How to Use petaflop in a Sentence

petaflop

noun

• Peak performance reaches 50 petaflops.
  — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 5 Jan. 2026
• Microsoft says the chip packs more than 100 billion transistors and produces over 10 petaflops of compute at 4-bit precision.
  — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 26 Jan. 2026
• Since last November, the total performance of all 500 computers on the list is 60 percent higher—672 petaflops.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Nov. 2016
• By making tens of petaflops of processing power accessible across borders, Arrhenius gives scientists and industry another resource for workloads that conventional computing simply cannot keep pace with.
  — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 9 Sep. 2026
• Eight years later, a conventional silicon supercomputer—IBM’s Roadrunner—was touted as the first to reach petaflop operation.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 24 Feb. 2016
• Our research shows that starting at around 10 16 floating-point operations per second (tens of petaflops) the superconducting computer handily becomes more power efficient than its classical cousin.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 15 May 2024
• Manheimer projects that a superconducting supercomputer produced in a follow-up to C3 could run at 100 petaflops and consume 200 kilowatts, including the cryocooling.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 24 Feb. 2016
• Most of the top 10 supercomputers remained unchanged, with China’s Sunway TaihuLight still clocking in first at 93 petaflops and Tianhe-2 still second at 34 petaflops.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Nov. 2016
• Slated to launch this fall, the Surface Laptop Ultra bridges the gap between thin-and-light ultraportables and beefy workstation laptops, offering the template for a new consumer category that can drive a full petaflop of AI-ready compute power.
  — Brian Westover, PC Magazine, 1 June 2026
• Judging by the Top500 list alone, China’s fastest entry, Sunway TaihuLight, trails far behind Frontier, clocking in at just 93 petaflops across its more than 10 million cores.
  — Margo Anderson, IEEE Spectrum, 15 Nov. 2022
• The new machine, which is based at the National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi, can perform a key benchmark test called Linpack at 93 petaflops (a thousand trillion floating point operations per second)—nearly three times the speed of the Tianhe-2.
  — Rachel Courtland, IEEE Spectrum, 20 June 2016
• Europe has added another powerful machine to its growing supercomputing network with the inauguration of Arrhenius, a new system in Sweden capable of more than 60 petaflops, or over 60 million billion operations per second.
  — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 9 Sep. 2026
• During the experiment, the supercomputer, which uses over 150,000 CPUs to achieve over 442 petaflops of computing power, conducted one of the largest cosmological simulations to date.
  — Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2025
• The laboratory previously announced that Flyer and Raven would deliver approximately 14 petaflops of computational capability.
  — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 22 June 2026
• Delivering the petaflops of processing power required to run massive local AI models, the RTX Spark is built to crunch through heavy workloads that are simply too demanding for traditional PCs paired with standard discrete GPUs.
  — Brian Westover, PC Magazine, 1 June 2026
• Tianhe-2, capable of almost 34 petaflops, was developed by China’s National University of Defense Technology (NUDT), is deployed at the National Supercomputer Center in Guangzho, and still enjoys the number-two position on the list.
  — David Schneider, IEEE Spectrum, 19 June 2017
• Packing a 20-core Grace CPU, a Blackwell GPU with 6,144 CUDA cores, and up to 128GB of unified coherent memory, the platform delivers an unprecedented 1 petaflop of local compute—enough to run a 120-billion-parameter model on your device.
  — Brian Westover, PC Magazine, 9 June 2026
• The TaihuLight, capable of some 93 petaflops in this year’s benchmark tests, was designed by the National Research Center of Parallel Computer Engineering & Technology (NRCPC) and is located at the National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi, China.
  — David Schneider, IEEE Spectrum, 19 June 2017