Newsgroups: comp.parallel
From: djensen@sed.psrw.com (David Jensen)
Subject: Beyond Teraflops (Easy Question)
Organization: Pacific Sierra Research
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 1995 12:56:59 GMT
Message-ID: <1995Jan9.124027.6728@sed.psrw.com>

Greetings! 

Here's an easy question ...

I know ...
kiloflops == 1e3 floating point operations per second
megaflops == 1e6 floating point operations per second
gigaflops == 1e9 floating point operations per second
teraflops == 1e12 floating point operations per second

I think ... 
petaflops == 1e15 floating point operations per second

But what are the next couple prefixes?
????flops == 1e18 floating point operations per second
????flops == 1e21 floating point operations per second


(Arr, arr, let's talk some serious processing power!) 

Thanks! 
David Jensen 
djensen@sed.psrw.com 
1-703-516-6384

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David Jensen
djensen@sed.psrw.com
1-703-516-6384


