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   Gig·a·flop

   /ˈɡiɡəˌfläp/

   

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   • 1. a unit of computing speed equal to one billion floating-point operations per second: "the Cray supercomputer's goal was 16 gigaflops"

   Word Origin 1970s: back-formation from gigaflops (see giga-, -flop).

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   What is a gigaflop / Gflop?

   • A gigaflop or gflop is a billion (10 9) FLOPS (floating-point operations per second). It is used as a measurement of the speed of a computer. Was this page useful? Yes No Computer dictionary definition for what gigaflop means including related links, information, and terms.

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   What is a gigaflop in Computer Science?

   • A gigaflop is a unit of measure used to quantify the computing performance of a processing unit, typically a CPU or GPU, specifically in the context of floating-point operations. Floating-point operations are mathematical calculations involving real numbers (numbers that have a real value – they are not limited to integers).

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   What is a gigaflop & why is it important?

   • Gigaflop is a unit of measure used to express computational power, which stands for one billion floating-point operations per second. It is commonly used in performance benchmarks for high-performance computing devices, such as supercomputers and Graphics Processing Units (GPUs).

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   What does Gflop stand for?

   • A Gigaflop (GFLOP) is a unit of computing performance measurement, representing one billion floating-point operations per second. It is commonly used to quantify the performance of processors, supercomputers, and computer systems, particularly when it comes to complex calculations and simulations. How are Gigaflops calculated?

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3. www.techopedia.com › definition › 14130What is Gigaflop? - Definition from Techopedia

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   Sep 9, 2013 · A gigaflop is one billion floating-point operations per second, a measure of processor speed and data-intensive calculations. Learn how gigaflop relates to other terms like gigabyte, teraflop, and petaflop, and how it has evolved over time.

4. techterms.com › definition › gigaflopsGigaflops Definition - What is a gigaflops? - TechTerms.com

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   Jan 22, 2009 · Gigaflops is a unit of measurement used to measure the performance of a computer's floating point unit, commonly referred to as the FPU. One gigaflops is one billion (1,000,000,000) FLOPS, or floating point operations, per second.

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   Floating point operations per second ( FLOPS, flops or flop/s) is a measure of computer performance in computing, useful in fields of scientific computations that require floating-point calculations. [1] For such cases, it is a more accurate measure than measuring instructions per second. [citation needed]

   Microarchitecture	Instruction Set Architecture	Fp64	Fp32
   Intel 80486	x87 (32-bit)	?	0.128
   Intel P5 Pentium Intel P6 Pentium Pro	x87 (32-bit)	?	0.5
   Intel P5 Pentium MMX Intel P6 Pentium II	MMX (64-bit)	?	1
   Intel P6 Pentium III	SSE (64-bit)	?	2

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6. www.merriam-webster.com › dictionary › gigaflopGigaflop Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster

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   A gigaflop is a unit of measure for the calculating speed of a computer equal to one billion floating-point operations per second. Learn more about the word history, examples, and related terms of gigaflop from Merriam-Webster dictionary.

7. www.techtarget.com › whatis › definitionfloating-point operations per second (FLOPS) - TechTarget

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   Floating-point operations per second (FLOPS) is a measure of a computer's performance based on the number of floating-point arithmetic calculations that the processor can perform within a second. Floating-point arithmetic is a term used in computing to describe a type of calculation carried out on floating-point representations of real numbers.

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   Dec 18, 2023 · A gigaflop (GFLOP) is a unit of computing performance that measures one billion floating-point operations per second. Learn how gigaflops are calculated, why they are important, and see examples of devices with different gigaflop ratings.

10. www.computerhope.com › jargon › gWhat is a Gigaflop? - Computer Hope

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    Dec 31, 2022 · A gigaflop or gflop is a billion (10 9) FLOPS (floating-point operations per second). It is used as a measurement of the speed of a computer.