version 7.0).   A 28-processor configuration CS6400 system
performed 2,025.20 transactions per second (tpsB) at
$1,110.14 per tpsB on the benchmark, the highest recorded
performance on the TPC-B benchmark among all vendors and
architectures in the industry and the first time that the 2,000
tpsB performance barrier has been broken.  The CS6400 system
was recorded as not only the fastest system, but at $1,110 per
tpsB its price/performance ranks first among the top ten
performance leaders on the TPC-B benchmark, CRS officials
said.

The TPC-B performance was audited independently and a full
disclosure report was submitted to the Council for approval.   

CRS is currently conducting customer benchmarks on the
CS6400 system using Release 7.1 of the Oracle7 Server and
said it expects to see even better results.  The benchmarks are
being performed for companies in the telecommunications and
distribution industries.  

According to Jeff Pancottine, director of marketing for CRS,
"we believe that the improved features of Oracle7 Release 7.1
combined with the performance and price/performance of our
new highly scalable SMP line will provide a powerful solution
for today's commercial applications."

The CS6400 system is well-suited for commercial database
applications such as decision support and online transaction
processing.  Systems have been installed at sites in the US,
Europe and Japan for a variety of production and mission-
critical database applications in the telecommunications,
petroleum and utilities industries, as well as for managing the
UK's census data.

CRS, based here, is a subsidiary of Cray Research, which
provides the leading supercomputing tools and services to help
solve customers' most challenging problems.  Data
warehousing, decision support, transaction processing and
multimedia applications which challenge current technologies
are the target for the CS6400 systems. 

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