Petaflop

A petaflop is the measure of one thousand trillion operations per second or (ops). ❋ Melissa Bell (2010)

To be sure, there should be an asterisk after the record, for one quadrillion instructions a second, or a petaflop, is a peak number, achieved while calculating just one problem with the aid of extensive hand tuning. ❋ Unknown (2008)

One petaflop is the equivalent of 1,000 trillion calculations per second. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Roadrunner is the first to top a measure known as a petaflop, meaning that in a single second it can conduct more than one quadrillion of the "floating point" calculations used by scientists. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The Oak Ridge lab, a Department of Energy facility, announced Monday that it had upgraded Jaguar since then, and achieved its four-year goal of 1 quadrillion calculations per second - or 1 "petaflop" - six months ahead of schedule. ❋ Unknown (2008)

For the nongeek readers out there, (brace yourself because this number is going to sail right past you), a petaflop is a quadrillion float-point operations per second.www. abqmurals.com ❋ Unknown (2009)

The article should not have been called The petaflop challenge, but The open source challenge. ❋ Egon Willighagen (2007)

It was planned to run at sustained speeds of at least a thousand trillion operations a second, a measure known as a petaflop and a standard for speed that had long been sought. ❋ Unknown (2011)

A petaflop is a quadrillion or a million billion operations a second. ❋ Casey Chan (2011)

Currently the US Military's best machines are able to perform a petaflop, which is 1,000 trillion (a quadrillion) calculations per second. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Oak Ridge's Jaguar supercomputer, ranked the fastest in the world at 2.3 petaflops -- a petaflop is a thousand trillion floating-point operations/sec -- has more than enough memory and processing power to handle a year's worth of claims in minutes without interfering with ongoing research. ❋ Unknown (2010)