exaflop

9.9

A unit of computer speed meaning one billion billion calculations each second

noun
/ˈɛksəˌflɒp/

Specialized

: exaflop

The latest supercomputer can perform at an astonishing speed of one exaflop, handling quintillions of calculations every second.

That's a, you know, it's, it's exaflops, yottaflops, but you can quantify it.

Examples

By the end of the decade, scientists expect to develop hardware capable of exceeding one exaflop of computing power.
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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That's a, you know, it's, it's exaflops, yottaflops, but you can quantify it.

Lex Fridman
Researchers are excited about the advancements in technology that could enable computers to achieve exaflop performance by 2025.

Synonyms

EFLOPS

vsexaflop

Specialized

9.9

A unit that measures how many math operations a computer can do each second, equal to one billion billion operations

is the same unit written as a singular lowercase term

How Fast

yottaflop

Specialized

9.9

zettaflop

Specialized

9.9

exaflop

Specialized

9.9

petaflop

Specialized

1 9.9

teraflop

Specialized

2 9.3

gigaflop

Specialized

1 8.2

megaflop

Specialized

7.7

Surface Forms

exaflop singular

exaflops plural

Morphology

exaflop = flop (semi-transparent) = exa + flop + exa

Formed by the SI prefix 'exa-' (10^18) attached to 'FLOP' (floating-point operation); structure is clear but requires technical knowledge of SI prefixes and the computing acronym.

Etymology

Exaflop joins the prefix exa-, which means 'a billion billion', with flop, short for 'floating-point operation', a basic computer calculation. So, an exaflop is a huge number of these calculations every second and is used to measure the speed of the fastest supercomputers.