teraflop

It's the size of a fingernail called the teraflop chip.

CNN Transcript Feb 12, 2007 2007

A mere 29 days ago IBM announced that it's Blue Gene/L system was the world's fastest computer capable of a sustained speed of 36.01 teraflops a teraflop is a trillion calculations per second.

The Speculist: October 2004 Archives 2003

Designed to handle the ever-growing demands of computer games, today's top GPUs can process information at the rate of nearly two teraflops (a teraflop is a trillion floating-point operations per second).

PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

A petaflop stands for a quadrillion floating-point operations per second, and a teraflop is a trillion calculations a second.

Top Stories - Google News 2009

A teraflop is a trillion But the IBM Roadrunner remained the king with 1.105 petaflops.

TechWeb 2009

A teraflop is a measure of how many floating point operations per second a computer can handle.

GigaOM Network 2008

Nvidia Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. are packing hundreds of specialized calculating engines on new graphics chips to reach a milestone for speed known as a "teraflop," or a trillion scientific operations per second.

Graphics Chips May Play Outside Games 2008

Nvidia today unveiled a system for high-performance computing that uses four graphics processors to provide 1 teraflop of computing power, and multiple units can be easily combined to form a GPU-based computing cluster.

Nvidia Touts New GPU Supercomputer 2009

The HD 4800 is the first mobile GPU according to AMD to break the teraflop barrier.

AMD HD 4000 mobility video cards unveiled at CES - SlipperyBrick.com 2009

In the area of supercomputing, scientists have coupled together commodity hardware and open source software to build complex systems that have drastically reduced the cost per teraflop for supercomputers.

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