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CRAY RESEARCH SUPERSERVERS RECEIVES ORDER FOR NEW
SPARC SUPERSERVER SYSTEM

SICAN In Germany Targeting Electronic Design

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 25, 1993 -- Cray Research Superservers
(CRS), a subsidiary of Cray Research, Inc. (NYSE:CYR),
announced today that German electronics firm SICAN, based in
Hannover, has ordered and is scheduled to receive a CRAY
SUPERSERVER 6400 (CS6400) system in the first quarter of
1994.  

The CS6400 system is available with four to 64 SPARC
processors and has a U.S. list price beginning at under
$400,000.  SICAN will initially receive a 20-processor system
that will be upgraded later in 1994 to a 48-processor system. 
Terms were not disclosed. 

SICAN provides design services for German and U.S. based
industries that use Applications Specific Integrate Circuits
(ASICS) and full custom designs.  The CS6400 system will be
used for highly scalar Electronic Computer-Aided Design
(ECAD) applications, as well as for data management.

"We are targeting the CS6400 for a number of electronic
design codes including commercially available programs and
those we've developed in-house," said Prof. Hans Weinerth,
chairman and chief executive officer for SICAN.  "The CS6400
is an outstanding option for us since most of our codes now run
on our more than 50 Sun systems.   We know that these same
codes will run without recompilation on the CS6400, which
will provide a central, powerful and cost-effective resource
for our many desktop Sun users.  In effect, the CS6400 allows
us to upgrade each of our workstations with one single
purchase."

The CS6400 runs the Solaris operating environment and is
binary compatible with the full line of workstations and
servers from Sun Microsystems, Inc.  

ECAD is a key targeted application for the new CS6400 system. 
According to Martin Buchanan, general manager and president
of CRS, his organization is in discussions with key independent
ECAD software vendors to provide important programs on the
powerful CS6400 platform. 

"We are very proud to provide SICAN with the CS6400 system,"
said Buchanan.  "This sale signals CRS' entry into the
electronics industry and we expect other electronics,
microelectronics and semiconductor companies to follow
SICAN's lead.   The CS6400 takes advantage of all the ECAD
application software developed for SPARC/Solaris-compliant
platforms, as well as provides powerful data management
solutions."

CRS is dedicated to creating the world's leading
SPARC/Solaris-compliant computer systems. 

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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