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teraflop

American  
[ter-uh-flahp] / ˈtɛr əˌflɑp /

noun

  • teraflops
    plural
  1. Computers, Mathematics. one trillion flops.


teraflop British  
/ ˈtɛrəˌflɒp /

noun

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

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teraflop Scientific  
/ tĕrə-flŏp′ /
  1. A measure of computing speed equal to one trillion floating-point operations per second.


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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

Intel, maker of the chips that run most IBM-compatible personal computers, is expected to announce its own teraflop initiative next month at a supercomputer convention in Albuquerque.

From Time Magazine Archive

"We could build a teraflop machine today," boasts Hillis.

From Time Magazine Archive

By 1995, NEC, Fujitsu and Hitachi could be marketing their own teraflop machines.

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 Intel Arc Pro A40 will ship in a small single-slot form factor with 3.5 teraflops of graphical power, eight ray-tracing cores, and 6GB of GDDR6 memory.

From The Verge Aug. 8, 2022

That’s a bump over the 36 teraflops on the RTX 3090, the base 1395MHz clock, and 1695MHz boost clock speeds.

From The Verge Mar. 29, 2022

“It has onboard compute, 1 teraflops of compute that essentially houses a really large AI model that we’ve built,” says Bathiche.

From The Verge Mar. 22, 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

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