teraflop
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Origin of teraflop
C20: from tera- + flo ( ating ) p ( oint )
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The centerpiece of Bromley's program is a research plan to build by 1996 a so-called teraflop machine, a computer capable of performing 1 trillion scientific calculations a second.
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Most analysts believe that the first teraflop machines will be purchased when their price drops below $50 million, sometime in the mid-1990s.
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By 1995, NEC, Fujitsu and Hitachi could be marketing their own teraflop machines.
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"We could build a teraflop machine today," boasts Hillis.
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From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Steele, Guy L.
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