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Conference on High Performance Networking and Computing archive
Proceedings of the 1997 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing (CDROM) table of contents

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Pages: 1 - 16

Year of Publication: 1997

ISBN:0-89791-985-8

Authors

Gail Alverson	Tera Computer Company
Preston Briggs	Tera Computer Company
Susan Coatney	Tera Computer Company
Simon Kahan	Tera Computer Company
Richard Korry	Tera Computer Company

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IEEE-CS\DATC : IEEE Computer Society
SIGARCH: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

The development of Tera's MTA system was unusual. It respected the need for fast hardware and large shared memory, facilitating execution of the most demanding parallel application programs. But at the same time, it met the need for a clean machine model enabling calculated compiler optimizations and easy programming; and the need for novel architectural features necessary to support fast parallel system software. From its inception, system and application needs have molded the MTA architecture. The result is a system that offers high performance and ease of programming by virtue not only of fast physical hardware and flat shared memory, but also of the streamlined software systems that well utilize the features of the architecture intended to support them.

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Collaborative Colleagues:

Gail Alverson: colleagues

Preston Briggs: colleagues

Susan Coatney: colleagues

Simon Kahan: colleagues

Richard Korry: colleagues

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