- plural of petaflop.
petaflops
Americannoun
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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
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
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