gigaflop

noun

giga·​flop ˈji-gə-ˌfläp  ˈgi- 

plural gigaflops

: a unit of measure for the calculating speed of a computer equal to one billion floating-point operations per second

Examples of gigaflop in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The ending is certainly an interesting new bit of table-setting: There’s Dolores and Bernard both in the real world, Maeve still in the park, Teddy in the great beyond, and gigaflops of data that have been beamed to some mysterious place. —The Atlantic, 24 June 2018

Back in 1998, the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts housed the 27th most-powerful supercomputer in the world, with 116 cores providing a maximum performance of 213 gigaflops. —Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 9 May 2018

Each core is capable of delivering a gigaflop a second, and takes up only a few square millimeters, and each Blue Gene chip will carry a few dozen of them. —Oliver Morton, WIRED, 1 July 2001

Word History

Etymology

floating-point operation

First Known Use

1976, in the meaning defined above