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Re:Want even tinier chips? Use a particle accelerator by rowanG077 on Friday March 21, 2025 @07:47AM (#43434500)
That is if your problem is parallelizable. There are a ton of sequential problems that are hard or impossible to break up.
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Re:Want even tinier chips? Use a particle accelerator by voxic11 on Friday March 21, 2025 @09:26AM (#43435397)
What would be an example that the NSA would be interested in?
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Re:Want even tinier chips? Use a particle accelerator by rowanG077 on Friday March 21, 2025 @11:46AM (#43437047)
Well I'm not an NSA engineer but I can imagine complex real-time analysis of streaming data, think processing 400+GbE link data. It quickly becomes too much too store, analysis could impose sequential packet dependencies.
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