FLOPS

FLOPS, or flop/s, is a abbreviation for floating-point operations per second. A gigaFLOPS (often mispresented as a "gigaflop", is a unit of measurement used to measure the performance of graphics processing units (GPUs) in billions of floating point operations per second. 1 gigaFLOPS was also a classic unit of measurement for supercomputer performance until the release of the Power Mac G4 by Apple Computer in 1999.

Variations

 * A kiloFLOPS (kFLOPS) consists of 1,000 FLOPS ( 103 )
 * A megaFLOPS (MFLOPS) consists of 1,000 kiloFLOPS, or 1,000,000 FLOPS ( 106 )
 * A gigaFLOPS (GFLOPS) consists of 1,000 megaFLOPS, or 1,000,000,000 FLOPS ( 109 )
 * A teraFLOPS (TFLOPS) consists of 1,000 gigaFLOPS, or 1,000,000,000,000 FLOPS ( 1012 )
 * A petaFLOPS (PFLOPS) consists of 1,000 teraFLOPS, or 1,000,000,000,000,000 FLOPS ( 1015 )
 * An exaFLOPS (EFLOPS) consists of 1,000 petaFLOPS, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 FLOPS ( 1018 )