Floating point operations per second: Difference between revisions

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'''FLOPS''' means ''floating point instructions per second'' -- an approximate measure of a [[computer]]'s processing speed. A '''Megaflopmegaflop''' is one million FLOPS, and a '''Gigaflopgigaflop''' in one billion FLOPS. The most powerful [[supercomputer]]s have speeds measured in '''teraflops''', or units of 10¹² FLOPS.

FLOPS are not that useful as a [[benchmark]] for modern computers because there are many other factors in computer performance other than raw floating-point computation.