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Exaflop vs Petaflop - What's the difference?

exaflop | petaflop |

In computing terms the difference between exaflop and petaflop

is that exaflop is 1018 floating-point operations per second while petaflop is a unit of computing power equal to 1000 (or 1024) teraflops.

exaflop

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (computing) 1018 floating-point operations per second.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2008, date=June 9, author=John Markoff, title=Military Supercomputer Sets Record, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=The next thousandfold goal is the exaflop , which is a quintillion calculations per second, followed by the zettaflop, the yottaflop and the xeraflop. }}

    petaflop

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (computing) A unit of computing power equal to 1000 (or 1024) teraflops