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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Computers routinely operate in a parallel world as they pull up web pages, run email and create documents simultaneously.

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Multiple upgrades to the Aegis system are now progressing in parallel, with missiles, radars and computers all being improved in a series of increasingly capable increments that could one day make Aegis warships vital to defense not only of overseas allies and deployed forces, but also the continental United States.

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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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To crunch heavy loads, Chevron networks its computers into Linux-based clusters with hundreds of processors operating in parallel.

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Back home, they hooked up their cheap computers and hard drives to each other to form a sort of homemade parallel processing system.

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According to Forrester, today's computers use more technologies common to the Whirlwind than any other computer of its time, including parallel data transmission.

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