teraflop

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Boffins working at or with the ITER reactor once it comes online - it is being constructed at Cadarache in France, and is expected to begin operations in 2018 - will have access to a dedicated 100 teraflop* machine at Jülich.

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  1. noun A measure of computing speed equal to one trillion floating-point operations per second.

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  • The 86,000 computers around the world that run it would give Baker the rough equivalent of a 77-teraflop supercomputer for the November 2006 iteration of CASP a few weeks later.
  • The starship, for whom a single second was a 16-teraflop reverie, spent endless minutes of every day accessing the planetary library. —  F ;SF - vol 098 issue 04 - April 2000
  • A simulation that would take 19 years to run on today's teraflop (1 trillion calculations / second) computers will only require a single week on a petascale computer. —  U.S. Department of Energy - Press Releases
  • Boffins working at or with the ITER reactor once it comes online - it is being constructed at Cadarache in France, and is expected to begin operations in 2018 - will have access to a dedicated 100 teraflop* machine at Jülich. —  Channel Register
  • Intel's teraflop chip to revolutionise PCs "We believe this effort will make it easier for customers with significant design expertise to take advantage of benefits of the Intel Architecture in a manner that allows them to customize the implementation precisely to their needs," said Paul Otellini, Intel president and CEO, in a company statement. —  ITP.net - Front Page
 

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