I mentioned the MTA in a comment on that thread. I assume somebody picked up on that, or independently knew about the architecture.

Somebody tried to get me to be a friendly user of MTA when it first came out. I took a look- they pitched it as useful for graph processing rather than simulations- and concluded that the architecture was not going to be competitive with intel in the long term, and ignored it.

Yes, agreed, that's probably why this was posted.