[rowanG077]

That is if your problem is parallelizable. There are a ton of sequential problems that are hard or impossible to break up.

[voxic11]

What would be an example that the NSA would be interested in?

[rowanG077]

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.