petaflop
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- noun
- /ˈpɛtəˌflɒp/
- Specialized
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petaflop
- Researchers have developed a petaflop system that can analyze massive datasets in seconds.
- petaflops equals 20 quadrillion
- speed of petaflops
- 20 petaflops
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Jaguar's 2.3 petaflops needed 7 megawatts of energy—enough to power a small town.
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The fastest computer to date is currently the California-based IBM Sequoia, which whirred to the 16.32 petaflops mark in June.
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These puppies right here are actually responsible for the bulk of that petaflop of processing power.
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In another 20 or 30 years, the Exaflop will be available, and possibly petaflop supercomputers will be commercially available to enterprises.
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A petaflop computer is possible, proven by the American Roadrunner, and continued by future people who dedicate their efforts to improve present computer architecture to achieve the "petaflop" standard.
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Together with AMD CPUs, Tesla K20X powers the new 27-petaflop supercomputer "Titan" at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
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To address this need for faster simulations, my team at IBM Research is working with the Lawrence Livermore National Lab on Cardioid, a code that simulates the human heart on the 20 Petaflop Blue Gene/Q, Sequoia.
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The CPUs are designed to carry out single instructions, while the massive parallelism of the GPUs boosts performance to an incredible 17.59 petaflop/sec according to the Linpack benchmark.
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The new supercomputer can perform petaflop operations, making it one of the fastest in the world.
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With speeds reaching 20 petaflops, the latest technology is revolutionizing scientific simulations.
Synonyms
A measure of computer speed equal to one thousand trillion math calculations per second
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Etymology
Petaflop is built from the prefix peta- meaning 'a very large number (10^15)' and flop, from the abbreviation FLOP for 'floating-point operation' (think of the common word 'float'). So a petaflop measures how many tiny floating-point math steps a computer can do each second — about one quadrillion operations per second.