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We had a Tera MTA (serial #2, IIRC) at SDSC when I worked there. It looked really cool, but I never got to use it. Tera bought Cray Research in 2000 and rename

• linksnapzz 9y ago
  (Hi Keith!) The article is from before they got their funding, the system (well, you know what it looked like, but for the rest of HN) looked like this: https://goo.gl/images/cPJQ89 https://goo.gl/images/cPJQ89 It was more than 2m tall at the top, but the actual computer bits underneath the MTA "wave" case were smaller than people might think. I want to say it was a cube-shaped machined frame holding the CPUs/Memory/IO bits, maybe 3'x3'? I remember there being a smoke detector, what seemed to be a regular household unit, on the inside of the case... IIRC, it was liquid-cooled w/ Fluorinert, and the cpus were on some custom GaAs process...I had to swap the control workstation for it at one point, and to make sure that the serial connection to it was still good I watched over Victor H.'s shoulder as he tipped in. While it was at SDSC, the Tera MTA ran a Tera-customized FreeBSD 3.3 OS. Good times...