petaflop
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
petaflop (plural petaflops)
- (computing) Either of two units of measure of the calculating speed of a computer:
- a quadrillion (10¹⁵) floating point operation per second.
- 1992 March 2, Richard Preston, The New Yorker, "The Mountains of Pi" ↗:
- ...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.
- 1992 March 2, Richard Preston, The New Yorker, "The Mountains of Pi" ↗:
- 1,125,899,906,842,624 (2⁵⁰) floating point operations per second.
- 2012 Fall, Edgar Gabriel, [http://www2.cs.uh.edu/~gabriel/courses/cosc6374_f12/ParCo_01_Intro.pdf COSC 6374 — Parallel Computation: Introduction and Organizational Issues], slide 20: “IBM Roadrunner”:
- First computer to surpass the 1 Petaflop (2⁵⁰ FLOPS) barrier [in 2008]
- 2012 Fall, Edgar Gabriel, [http://www2.cs.uh.edu/~gabriel/courses/cosc6374_f12/ParCo_01_Intro.pdf COSC 6374 — Parallel Computation: Introduction and Organizational Issues], slide 20: “IBM Roadrunner”:
- a quadrillion (10¹⁵) floating point operation per second.
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