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
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
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 Steele, Guy L.
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
Image: Nvidia Nvidia says the RTX 3090 Ti will also include 40 teraflops of GPU performance, with a base clock of 1560MHz, and a boost clock of 1860MHz.
From The Verge ● Mar. 29, 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
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