National Security Agency (NSA) 



The goal of NSA's HPCC Program is to accelerate the development and application of the 

 highest performance computing and communications technologies to meet national security 

 requirements and to contribute to collective progress in the Federal HPCC Program. 



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By integrating processing directly into 

 otherwise standard memory chips fabri- 

 cated at Its Special Processing 

 Laboratory, the Supercomputing 

 Research Center has developed the 

 Terasys workstation, which outperforms 

 one Cray Y-MP processor by 5 to 48 

 times on a set of nine NSA applications. 

 A mature software environment, avail- 

 able for the workstation, makes the sys- 

 tem easy to use. 



In support of this goal, NSA: 



-"Develops algorithms and architectural simulators 

 and testbeds that contribute to a balanced environ- 

 ment of workstations, vector supercomputers, 

 massively parallel computer architectures, and 

 high speed networks. 



^Sponsors and participates in basic and applied 

 research and development of gigabit networking 

 technology. 



J Develops network security and information securi- 

 ty techniques and testbeds appropriate for high 

 speed in-house networking and for interconnection 

 with public networks. 



3 Develops software and hardware technology for 

 highly parallel architectures scalable to sustained 

 teraops performance. 



-I Investigates or develops new technologies in 

 materials science, superconductivity, ultra-high- 

 speed switching and interconnection techniques, 

 networking, and mass storage systems fundamen- 

 tal to increased performance objectives of high 

 performance computing programs. 



NSA participates in al 

 Program as follows. 



five components of the HPCC 



HPCS: Heterogeneous High Performance 

 Computing; Balanced Architectures 



NSA deploys experimental scalable computer capabili- 

 ties, emphasizing interoperability of massively parallel 

 machines in a highly heterogeneous environment of 

 workstations, vector supercomputers, and mass storage 



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