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petaflops

petaflops is the plural of petaflop.

Meaning of petaflop

Noun

petaflop (plural petaflops)

  1. a quadrillion (10¹⁵) floating point operations per second.
    • ...a better machine is a petaflop machine. A petaflop is a quadrillion flops, a quadrillion floating-point operations per second, so a petaflop machine is a thousand times as fast as a teraflop machine, or a million times as fast as a Cray Y-MP8. The petaflop machine will exist by the year 2000, or...1992 March 2, Richard Preston, “The Mountains of Pi”, in The New Yorker
  2. 1,125,899,906,842,624 (2⁵⁰) floating point operations per second.
    • First computer to surpass the 1 Petaflop (2⁵⁰ FLOPS) barrier [in 2008]2012 Fall, Edgar Gabriel, COSC 6374 — Parallel Computation: Introduction and Organizational Issues, slide 20: “IBM Roadrunner”

Questions about petaflops

What is petaflops the plural of?
Petaflops is the plural of petaflop.

Words near petaflops in the dictionary

  1. petabits
  2. petabyte
  3. petabytes
  4. Petac
  5. petaflop
  6. petaflops
  7. petagram
  8. petagramme
  9. petagrammes
  10. petagrams
  11. Petah Tikva

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