Petaflop
//ˈpɛtəflɒp//
"Petaflop" in a Sentence (2 examples)
...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.
First computer to surpass the 1 Petaflop (2⁵⁰ FLOPS) barrier [in 2008]
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