The Tera Computer Company was a manufacturer of

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and hardware, founded in 1987 in

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and moved 1988 to

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by James Rottsolk and

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. The company's first supercomputer product, named MTA, featured interleaved multi-threading, i.e. a

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. 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

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in 2000, the company was renamed to

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