Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A measure of computing speed equal to one billion floating-point operations per second.
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- noun Plural form of
gigaflop .
Etymologies
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Examples
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If so, you ‚ Äôre definitely not alone, and Calvin College student Tim Brom has the cure: a built-from-scratch 26.25 gigaflops supercomputer that runs off one standard wall outlet, will fit on your desk, and cost less than $2500 to build in 2006 (building a copy today would cost only $1256).
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If so, you ‚ Äôre definitely not alone, and Calvin College student Tim Brom has the cure: a built-from-scratch 26.25 gigaflops supercomputer that runs off one standard wall outlet, will fit on your desk, and cost less than $2500 to build in 2006 (building a copy today would cost only $1256).
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If so, you’re definitely not alone, and Calvin College student Tim Brom has the cure: a built-from-scratch 26.25 gigaflops supercomputer that runs off one standard wall outlet, will fit on your desk, and cost less than $2500 to build in 2006 building a copy today would cost only $1256.
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"Even with two low-end cards, which offer 50 gigaflops (per second computing speed), you get 100 gigaflops when you put two graphics cards together."
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The performance measures they provided are measured in gigaflops, or billions of calculations per second.
Supercomputing's Next Revolution Paul Tulloch 2006
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"Even with two low-end cards, which offer 50 gigaflops (per second computing speed), you get 100 gigaflops when you put two graphics cards together."
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By lashing a cluster of 32 blade servers together with an inexpensive switch, any business can harness the kind of power — more than 150 gigaflops — once reserved for government agencies and aerospace giants.
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The new chip is a parallel processor capable of performing 25 billion floating-point operations per second, or 25 gigaflops.
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An ordinary desktop PC outfitted with six PCI cards, each containing four of the chips, would perform at about 600 gigaflops (or more than half a teraflop).
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Looking strictly at raw gigaflops, the HD 3000 should be roughly comparable to the 320M.
Ars Technica Chris Foresman 2011
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