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.