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gig·a·flop  (gg-flp, jg-)
n.
A measure of computing speed equal to one billion floating-point operations per second.

[giga- + FLOP.]

gigaflop [ˈgaɪgəˌflɒp]
n
(Electronics & Computer Science / Computer Science) Computing a measure of processing speed, consisting of a thousand million floating-point operations a second
[from giga- + flo(ating) p(oint)]

gigaflop  (gg-flp)
A measure of computing speed equal to one billion floating-point operations per second.


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3 GHz PowerPC G5 processors with over 35 gigaflops of processing power per system.
Apple's dual-processor 64-bit Xserve G5 server delivers over 30 gigaflops of processing power per system, about 60 percent more than the PowerPC G4- based Xserve.
It is based on the Linpack benchmark, which measures a computer's floating-point rate of executing linear equations and is expressed in Gigaflops (Gflop/s) or billions of floating point operations per second.
 
 
 
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