Floating point operations per second: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 15:03, 11 March 2004

Revision as of 14:40, 23 April 2004

Line 9:

* '''Zettaflops''' means 10²¹ FLOPS

It is interesting to note that the combined calculating power of all the computercomputers on the planet is only several petaflops.

FLOPS, like [[million instructions per second|MIPS]], are arguably not very useful as a [[benchmark]] for modern computers because there are many other factors in computer performance other than raw floating-point computation speed, such as [[interprocessor communication]], [[cache coherence]], and the [[memory hierarchy]].