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Noun

petaflop ‎(plural petaflops)

1. (computing) A unit of measure of the calculating speed of a computer equal to:
   1. one thousand million million (10¹⁵) floating point operations per second.
   2. 1,125,899,906,842,624 (2⁵⁰) floating point operations per second.
      • 2012 Fall, Edgar Gabriel, COSC 6374 — Parallel Computation: Introduction and Organizational Issues, slide 20: “IBM Roadrunner”:

        First computer to surpass the 1 Petaflop (2⁵⁰ FLOPS) barrier

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