What does the 'petaFLOPS' mean ?
I attent an career fair and found there was an sentence said in a brochure " We have total processing power of 30 petaFLOPS". I was confused and I didn't find the explanation in dictionary.

Question

What does the 'petaFLOPS' mean ?
I attent an career fair and found there was an sentence said in a brochure " We have total processing power of > 30 petaFLOPS". I was confused and I didn't find the explanation in dictionary.

Answer

以下内容均摘自网络。

'A petaflop is a measure of a computer's processing speed and can be expressed as: A quadrillion (thousand trillion) floating point operations per second (FLOPS) A thousand teraflops. 10 to the 15th power FLOPS.'

‘所谓petaflop，是衡量计算机性能的一个重要单位，1petaflop等于每秒钟进行1千万亿次的数学运算，这种速度大约是现在运算速度最快计算机的8倍。’

‘中国天河2号成全球最快超级计算机-运算速度达33.85petaflop’

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http://techterms.com/definition/petaflops