Definitions For Petaflop

Noun

PETAFLOP (plural PETAFLOPs) (computing) Either of two units of measure of the calculating speed of a computer: a quadrillion (10¹⁵) floating point operation, floating point operations per second. 1992 March 2, Richard Preston, :w:the new yorker, the new yorker, : : ...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 soon afterward. 1,125,899,906,842,624 (2⁵⁰) floating point operations per second. 2012 Fall, Edgar Gabriel, ', slide 20: “”: : [in 2008]

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peta + flop

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