imMTz 



NSA has used parallel processing to 

 greatly accelerate workstation perfor- 

 mance. Designed and fabricated at ttie 

 SRC. tfiis board employs 32 Field 

 Programmable Gate Arrays whicf) are 

 custom programmed for each applica- 

 tion. This customization and paralleliza- 

 tion yields speedups of 100 to 1.000 

 times the already impressive worksta- 

 tion performance. (Field Programmable 

 Gate Arrays are also described on 

 pages 154-155 in the Case Studies sec- 

 tion.) 



applicable to both national security and public sector 

 communities. 



BRHR 



Initiate collaborative and university research efforts in 

 performance modeling of high performance computing 

 systems for generic problem domains. 



Explore innovative parallel computer and network archi- 

 tectures. 



Investigate new technologies in material sciences, 

 superconductivity, optoelectronics, ultra-high-speed 

 interconnection, and switching. 



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