teraflop
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teraflops
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Origin of teraflop
C20: from tera- + flo ( ating ) p ( oint )
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The centerpiece of Bromley's program is a research plan to build by 1996 a so-called teraflop machine, a computer capable of performing 1 trillion scientific calculations a second.
From Time Magazine Archive
By 1995, NEC, Fujitsu and Hitachi could be marketing their own teraflop machines.
From Time Magazine Archive
Most analysts believe that the first teraflop machines will be purchased when their price drops below $50 million, sometime in the mid-1990s.
From Time Magazine Archive
"We could build a teraflop machine today," boasts Hillis.
From Time Magazine Archive
Node:teraflop club, Next:terminak, Previous:tera-, Up:= T = teraflop club /te'r*-flop kluhb/ n.
From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Guy L. Steele
The larger A50 steps up to a dual-slot form factor, 4.8 teraflops of graphical power, eight ray-tracing cores, and 6GB of GDDR6 memory.
From The Verge ● Aug. 8, 2022
The AI can clearly search at a zillion teraflops and come back with meaningful words.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 26, 2021
Petaflops and teraflops, huge units of computing speed: In Loudoun, massive edifices sprang up overnight.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 24, 2021
Microsoft may have been beating its chest about 12 teraflops and the “world’s most powerful console,” but that hasn’t materialized yet.
From The Verge ● Nov. 25, 2020
Microsoft and Xbox ┏ Microsoft reveals more Xbox Series X specs, confirms 12 teraflops GPU.
From The Verge ● Feb. 25, 2020
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