Tera Computer Company
| Type | Public |
|---|---|
| Nasdaq: TERA | |
| Industry | Manufacturing |
| Founded | 1987 |
| Founders | James Rottsolk Burton Smith |
| Defunct | 2000 |
| Fate | Renamed as Cray Inc. |
| 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 its 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
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ Cray Inc., History Archived 2014-07-12 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "Multi-processor Performance on the Tera MTA". 1999. Archived from the original on 2012-02-22.
- ↑ "SDSC Headlines".
- ↑ "Tera Goes to Cadence for Help with Cmos Supercomputer Chip". 15 April 1997.
- ↑ "Supercomputer maker to buy Cray, change name". cnet news. 2000.
- ↑ "Tera Computer buys Cray from SGI, readies CMOS processors". 2 March 2000.
- ↑ Miller, Ron (2019-05-17). "HPE is buying Cray for $1.3 billion". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2025-04-06.
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