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
Blue Waters’ target is to run at a petaflop for sustained periods of time and run on much more complex problems than currently possible, Melchi said.
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
It can do mathematical calculations at the rate of 200 quadrillion per second, or 200 petaflops.
From New York Times ● Jun. 8, 2018
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