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The NSA's new High Performance Computing Center, slated to be complete by December 2015, will be designed to with energy efficiency, security, and lots of "state-of-the-art" computing horsepower in mind, according to unclassified specs found in the documents, which detail numerous military construction project budgets, including several NSA efforts. NSA has long been a supercomputing powerhouse. The secretive signals intelligence agency purchased the first Cray supercomputer in 1976, and even keeps two Cray supercomputers on display at its National Cryptologic Museum alongside spy gadgets such as centuries-old code books and a working German Enigma machine from World War II. The specs for the new supercomputing center read much like the NSA is building a massive data center, with typical requirements for raised flooring, chilled water systems, fire suppression, and alarms. Power requirements are 60 megawatts, equivalent to the power requirements of Microsoft's recently completed 700,000 square foot ... (Read Full Article)