Yet another note described tests of a new supercomputer, complete with parallel processors.

A new supercomputer from Thinking Machines will be the first in a new wave.

These approximations have so many digits that they are no longer of any practical use, except for testing new supercomputers.

Business sources said the new supercomputer would cost about $10 million.

Such a public exhibition of a new supercomputer "is a very unusual thing," an Education Ministry official acknowledged.

During the process of acceptance testing, a new supercomputer would typically run diagnostic programs at night, looking for problems.

The new Japanese supercomputer will have both scientific and practical applications.

Cray, based in Seattle, is expected by the end of the year to begin selling its newest supercomputer.

But significant challenges must be overcome to create these new supercomputers.

Soon afterwards, the team secured a sponsorship deal with Lenovo who built the team's new supercomputer.