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petaFLOPS

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petaFLOPS

(PETA FLoating point OPerations per Second) One quadrillion floating point operations per second. See FLOPS and Roadrunner.

(unit)petaflops - 10^15 flops or 1000 teraflops. No computer has achieved this performance yet.


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