Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index FLOPS means floating point operations per second -- an approximate measure of a computer's processing speed. Megaflops means one million FLOPS, and Gigaflops means 1000 million FLOPS. teraflops means 1012 FLOPS. The most powerful supercomputers have speeds measured in teraflops. Petaflops means 1015 FLOPS, or a million gigaflops. ZettaFLOP means 1021 FLOPS It is interesting to note that the combined calculating power of all the computer on the planet only several petaflops. FLOPS, like MIPS, are arguably not that useful as a benchmark for modern computers because there are many other factors in computer performance other than raw floating-point computation, such as interprocessor communication, cache coherence, and the memory hierarchy. However, for purely mathematical calculations, such as analysis of data, the FLOPS measurement is effective. FLOPS is also a homebrew club in Fayette, Arkansas This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.