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. 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 Heterogeneous Element Processor References Software companies based in Seattle Computer companies established in 1987 Computer companies disestablished in 2000 Software companies established in 1987 Silicon Graphics Defunct software companies of the United States Defunct computer companies of the United States