Meanings of first supercomputer in English

In 1996, IBM's Deep Blue became the first supercomputer to defeat a chess grandmaster, Garry Kasparov, in a game.

Meanwhile, IBM has moved on to create its first supercomputer in Europe capable of one petaflop, or one thousand trillion operations per second.

Earlier this week, Hawking and some colleagues at Cambridge University in the UK unveiled the world's first supercomputer dedicated exclusively to cosmological research.

Lighter than most gadgets on the market, it was billed as the " first supercomputer you can actually take with on an aeroplane".

And this week, the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) officially plugged in the first supercomputer that uses flash storage rather than good old-fashioned spinning disks.