Sentence examples for floating point operations per second from inspiring English sources

1 exaflop is 10^18 floating point operations per second, that's a thousand petaflops.

A petaflop is a thousand trillion floating point operations per second.

In 2008, Los Alamos' Roadrunner supercomputer reached petascale computing, or a quadrillion (10^15) floating point operations per second.

In 1999, we reached teraflops-scale computing, or a trillion (10^12) floating point operations per second.

An exascale computer is one that can perform a quintillion floating point operations per second, thought to be same power as a human brain.

It can do this work at a speed of about half a teraflop, or half a trillion floating point operations, per second.

The main goal, Robinson says, is to develop a new computer that will use parallel processors to achieve a speed of 100 trillion floating point operations per second--a 50-fold increase in speed over the system Celera uses today.

Superconducting electronics could be a boon to efforts to build the world's first petaflop computer--capable of one thousand trillion floating point operations per second--says superconductivity expert John Rowell of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

This massively parallel system exploits system-on-a-chip technology to deliver a target peak of 360 teraFLOPS (trillion floating-point operations per second).

The K computer was the first 10 petaflop supercomputer (1015 floating-point operations per second; Yokokawa et al. 2011).

The event was a celebration of speed, as measured in floating-point operations per second, or flops.