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  • noun computing 1018 floating-point operations per second.

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exa- +‎ FLOP

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Examples

  • "The next speed is 'exaflop' - 10 to the 18th power."

    Technology news, comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk 2009

  • "The next speed is 'exaflop' - 10 to the 18th power."

    The Guardian World News 2009

  • "The next speed is 'exaflop' - 10 to the 18th power."

    The Guardian World News 2009

  • "The next speed is 'exaflop' - 10 to the 18th power."

    The Guardian World News 2009

  • But when Roadrunner broke the petaflop record last year, capable of more than one thousand trillion (one quadrillion) sustained floating-point operations per second, it brought supercomputers into a new territory, the exaflop, which is a million trillion calculations, or a quntillion, per second -- a thousand times faster than a petaflop.

    Techworld Australia News 2009

  • Other companies, notably IBM, and numerous scientific research centers are also working to bring supercomputers and HPC machines into the "exaflop" era.

    ACM TechNews 2009

  • Other companies, notably IBM, and numerous scientific research centers are also working to bring supercomputers and HPC machines into the "exaflop" era.

    eWeek - RSS Feeds 2009

  • And the United States is embarking on an effort to reach an exaflop, or one million trillion mathematical operations in a second, sometime before the end of the decade, though most computer scientists say the necessary technologies do not yet exist.

    NYT > Home Page By JOHN MARKOFF 2011

  • And the United States is embarking on an effort to reach an exaflop, or one million trillion mathematical operations in a second, sometime before the end of the decade, though most computer scientists say the necessary technologies do not yet exist.

    NYT > Global Home By JOHN MARKOFF 2011

  • And the United States is embarking on an effort to reach an exaflop, or one million trillion mathematical operations in a second, sometime before the end of the decade, though most computer scientists say the necessary technologies do not yet exist.

    NYT > Home Page By JOHN MARKOFF 2011

  • The Aurora computer will have the performance of one "exaFLOP," which is equal to a quintillion floating point computations per second, according to a press release and briefing from Intel.

    Meet Aurora, soon to be the most powerful supercomputer in the U.S. Andrew Freedman 2019

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  • See petaflop.

    June 9, 2008