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petaflops

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[pe-tuh-flahps] / ˈpɛ təˌflɑps /

noun

  1. Computers. a measure of computer speed, equal to one quadrillion floating-point operations per second.


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Pegaso, a privately-owned Brazilian computer, is currently rated the most powerful in Latin America with 42 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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