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Definition of Gigaflops
1. gigaflop [n] - See also: gigaflop
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gigaflops
Literary usage of Gigaflops
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Competing Economies: America, Europe, and the Pacific Rim by 52003012600, Office of Technology Assessment, United States, Congress (1991)
"... which is expected out in late 1991, will have an actual speed of some 7
gigaflops, higher than current Cray machines (1.5 gigaflops), and that the Cray ..."
2. U. S. National Security and Military/Commercial Concerns with the People's edited by Christopher Cox (1999)
"... with 18 microprocessors, each rated at 300 megaflops (MFLOPS)237 or more, and
a peak speed of more than 5 gigaflops (GFLOPS), costs about $1 million, ..."
3. Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics by Edward R Dougherty (2005)
"... running at the CPU come speed (typically many gigaflops) and rely on code
specifically written for vector and floating point calculations. ..."
4. High-Performance Computing in Europe by Miroslaw Malek (1993)
"... APE100—A 100-gigaflops Parallel Computer Synopsis Twelve physicists (turned
computer scientists and engineers) at the Institute of Nuclear Physics, ..."
5. U. S. Industrial Outlook, 1994: Business Forecasts for 350 IndustriesBusiness & Economics (1994)
"... floating-point operations per second (gigaflops). All US vendors of supercomputers,
even vector manufacturers, offered highly parallel systems in 1993. ..."
6. Computer Science Research Activities in Asia: Software Technology and by David K. Kahaner (1994)
"Formulating problems that require many gigaflops or teraflops requires experience
with lesser, but still powerful, hardware. I heard several scientists say ..."
7. Biomedical Technology Resources: A Research Resources Directory edited by Barry Leonard (1998)
"This system has 512 processors and a peak capability of over gigaflops. Ä Special
Features The Visual Insight Zone offers high-end visualization resources, ..."
8. Aerospace Plane Technology: Research and Development in Japan and Australia (1994)
"This supercomputer has a maximum processing speed of 3 gigaflops and a 512-megabyte
main memory. The University of Hokkaido also has the Hitachi S8-20. ..."
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