Meaning & use
Petaflops
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A unit of computing speed equal to one thousand trillion (10^15) floating-point operations per second.
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The new supercomputer can perform over a hundred petaflops of calculations.
Scientists needed several petaflops of processing power to run the climate simulation.
A note on using this word
Used mainly to measure the performance of supercomputers; the singular unit is a 'petaflop.'
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