- ETA10 (1982): A supercomputer that was built by ETA Systems and was designed for scientific and engineering applications, and it had a processing speed of 1 gigaflop.
These early supercomputers were used for a variety of applications, including weather forecasting, fluid dynamics, and molecular dynamics. They were also used for scientific research, such as simulating the behavior of subatomic particles and modeling the behavior of complex systems.
It's worth noting that the term "supercomputer" was not widely used until the 1980s, and it was often used to describe computers that were significantly faster than the average computer of the time. Today, the term "supercomputer" is often used to describe computers that are capable of performing at least 1 petaflop (1 million billion floating-point operations per second), although some sources may use different criteria to define a supercomputer.