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petaflop

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[pe-tuh-flahp] / ˈpɛ təˌflɑp /

noun

  • petaflops
    plural
  1. Computers, Mathematics. one quadrillion flops.


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To support these capabilities, the top-tier configuration of the Surface Laptop Ultra boasts 128 gigabytes of unified memory and 1 petaflop of AI processing power.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026

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

A petaflop is a unit of measuring computer performance that translates to 1,000,000,000,000,000 calculations per second.

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

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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