Neural networks and massively parallel computers, which can crunch huge amounts of data, dig out characteristics which are common to good customers.

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This massively parallel processing horsepower transforms laptop computers into mobile super computers.

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Recently the concept of massively parallel processing has regained popularity as relatively inexpensive computers and large of amounts of memory can be combined to solve problems not previously able to be tackled.

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