From: "E. ALLEN SMITH" <EALLENSMITH@ocelot.Rutgers.EDU>
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1995 06:44:51 +0800
To: tcmay@got.net
Subject: Re: What ever happened to... Cray Comp/NSA co-development
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From: tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May)

>First, half a million chips is not that big a deal...the Connection Machine
had up to 64,000. Very few cryptographic problems of interest to us will be
affected by a mere factor of a million or so.
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	While the cryptographic stuff isn't much of a problem, how about text
analysis of multiple sources, possibly via a neural net simulation (which IIRC
a massively parallel machine is nice for)?
	-Allen