Vector's programs are still "too sensitive to discuss, " say former officials, who voice concern that the State Department has provided general support funds which Vector can use for whatever purpose it chooses .

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The software was written for vector arithmetic, which is proving useful now that Intel has support for it with Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) and SSE instructions which are available on the latest generation of its Sandy Bridge processors.

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Its advanced suite of flash management tools deliver advanced drive endurance and data reliability in support of 100GB host writes per day for 5 years ensuring that Vector PCIe SSDs can be reliably used in a wide range of high performance computing environments over an extended lifetime.

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According to Tsunekawa, "Inkling's support of raster based applications such as Adobe Photoshop, as well as vector based applications such as Illustrator and Autodesk Sketchbook Designer, will provide users with options for incorporating their preliminary sketches into further developed work".

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