The Tera Computer Company was a manufacturer of
high-performance computing software
Software is a set of computer programs and associated software documentation, documentation and data (computing), data. This is in contrast to Computer hardware, hardware, from which the system is built and which actually performs the work.
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and
hardware, founded in 1987 in
Washington, D.C. and moved 1988 to
Seattle, Washington by James Rottsolk and
Burton Smith. The company's first supercomputer product, named
MTA, featured interleaved
multi-threading, i.e. a
barrel processor. It also had no data cache, relying instead on switching between threads for latency tolerance, and used a deeply pipelined memory system to handle many simultaneous requests, with address randomization to avoid memory hot spots.
Upon acquiring the Cray Research division of
Silicon Graphics in 2000, the company was renamed to
Cray Inc.
See also
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Heterogeneous Element Processor
References
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Software companies based in Seattle
Computer companies established in 1987
Software companies established in 1987
Technology companies disestablished in 2000
Silicon Graphics
Software companies of the United States
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