gigaflop
noun
giga·flop
ˈji-gə-ˌfläp 
ˈgi-
ˈgi-
plural gigaflops
: a unit of measure for the calculating speed of a computer equal to one billion floating-point operations per second
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The ending is certainly an interesting new bit of table-setting: There’s Dolores and Bernard both in the real world, Maeve still in the park, Teddy in the great beyond, and gigaflops of data that have been beamed to some mysterious place.
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The Atlantic, 24 June 2018
Back in 1998, the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts housed the 27th most-powerful supercomputer in the world, with 116 cores providing a maximum performance of 213 gigaflops.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 9 May 2018
Each core is capable of delivering a gigaflop a second, and takes up only a few square millimeters, and each Blue Gene chip will carry a few dozen of them.
—Oliver Morton, WIRED, 1 July 2001
The Atlantic, 24 June 2018
Back in 1998, the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts housed the 27th most-powerful supercomputer in the world, with 116 cores providing a maximum performance of 213 gigaflops.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 9 May 2018
Each core is capable of delivering a gigaflop a second, and takes up only a few square millimeters, and each Blue Gene chip will carry a few dozen of them.
—Oliver Morton, WIRED, 1 July 2001
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