Teraflop


noun
1.
(computing) a measure of processing speed, consisting of a thousand billion floating-point operations a second
teraflop
(těr’ə-flŏp’)
A measure of computing speed equal to one trillion floating-point operations per second.

unit
10^12 flops.
Intel beat Hitachi to the record of 1.06 teraflops, on 04 Dec 1996, unofficially in Beverton, Oregon, using 7264 Pentium Pro chips.
(1997-07-21)

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