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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.
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.
8 teraflops of 64-bit floating point performance, and the SC648, designed for departmental users and offering 648 gigaflops of 64-bit performance.
 
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