Megaflop (Noun)

Meaning

(computer science) a unit for measuring the speed of a computer system.

Classification

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure.

Examples

  • The supercomputer was able to process 10 petaflops, a far cry from the early machines that barely broke the megaflop barrier.
  • To achieve high-performance computing, scientists required machines capable of reaching at least several tens of megaflops.
  • Moore's law accurately predicted that processing speeds would reach 1 megaflop by the mid-1980s, as microprocessor development continued.
  • Since it is estimated that the human brain processes about 1 exaflop of data per second, achieving just a fraction of a megaflop is actually rather remarkable.
  • Only by advancing computer speeds beyond a megaflop would complex tasks, like large-scale numerical modeling and forecasting, be within computational reach.

Synonyms

  • Million Floating Point Operations Per Second
  • MFLOP

Hypernyms

  • Unit
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