We’re now getting blow-by-blow accounts of the milestones reached by Seattle, Washington-based Tera Computer Co as it struggles to bring its Multi-Threaded Architecture MTA supercomputer to market after ten years of development and funding. Tera reveals that it has now run its first program on an MTA system. It hopes to deliver the first box this year to the San Diego Supercomputer Center. The purchase was funded by a $4.2m grant to UC San Diego by the National Science Foundation. UC San Diego also has a $1.9m, 18 month award from DAPPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, to implement, optimize, and evaluate defense-related applications on the Tera machine.
