gigaflops
Supercomputer performance measure
Gigaflops is a measure of computing speed: one billion floating-point operations per second.
The term benchmarks processor performance for scientific and mathematical calculations.
A modern graphics card might deliver hundreds of gigaflops; supercomputers reach petaflops (thousands of gigaflops).
The singular gigaflop refers to one billion operations, though gigaflops dominates in practice.
Visual processing hardware
- CPUMain computing chip
- processorComponent that executes instructions
- coresCentral essential parts
- ASICSingle-purpose microchip
accelerator · chip · transistors · silicon · architecture · cache · bandwidth · semiconductor
Planned systematic activities
- throughputProcessing rate over time
- calculationsMathematical problem-solving work
- precisionAccuracy of measurement
- floating-pointDecimal number representation
benchmark · performance · peak · sustained · theoretical · compute · processing
Budget American airline
- datacenterFacility housing networked computers
- clusterGathered group nearby
- parallelEquidistant at all points
- simulationImitation of real processes
Interpretive depiction or performance
- cryptographyScience of secure messaging
- simulationImitation of real processes
- modelingSimulating or demonstrating form
- inferenceConclusion reached through reasoning
GPU
Visual processing hardware
ASIC · accelerator · chip · transistors · silicon · architecture · cache · bandwidth · semiconductor · microprocessor
operations
Planned systematic activities
- throughputProcessing rate over time
- calculationsMathematical problem-solving work
- precisionAccuracy of measurement
floating-point · benchmark · performance · peak · sustained · theoretical · compute · processing
Frontier
Budget American airline
- datacenterFacility housing networked computers
- clusterGathered group nearby
- parallelEquidistant at all points
rendering
Interpretive depiction or performance
- cryptographyScience of secure messaging
- simulationImitation of real processes
- modelingSimulating or demonstrating form