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PITTSBURGH SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER FIRST IN LINE TO
RECEIVE FUTURE HIGH-END SCALABLE SYSTEM FROM CRAY
RESEARCH

EAGAN, Minn., Nov. 1, 1995 -- Cray Research, Inc. (NYSE:CYR)
announced today that the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center is
slated to receive the first high-end version of the next-
generation Cray(R) scalable parallel system, code-named T3E. 
Terms of the order were not disclosed.

Due to start shipping in early 1996, the T3E code-named
product line is the compatible successor to the current CRAY
T3D(tm) series, which in 1994 made Cray the revenue-leader in
the technical market for enterprise-level scalable parallel
systems.  The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center is upgrading
from a CRAY T3D system.

The T3E will be faster and have more memory than the T3D,
said  Ralph Roskies and Michael Levine, PSC scientific
directors, who expect that performance on applications
running at PSC will improve three to four times.  This will
benefit the scientific community nationwide, they said, by
providing a powerful new tool that will make a difference on 
important problems, including turbulence, cosmology, drug
design, weather forecasting and global climate change. 

In conjunction with the company's third-quarter financial
report, Cray said that as of September 30 it had received about
$90 million in advance orders for the next-generation system.  
"This is ahead of the advance order pace for the successful
CRAY T3D series," according to Cray chairman and CEO J.
Phillip Samper.  "We're pleased that a leading research
organization like the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center has
again chosen to offer its large user community an advanced
Cray Research system."

Samper said the next-generation product will be offered in a
wide range of sizes and price points, including both air- and
liquid-cooled versions.  Detailed product information will be
disclosed when the product is announced later this year, he
said.

Cray Research provides the leading high-performance
computing tools and services to help solve customers' most
challenging problems.

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