exaflop

English

Etymology

From exa- +‎ FLOP.

Noun

exaflop (plural exaflops)

1. (computing) 10¹⁸ floating-point operations per second.
   • 2008 June 9, John Markoff, “Military Supercomputer Sets Record”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     The next thousandfold goal is the exaflop, which is a quintillion calculations per second, followed by the zettaflop, the yottaflop and the xeraflop.