exaflop
Americannoun
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The fastest U.S. supercomputer that is capable of doing nuclear weapons simulations called the Frontier at Oak Ridge National Laboratory breached the 1 exaflop performance based on 64 bit double precision format this year.
From Reuters • Nov. 14, 2022
Supercomputers that are five times faster — 1,000 petaflops, or an exaflop — are in the works, both abroad and in the United States.
From New York Times • Jun. 8, 2018
An exaflop is 1,000 petaflops, and there’s no computer that powerful in the world now.
From Slate • Sep. 18, 2017
The computer power required to run such a grand unified theory of the brain would be roughly an exaflop, or 1018 operations per second--hopeless in the 1990s.
From Scientific American • Feb. 22, 2012
The computer power required to run such a grand unified theory of the brain would be roughly an exaflop, or 10 operations per second — hopeless in the 1990s.
From Nature • Feb. 22, 2012
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