megaflops

Million floating operations

Megaflops is a unit measuring computing speed—one million floating-point operations per second.

The term belongs to a family of benchmarks (kiloflops, gigaflops, teraflops) that gauge how fast a processor handles complex mathematical calculations.

The supercomputer achieved 500 megaflops on the benchmark test.

Now largely obsolete as modern systems measure in gigaflops or higher.

measurement

floating-point

Decimal number representation

operationsPlanned systematic activities
throughputProcessing rate over time
benchmarkStandard for comparison

metrics · quantification · units · precision · accuracy · performance · calculations · instructions

supercomputing

Fujitsu

Japanese computing conglomerate

IBMMultinational technology corporation
clusterGathered group nearby
mainframeLarge centralized computer system

datacenter · parallel · simulation · Frontier · supercomputer · scientific · research

hardware

processor

Component that executes instructions

GPUVisual processing hardware
CPUMain computing chip
coresCentral essential parts

chip · accelerator · AMD · Intel · tensor · coprocessor · vector · architecture · silicon · transistors

applications

simulation

Imitation of real processes

modelingSimulating or demonstrating form
renderingInterpretive depiction or performance
cryptographyScience of secure messaging

weather · climate · physics · genomics · molecular · astrophysics

Opposites

computational speed scale

megaflopspetaflops

Quadrillion floating-point operations per second

teraflops · gigaflops

performance vs. failure

megaflopssystem crash

Complete operational breakdown

infinite loop · bottleneck

Family

megaflop

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