The MTA is also substantially easier to program than other types of parallel computers, which should facilitate its broader use in general purpose computing. Cray T3E - targeted at the environmental science, academic research, and national research laboratory markets. Cray SV1 - targeted at Cray's installed base of vector supercomputing customers. The SV1 is a vector supercomputer that is compatible with Cray's earlier Cray J90, YMP, C90 and T90 product lines. Cray SV2 - targeted for release in late 2002, Cray SV2 development is considered essential to U.S. national security interests and is partially funded by the Department of Defense.
Plans call for the system to scale to peak performances of multiple tens of teraflops.
One teraflop is equivalent to a trillion calculations per second. The combination of Cray, Inc. product offerings will be designed to enable market growth by providing performance on software programs that today are often limited by existing computing hardware capacity, and by offering customers product solutions tailored to address customer problems. Applications software is crucial to commercial sales. The architectural breakthrough of the Tera MTA system simplifies the problems of parallel programming, making it possible to host applications of critical importance to industry that, until now, have resisted effective parallelization.