Mardi Larson, 612/683-3538


CRAY RESEARCH ANNOUNCES SUPPORT OF OSF'S 
DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT 

Early Access To DCE Available Now

EAGAN, Minn., Nov. 10, 1993 -- Cray Research, Inc. announced
today that it is supporting the Distributed Computing
Environment (DCE) 1.1, a set of technologies from Open
Software Foundation (OSF) that enables distributed computing
and distributed computing application development across
multi-vendor systems.   The initial product from Cray
Research, the Cray DCE Toolkit, is available immediately, the
company said.  

"Cray Research is committed to providing a high level of
connectivity to our system and by supporting DCE, Cray
Research systems will easily integrate into multi-vendor
distributed environments," said Irene Qualters, vice president
of software for Cray Research.   "The DCE software is an
emerging product that provides a complete set of technologies
for distributed computing, including important security
features.  DCE allows users and application developers to take
advantage of a wide variety of resources in heterogeneous
networks in a simple, consistent way."

OSF's DCE is layered software that resides between
computers' operating systems and an application program.  The
software masks the physical complexity of the multi-vendor
networked environment by enabling applications to be
automatically segmented and executed on the system best
suited for processing each segment.    OSF's full suite of DCE
software has two components: Core Services and Extended
Services.   Core Services include features like Remote
Procedure Call (RPC), which distributes application execution,
and Time Service, which synchronizes all computer clocks on
the network.  Extended Service includes the Distributed File
System (DSF), which gives users transparent access to files
stored on remote systems, regardless of their geographic
location.

Cray Research supercomputing systems are typically operated
in a heterogeneous computing environment.  They most often
reside on a network and are accessed from a variety of
workstations and personal computers and are called upon to
interact with servers, mainframes, storage systems and other
devices on the network. 

The Cray DCE Toolkit provides Cray Research supercomputer
users early access to the DCE distributed computing
environment and includes the client implementation of Core
Services, Qualters said.  

"With the early access provided by the Cray DCE Toolkit, our
users can use their Cray Research systems as a client when
building or running a DCE application," she said, noting that the
full suite of DCE software, including DFS, will be available in
mid 1994. 

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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