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exaflop

American  
[ek-suh-flahp] / ˈɛk səˌflɑp /

noun

  • exaflops
    plural
  1. Computers, Mathematics. one quintillion flops.


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The $500 million contract called for Intel and partners to deliver a computer with so-called exaflop performance, or the ability to perform 1 quintillion - or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 - calculations per second.

From Reuters ● Aug. 24, 2021

An exaflop is 1,000 petaflops, and there’s no computer that powerful in the world now.

From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2017

Dr. Palem says the technologies used to build current supercomputers will be too costly to create a computer capable of an exaflop — a billion billion calculations per second.

From New York Times ● May 11, 2015

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

Even though only partially installed, Aurora has already weighed in as the world’s second most powerful computer and should soon top out at more than 2 exaflops.

From Science Magazine ● Nov. 16, 2023

The system, called Israel-1, is expected to deliver performance of up to eight exaflops of AI computing to make it one of the world's fastest AI supercomputers.

From Reuters ● May 29, 2023

The supercomputer, named Eos, will be built using the Hopper architecture and contain some 4,600 H100 GPUs to offer 18.4 exaflops of “AI performance.”

From The Verge ● Mar. 22, 2022

Intel said the computer will exceed 2 exaflops, meaning the ability to perform 2 quintillion - or 2,000,000,000,000,000,000 - calculations per second.

From Reuters ● Oct. 27, 2021

The simplest definition is a computer that can process a specific set of linear-algebra equations at a rate of 1 exaflops — equivalent to 1,000 petaflops.

From Nature

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