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Definition of Gigaflop
1. Noun. A unit of measure for the calculating speed of a computer equal to one billion (109) floating point operations per second. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gigaflop
1. a measure of computing speed [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gigaflop
Literary usage of Gigaflop
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Aerospace Plane Technology: Research and Development in Japan and Australia (1994)
"Its computational hardware includes a Hitachi S8-20/80 supercomputer acquired in
199 that has a 2-gigaflop processing rate and 512 megabytes of memory. ..."
2. Ninth Day of Creationby Leonard Crane by Leonard Crane (2000)
"This was reflected in the 750 designation of the final product, which referred
to the number of gigaflop-years, or the raw number of computing instructions, ..."
3. State of the Laboratory: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory edited by William A. Bookless (1995)
"... which will be used on massively parallel computers and extend performance from
gigaflop to teraflop power. We also moved DYNA3D, our best-known code, ..."
4. Ballistic Missile Defense Organization: Technology Applications Report (1997) by Pat Hartary (1999)
"... of the device as a multiple-digital signal processor for an active-vibration
isolation system, executing operations at close to a gigaflop rate. ..."
5. Competing Economies: America, Europe, and the Pacific Rim by 52003012600, Office of Technology Assessment, United States, Congress (1991)
"... Fujitsu was the main contractor for the prototype of a 10-gigaflop machine,
doing the computing system and integration of all the parts, Hitachi did the ..."
6. The Creative Society of the 21st Century by OECD Forum for the Future (2000)
"... gigaflop, teraflop calculating performance of a supercomputer will not transform
your life; the inexorable advances in small-computer connectivity will. ..."
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