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teraflop

/ ˈtɛrəˌflɒp /

noun

  1. computing a measure of processing speed, consisting of a thousand billion floating-point operations a second

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teraflop

  1. A measure of computing speed equal to one trillion floating-point operations per second.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of teraflop1

C20: from tera- + flo ( ating ) p ( oint )
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There’s also 78 teraflops for ray tracing and 320 teraflops for AI tasks.

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AMD revealed last week that it’s powering this new infotainment system in both the new Model S and Model X, with 10 teraflops of compute power.

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It’s not that Democrats didn’t have the ability to harness teraflops of surveillance-based insights as reasons to reject Trumpian allies and enablers.

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There’s a lesson in there somewhere about how an emotional connection isn’t made by an audiophile-approved sound system or a 4K TV or a new video game console and all of its teraflops.

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