Cray/Media:         Mardi Larson, 612/683-3538 or 
                    Steve Conway, 612/683-7133
Cray/Financial:     Brad Allen, 612/683-7395


BANK OF AMERICA CHOOSES CRAY ENTERPRISE SERVERS
FOR DATA WAREHOUSING, DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS

EAGAN, Minn., June 21, 1995 -- Bank of America, San Francisco,
the second-largest U.S. bank holding company, has ordered and
installed three CRAY SUPERSERVER 6400 (CS6400) enterprise
servers at its Bank of America Systems Engineering (BASE)
Division in Concord, Calif., and the Bank's Production Data
Center in San Francisco, Cray Research, Inc. (NYSE: CYR)
announced today.  The systems will be used to run large data
warehousing and Decision Support Systems (DSS) applications. 
The computers were procured under a competitive bid.  Terms
were not disclosed. 

The production systems will involve a large data warehouse
expected to grow to more than 150 gigabytes (billion bytes)
within the year.  One of the CS6400 production systems
supports hundreds of PC users and will store and manage the
data warehouse. 

According to J. Phillip Samper, Cray's new chairman and chief
executive officer, "Obtaining this important business is
further proof that Cray Research's business systems division
has arrived in the commercial open systems market.  We expect
to announce additional key wins in the near future."

Designed to be the world's most powerful enterprise data
server, the CS6400 system can handle thousands of users and
more than 2,000 transactions per second.  The system has
achieved industry-leading performance on standard benchmarks
and is a price/performance leader as well.  Among many other
installations, the CS6400 has also been selected to run the
United Kingdom census database, International Monetary Fund
(IMF) financial statistics, and complex data work at Atlantic
Richfield Co. (ARCO); Electricite de France, the world's largest
public utility; Citibank's global derivatives business; and
Churchill Insurance's On-Line Transaction Processing (OLTP)
applications for its insurance telesales business.   

The CS6400 system begins at under $400,000 (U.S.), can be
configured with up to 64 SuperSPARC processors, up to 16
gigabytes of shared memory, 64 I/O (input/output) channels and
more than five terabytes (trillion bytes) of online disk storage. 
The systems have the industry's fastest bandwidth of 1.76
gigabytes per second.   

Cray Research provides the leading high-performance
computing tools and services to help solve customers' most
challenging problems.   Data warehousing, decision support,
transaction processing and multimedia applications are the
target for Cray Research's new line of highly scalable
enterprise servers.

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