Floating point operations per second: Difference between revisions

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* '''Gigaflops''' means one billion FLOPS

* '''Teraflops''' means 10¹² FLOPS. The most powerful [[supercomputer]]s have speeds measured in '''teraflops'''.

* '''Petaflops''' means 10¹⁵ FLOPS, or a thousand teraflops.

* '''Zettaflops''' means 10²¹ FLOPS, a thousand petaflops

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