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petaflop
A measure of a computer's processing speed and can be expressed as a thousand trillion floating point operations per second.

A flop refers to the floating-point operations per second. It is considered to be a method of encoding "real" numbers within the limits of finite precision available on computers.

The IBM machine, codenamed Roadrunner, has been shown to run at "petaflop speeds", and it will be used for research into astronomy, genomics, and climate change. It has been modified to handle a greater bandwidth of data and to carry out more specialized calculations.

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