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What is a gigaflop?

What is a gigaflop? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (computing) A unit of measure for the calculating speed of a computer equal to one billion (109) floating point operations per second.
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Since Cray Y-MP8 can hit two and a half billion flops, it is considered to be gigaflop supercomputer.
The system includes six two gigaflop processors, 10 gigabytes of memory, one terrabyte of raided disk storage and high density tape subsystems.
One looked especially juicy, compressed to just under a gigaflop and backed up in three separate locations.
The 2000 SERIES Compute Server is designed for use in dedicated real-time applications requiring gigaflop performance with a high density format.
They broke the gigaflop barrier in 1991 with Grape3, and speed increases have continued since.
As for their claim to have built a pi-computing gigaflop supercomputer out of mail-order parts for around seventy thousand dollars, he flatly believed it.

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