petaflop
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A petaflop equals 1,000 trillion calculations per second, a number expressed as 10 to the power of 15.
From Barron's ● Nov. 26, 2025
"Data center build-outs like Alibaba or ByteDance would have the potential to reach petaflop build-outs," said CCS Insight chip analyst Wayne Lam said.
From Reuters ● Oct. 7, 2022
But even China’s 93 petaflop machine is slower than the supercomputer that the U.S.,
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2017
Then, this October, another Chinese supercomputer, the Sunway Bluelight MPP, broke the petaflop barrier — a quadrillion calculations per second — putting it among the world’s 20 fastest computers.
From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2011
It was planned to run at sustained speeds of at least a thousand trillion operations a second, a measure known as a petaflop and a standard for speed that had long been sought.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 8, 2011
Named Coatlicue, after a goddess in Aztec mythology representing the source of power and life, the computer will have a processing capacity of 314 petaflops.
From Barron's ● Nov. 26, 2025
Running at 200 petaflops, or 200,000 trillion calculations per second, Summit is about eight times faster than its predecessor supercomputer.
From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2023
The rules define a supercomputer as any system with 100 or more petaflops of so-called double precision computing power, or 200-plus petaflops of single precision computing power, within a 41,600 cubic feet area.
From Reuters ● Oct. 7, 2022
The speed of his servers in petaflops Won’t matter when Zuckerberg’s Meta flops.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 24, 2021
At 200 petaflops, the new machine achieves more than twice the speed of the leading supercomputer in November, when the last Top 500 list was published.
From New York Times ● Jun. 8, 2018
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