Tera Computer Company

Tera Computer Company
Company typePublic
Nasdaq: TERA
IndustryManufacturing
Founded1987; 37 years ago (1987)
FoundersJames Rottsolk
Burton Smith
Defunct2000; 24 years ago (2000)
FateRenamed as Cray Inc.
HeadquartersSeattle, Washington
ProductsComputer software and hardware

The Tera Computer Company was a manufacturer of high-performance computing software and hardware, founded in 1987 in Washington, D.C., and moved 1988 to Seattle, Washington, by James Rottsolk and Burton Smith.[1] 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.[2]

The company was listed on NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "TERA".[3]

In 1997, Tera Computer went to San Jose, California-based Cadence Design Systems Inc to develop microprocessors for their use in CMOS technology. Unisys manufactured Tera's gallium arsenide CPU.[4]

Upon acquiring the Cray Research division of Silicon Graphics in 2000, the company was renamed to Cray Inc.[5][6]

See also

References

  1. ^ Cray Inc., History Archived 2014-07-12 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ "Multi-processor Performance on the Tera MTA". 1999. Archived from the original on 2012-02-22.
  3. ^ https://www.sdsc.edu/News%20Items/PR042798.html
  4. ^ https://www.techmonitor.ai/technology/tera_goes_to_cadence_for_help_with_cmos_supercomputer_chip_1/
  5. ^ "Supercomputer maker to buy Cray, change name". cnet news. 2000.
  6. ^ https://www.eetimes.com/tera-computer-buys-cray-from-sgi-readies-cmos-processors/
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