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Petaflops

Noun:

A petaflop is a unit of computing speed equal to one quadrillion floating-point operations per second. It is commonly used to measure the performance of supercomputers.

Example sentence:

The latest supercomputer from company XYZ boasts an impressive processing power of 5 petaflops.

Related products:

• Petaflop Supercomputers
• Petaflop Computing

Adjective:

Used to describe a computing system or device capable of achieving a computing speed in the petaflop range.

Example sentence:

The government-funded laboratory unveiled a new petaflop supercomputer that promises to revolutionize scientific research.

Related products:

• Petaflop Supercomputers
• Petaflop Computing

Verb:

Coinvolving the use of high-performance computing techniques to achieve petaflop-level speeds.

Example sentence:

The research team petaflops their simulations to model complex weather patterns accurately.

Related products:

• Petaflop Supercomputers
• Petaflop Computing