million instructions per second

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million instructions per second - (computer science) a unit for measuring the execution speed of a computer's CPU (but not the whole system); "4 MIPS is 4,000,000 instructions per second"

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computer science, computing - the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures

unit, unit of measurement - any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange; "the dollar is the United States unit of currency"; "a unit of wheat is a bushel"; "change per unit volume"

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MIPS unit unit of measurement			The newly developed micro controller comes with a CPU core of SH2A-FPU, enabling a processing of 480 million instructions per second (MIPS) on a wavelength of 200 MHz and a floating operation of 400 MFLOPS of powered processing. Renesas Technology Develops a Multi-Core Technology by JCNN News Summaries The series executes code from its third-generation flash up to 60 million instructions per second (MIPS), without using acceleration technology. Hybrid controller: signal processing and computing power on a single ... by Designfax In 1978, a Cray supercomputer processed 160 million instructions per second and cost $20 million, according to Peppers and Rogers. One by One by Alende, Andres Hernandez / Latin Trade			Millifold Milligan milligram millihenry Millikan Millikan Robert Andrews milliliter millilitre millime millimeter millimeter of mercury millimetre millimicron millimole milline milliner millinery Millinet milling Milling cutter milling machine milling machinery Milling tool million million floating point operations per second million instructions per second millionaire millionairess Millionary Millioned millionfold Millionnaire millionth Milliped millipede milliradian millirem millisecond Millistere millivolt millivoltmeter milliwatt Milliweber millpond millrace Millrea Millrind millrun Mills Mills bomb millstone			Million Dollar Pigeon Race Million Dollar Quartet Million Dollar Road Trip Million dollar round table Million dollar round table Million Dollar Roundtable Million Dollar Shoot Out Million Dollar Workup Million Electron Volts million electronvolts Million Element Integral Field Unit Million Entering Vehicles Million Equivalent Standard Axle Loads Million Euros million floating point operations per second million floating point operations per second million floating-point operations per second Million Gallons per Day Million gallons per year Million Giga Joules Million Gross Ton Miles Million Heat Unit Million Hectares Million Hours Million Imperial Gallons per Day Million Infrastructure Accounting Units million instructions per second Million International Units Million Lines of Code Million Liters Per Year Million Logic Inferences/Instructions Per Second Million Lookups Per Second Million Man Lan Million Man March Million Man March Million Man March Million Man March Million Marijuana March Million Metric Standard Cubic Meter Per Day Million Metric Standard Cubic Meters Million Metric Tonne Per Annum Million Metric Tons Million Metric Tons Annually Million Metric Tons of Carbon Dioxide Equivalent Million Metric Tons of Carbon Equivalent Million Metric Tons Per Annum Million Miles Away Million Mom March Million monkeys method Million Multiply Accumulate Cycles per Second Million Multiply Accumulate Operations Million NATO Accounting Units Million of Unified Canes Million Ounces

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