Acquistion and Evaluation of a Multi-Threaded, Shared MemorySupercomputer

加州大学圣地亚哥分校（UCSD）和圣地亚哥超级计算机中心（SDSC）提议收购第一个商用MTA系统。Tera MTA多处理器的显著特点是：-高速GaAs处理器，-多线程架构（因此MTA），它应该允许更多的并发性，从而提高处理器效率，-一个可扩展到数百个处理器的互连网络，-共享内存，其方便的编程模型和广泛的适用性，-一个复杂的自动并行化编译器。该系统将向全国的研究人员和教育工作者开放，用于生产计算和计算机科学实验。此外，本地研究人员将从系统和应用的角度评估mtaa的性能。

The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) propose acquisition of the first commercial MTA system. The salient features of the Tera MTA multiprocessors are: -high-speed GaAs processors, -its multi-threaded architecture (hence MTA), which should allow more concurrency and thus higher processor efficiency, -an interconnection network scalable to hundreds of processors, -shared memory with its convenient programming model and broad applicability, -a sophisticated compiler for automatic parallelization. This system will be made accessible to researchers and educators nationwide for production computing and computer science experimentation. In addition, local researchers will evaluate performance of the MTA a from both systems and applications perspectives.