Etymologies
- From peta- + flop (Wiktionary)
Examples
“A petaflop is the measure of one thousand trillion operations per second or (ops).”
The Washington Post: Supercomputer in China super fast: U.S. computers feel inadequate
“To be sure, there should be an asterisk after the record, for one quadrillion instructions a second, or a petaflop, is a peak number, achieved while calculating just one problem with the aid of extensive hand tuning.”
“One petaflop is the equivalent of 1,000 trillion calculations per second.”
“Roadrunner is the first to top a measure known as a petaflop, meaning that in a single second it can conduct more than one quadrillion of the "floating point" calculations used by scientists.”
“The Oak Ridge lab, a Department of Energy facility, announced Monday that it had upgraded Jaguar since then, and achieved its four-year goal of 1 quadrillion calculations per second - or 1 "petaflop" - six months ahead of schedule.”
“For the nongeek readers out there, (brace yourself because this number is going to sail right past you), a petaflop is a quadrillion float-point operations per second.www. abqmurals.com”
“The article should not have been called The petaflop challenge, but The open source challenge.”
“It was planned to run at sustained speeds of at least a thousand trillion operations a second, a measure known as a petaflop and a standard for speed that had long been sought.”
“A petaflop is a quadrillion or a million billion operations a second.”
“Currently the US Military's best machines are able to perform a petaflop, which is 1,000 trillion (a quadrillion) calculations per second.”
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sionnach And yet it's hard not to think of this as a kind of hugely failed experiment on a mammoth scale, possibly - as whichbe points out - involving animal rights. Jun 9, 2008
john "By breaking the petaflop barrier sooner than had been generally expected, the United States’ supercomputer industry has been able to sustain a pace of continuous performance increases, improving a thousandfold in processing power in 11 years. The next thousandfold goal is the exaflop, which is a quintillion calculations per second, followed by the zettaflop, the yottaflop and the xeraflop."
The New York Times, Military Supercomputer Sets Record, June 9, 2008, by John Markoff Jun 9, 2008
whichbe A failed animal rights advertisement. May 11, 2008
delcj a thousand trillion FLoating point Operations Per second Aug 9, 2007