petaflop

== English == === Etymology === From peta- + flop. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpɛtəflɒp/ (US) IPA(key): /ˈpɛtəflɑp/ === Noun === petaflop (plural petaflops) (computing) Either of two units of measure of the calculating speed of a computer: a quadrillion (10¹⁵) floating point operations per second. 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 [in 2008] ==== Translations ====