Company:Tera Computer Company
| Type | Public |
|---|---|
| NASDAQ: TERA | |
| Industry | Manufacturing |
| Fate | Renamed as Cray Inc. |
| Founded | 1987 |
| Founders | James Rottsolk Burton Smith |
| Defunct | 2000 |
| Headquarters | Seattle, Washington |
| Products | Computer 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]
In 2019, Cray Inc. was acquired by Hewlett Packard Enterprise for $1.3 billion.[7]
See also
References
- ↑ Cray Inc., History
- ↑ "Multi-processor Performance on the Tera MTA". 1999. Archived from the original on 2012-02-22. https://web.archive.org/web/20120222015429/http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~carter/Papers/tera2.html.
- ↑ "SDSC Headlines". https://www.sdsc.edu/News%20Items/PR042798.html.
- ↑ "Tera Goes to Cadence for Help with Cmos Supercomputer Chip". 15 April 1997. https://www.techmonitor.ai/technology/tera_goes_to_cadence_for_help_with_cmos_supercomputer_chip_1/.
- ↑ "Supercomputer maker to buy Cray, change name". cnet news. 2000. http://news.cnet.com/2100-1001-237517.html.
- ↑ "Tera Computer buys Cray from SGI, readies CMOS processors". 2 March 2000. https://www.eetimes.com/tera-computer-buys-cray-from-sgi-readies-cmos-processors/.
- ↑ Miller, Ron (2019-05-17). "HPE is buying Cray for $1.3 billion". TechCrunch. https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/17/hpe-is-buying-cray-for-1-3-billion/.
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