English Dictionary

petaflop

/ˈpɛtəflɒp/

noun

a quadrillion (10¹⁵) floating point operations per second. / 1,125,899,906,842,624 (2⁵⁰) floating point operations per second.

The supercomputer can perform calculations at a speed of one petaflop.

意味（1）

a quadrillion (10¹⁵) floating point operations per second.

...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.

意味（2）

1,125,899,906,842,624 (2⁵⁰) floating point operations per second.

First computer to surpass the 1 Petaflop (2⁵⁰ FLOPS) barrier [in 2008]