petaflop

an enormously fast computer chip speed: 1,000,000,000,000,000 floating-point operations per second

TRANSLATION

Die unglaublich hohe Mikroprozessorgeschwindigkeit von 10 hoch 15 Fliesskomma-Operationen pro Sekunde!

STATISTICS

IN THE PRESS

We can now imagine chip speeds of a petaflop, or 10 to the power of 15 floating-point operations per second.

(Scientific American 01-00)

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