Sentence examples for billion operations per second from inspiring English sources

A portion of its $2 million start-up money will finance a dedicated computer, with operating speeds of 600 billion operations per second, for theoretical calculations.

These machines will have more than a million processors, each capable of a billion operations per second (one gigaflop).

Equipped with this many processors, the brain might be capable of executing as many as 100 billion operations per second, a truly impressive number.

Israeli scientists say they have built a DNA computer so tiny that a trillion of them can fit in a test tube and perform a billion operations per second with 99.8percentt accuracy.

For all the corporate enthusiasm over the unveiling of each new generation of computer chip (last month Intel announced that its Pentium 4 would be packed with 42 million transistors performing as many as 8.4 billion operations per second), consumers may be more apt to feel a sense of dread.

The Philips TM 1000 multimedia chip that Polycom is using in its ViewStation can do half a billion operations per second.

Modern computers operate at speeds of more than one billion operations per second.

Meanwhile, the Cray is reaching toward pi at a rate of a hundred million operations per second.

(Bitcoin "miners" currently perform roughly 200 quadrillion operations per second, utilising 800 times the reckoning force of the top 500 supercomputers in the world combined.

Seventeen quadrillion operations per second.

Scientists hope the next generation of supercomputers will carry out a million trillion operations per second.