petaflop

Noun

 * 1)  Either of two  of the calculating speed of a computer:
 * 2) a quadrillion (10¹⁵) floating point operations per second.
 * 1,125,899,906,842,624 (2⁵⁰) floating point operations per second.
 * 1) * 2012 Fall, Edgar Gabriel, COSC 6374 — Parallel Computation: Introduction and Organizational Issues, slide 20: “”:
 * First computer to surpass the 1 Petaflop (2⁵⁰ FLOPS) barrier [in 2008]
 * First computer to surpass the 1 Petaflop (2⁵⁰ FLOPS) barrier [in 2008]