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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