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Flops defined
A"flop" is a floating point operation, the basic unit of most
benchmarking systems, measured per second. Hence, a gigaflop
system can process a billion floating point operations in one
second. You'll notice the top supercomputers are now ranked in
teraflops, trillions of flops per second. You may not remember
that the Motorola G4 chip was one of the first personal computer
CPUs to crank out a gigaflop.
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whats the number?  CrazY_UKRaiNiaN | 06/22/05
10 to the twenty-second power  nucrash | 06/22/05
Commodore 64 Supercomputer  syncity | 06/22/05
Software?  dwest_z | 06/22/05
Re: software  Otto_Delete | 06/22/05
theyre running suse  linuxoverwindows | 06/22/05
Number 14  Palmyra | 06/22/05
Absolutely!  olePigeon | 06/22/05
I think there is a clue in there somewhere...  Colonel_Panic | 06/22/05
i thought i was the only one who caught that :P  linuxoverwindows | 06/22/05
Actually I know what it runs  Jeff the god of biscuits | 06/22/05
linear  bit_rot | 06/22/05
Aghgh, schmuper compooter, mine makes...  Colonel_Panic | 06/22/05
Pak chooie unf  Jeff the god of biscuits | 06/22/05
What OS do they run?  Tim Patterson | 06/22/05
unix variants  Reverend MacFellow | 06/22/05
Which include Mac OS X. happy [nt]  olePigeon | 06/22/05
Which is why OS X is so good . . . NT  Ken_z | 06/22/05
RE: Which is why OS X is so good . . . NT  nightshade0143 | 06/22/05
Windows ME of course  Jeff the god of biscuits | 06/22/05
OS, what OS?  batavier | 06/22/05
keep your ignorance to yourself  cicuta | 06/22/05
Of course  CobraA1 | 06/23/05
Why aren't they running something like  RatMcGee | 06/23/05
Linux rules Supercomputers  IT-sys | 06/22/05
Club Shepherd 2005 v1.00  Bridge_SMASH | 06/22/05
Say what?  frabjous | 06/22/05
Agreed  erdiko@... | 06/23/05
Yeah, who the hell was that masked man?  gregry | 06/23/05
Now THAT's funny !!!  RatMcGee | 06/23/05
Uhhhh, Brian...  RatMcGee | 06/23/05
SuperPuter  bignoisybird | 06/22/05
Flops defined  frabjous | 06/22/05
Heavens -  RatMcGee | 06/23/05
Not a bellyflop  aforencich | 06/22/05
Portable flops  frabjous | 06/22/05
And then of course...  RatMcGee | 06/23/05
At 70 teraflops can it...  clazaam@... | 06/25/05
supercomputer operating systems  bear090938@... | 07/19/05

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