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exaflop

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[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

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

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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