megaflop
Colossal box-office bomb
A megaflop is a unit measuring computing speed: one million floating-point operations per second.
The term belongs to a family of benchmarks—gigaflops, teraflops, petaflops—used to compare supercomputer performance: The system peaked at 200 megaflops.
Separately, a megaflop can mean a spectacular failure, intensifying ordinary flop: The movie was a megaflop.
Processing speed unit
- supercomputerUltra-powerful computing system
- mainframeLarge centralized computer system
- parallelEquidistant at all points
- clusterGathered group nearby
node · datacenter · summit · frontier · benchmark · ranking · scientific · simulation
Processing rate over time
- latencyDelay in system response
- executionCompleting a planned task
- workloadAssigned task volume
- efficiencyProductive without waste
optimization · scalability · parallelism · instruction · operation · cycle · clock · pipeline
Explosive device or disaster
- disasterSudden ruinous event
- dudFailed device or effort
- bustFailure or sculpture
- fiascoHumiliating public failure
debacle · turkey · disappointment · boxoffice · commercial · critical · underperformance · loss
Component that executes instructions
- CPUMain computing chip
- GPUVisual processing hardware
- coprocessorSupplementary computational unit
- acceleratorSpeed control mechanism
chip · silicon · transistor · core · multicore · architecture · ALU · register
gigaflop
Processing speed unit
- supercomputerUltra-powerful computing system
- mainframeLarge centralized computer system
- parallelEquidistant at all points
cluster · node · datacenter · summit · frontier · benchmark · ranking · scientific · simulation · weather
throughput
Processing rate over time
efficiency · optimization · scalability · parallelism · instruction · operation · cycle · clock · pipeline · floating-point
bomb
Explosive device or disaster
fiasco · debacle · turkey · disappointment · boxoffice · commercial · critical · underperformance · loss · writeoff
processor
Component that executes instructions
- CPUMain computing chip
- GPUVisual processing hardware
- coprocessorSupplementary computational unit
accelerator · chip · silicon · transistor · core · multicore · architecture · ALU · register · cache
megaflopblockbuster
Enormously successful entertainment property
smash hit · megahit · runaway success · chart-topper · phenomenon