million floating point operations per second

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million floating point operations per second

A computer's performance is measured in million floating point operations per second.

Definition
  1. Noun:
    • A unit of measurement for computing speed: "million floating point operations per second" is a unit used to measure the computational performance of a computer system, specifically the number of floating-point arithmetic calculations it can perform in one second, counted in millions.
Usage
  • This term is a technical, compound noun phrase used primarily in computer science and engineering contexts to quantify and compare the processing power of computers, especially for scientific calculations, graphics rendering, and complex simulations.
  • It is often abbreviated as MFLOPS or megaFLOPS.
Examples
  • Noun:
    • The new supercomputer achieved a speed of over 100 million floating point operations per second.
    • When comparing processors for scientific research, the metric of million floating point operations per second is crucial.
Advanced Usage
  • Historical Context: This unit was more commonly used in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Modern high-performance computers are now typically measured in GFLOPS (gigaFLOPS, billions of operations per second), TFLOPS (teraFLOPS, trillions), or even PFLOPS (petaFLOPS).
  • "Peak MFLOPS": Refers to the theoretical maximum performance a system can achieve under ideal conditions.
    • The chip's peak performance was rated at 500 million floating point operations per second.
Variants and Related Words
  • MFLOPS / megaFLOPS (n): The standard abbreviation for "million floating point operations per second".
  • FLOPS (n): Floating Point Operations Per Second; the base unit.
  • GFLOPS (n): GigaFLOPS; a unit of one billion floating point operations per second.
  • TFLOPS (n): TeraFLOPS; a unit of one trillion floating point operations per second.
Synonyms
  • Megaflop (n): An informal synonym for MFLOPS.
  • Computational speed unit (n): A general descriptive term.
Related Phrases
  • Floating-point performance (n): A general term for the speed at which a system handles floating-point calculations.
  • Linpack benchmark (n): A well-known test used to measure a system's performance in MFLOPS/GFLOPS.
million floating point operations per second

A computer's performance is measured in million floating point operations per second.

Noun
  1. (computer science) a unit for measuring the speed of a computer system

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