teraflop
Supercomputer speed measure
A teraflop is a unit measuring computing speed: one trillion floating-point operations per second.
The term appears most often in discussions of supercomputers, graphics cards, and gaming consoles: The new GPU delivers 12 teraflops.
Processing power once measured in megaflops now reaches teraflops and beyond.
Visual processing hardware
- CPUMain computing chip
- processorComponent that executes instructions
- chipsetCoordinated circuit collection
- semiconductorPartial electrical conductor
transistor · microprocessor · silicon · circuitry · core · cache · motherboard · graphics card
Processing rate over time
- benchmarkStandard for comparison
- efficiencyProductive without waste
- scalabilityCapacity for growth
- peak performanceHighest level of functioning
optimization · bottleneck · latency · bandwidth · workload
Processing speed unit
- floating-pointDecimal number representation
- operationsPlanned systematic activities
- benchmarkStandard for comparison
Gathered group nearby
- mainframeLarge centralized computer system
- parallel computingSimultaneous multi-processor problem-solving
- FrontierBudget American airline
- data centerFacility housing networked computers
node · rack · interconnect · cooling system · power consumption
Algorithms that improve from data
- neural networksLayered computational learning systems
- renderingInterpretive depiction or performance
- weather forecastingPredicting future atmospheric conditions
- genomicsStudy of entire genetic sequences
cryptanalysis · climate modeling · deep learning · ray tracing · video encoding · protein folding
GPU
Visual processing hardware
- CPUMain computing chip
- processorComponent that executes instructions
- chipsetCoordinated circuit collection
semiconductor · transistor · microprocessor · silicon · circuitry · core · cache · motherboard · graphics card · ASIC
throughput
Processing rate over time
- benchmarkStandard for comparison
- efficiencyProductive without waste
- scalabilityCapacity for growth
peak performance · optimization · bottleneck · latency · bandwidth · workload
gigaflop
Processing speed unit
- floating-pointDecimal number representation
- operationsPlanned systematic activities
- benchmarkStandard for comparison
cluster
Gathered group nearby
- mainframeLarge centralized computer system
- parallel computingSimultaneous multi-processor problem-solving
- FrontierBudget American airline
data center · node · rack · interconnect · cooling system · power consumption
machine learning
Algorithms that improve from data
- neural networksLayered computational learning systems
- renderingInterpretive depiction or performance
- weather forecastingPredicting future atmospheric conditions
genomics · cryptanalysis · climate modeling · deep learning · ray tracing · video encoding · protein folding
- computing unitsbit, byte, kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte
- tera- unitsterabyte, terabit, terawatt, terahertz
- Supercomputingsupercomputer, parallel processing, petaflops, cluster, number crunching
teraflopterabyte
Trillion-byte measure
gigabyte · memory capacity · storage capacity · bandwidth · latency