petaflop
noun
peta·flop
ˈpe-tə-ˌfläp 
plural petaflops
: a unit of measure for the calculating speed of a computer equal to one quadrillion floating-point operations per second
The high-performance computing goal, known as a petaflop—one thousand trillion calculations per second—has long been viewed as a crucial milestone by military, technical and scientific organizations in the United States, as well as a growing group including Japan, China and the European Union.—
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“Petaflop.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/petaflop. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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