NSA Outs Top-Secret Report That Missed the Future of Supercomputing

NSA Outs Top-Secret Report That Missed the Future of Supercomputing: The mid-1990s were dark years for the National Security Agency. Its budget had been slashed, top technical talent was seeping out, and the company that made its supercomputers was in trouble.

You can get a sense of the agency's worry -- and its myopia -- in a top-secret report on the state of supercomputing that the ...