FLOPS 1
FLOPS 1 :
(ICT) Short for Floating Point operations per Second. This is a measure of the calculation power of a computer. The higher the FLOPS the more powerful the computer. A single FLOP is not useful at all for describing the performance of a computer because they operate so very, very quickly. Instead, the metric system is used to add to the speed of a paltry FLOPS, These are (1) megaFLOPS, 1 million floating point operations per second (useful for control systems such as a washing machine controller). (2) gigaFLOPS, 1 thousand million floating point operations per second (the type of speed of a personal computer). (3) teraFLOPS - 1 thousand gigaFLOPS. The start of the supercomputer range of computer performance. (4) petaFLOPS - 1 thousand teraFLOPS. This is the current range of the most powerful computers in the world. See also: Floating point
