Exaflop

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    10¹⁸ floating-point operations per second.

    "The next thousandfold goal is the exaflop, which is a quintillion calculations per second, followed by the zettaflop, the yottaflop and the xeraflop."

  2. 2
    (computer science) a unit for measuring the speed of a computer system, equal to one quintillion floating-point operations a second. wordnet

Synonyms

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eflops

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"The next thousandfold goal is the exaflop, which is a quintillion calculations per second, followed by the zettaflop, the yottaflop and the xeraflop."

Etymology

From exa- + FLOP.

Related phrases

floating point

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