zflops

Noun (1)

1. (computer science) a unit for measuring the speed of a computer system, equal to one sextillion floating-point operations a second.“Erik P. DeBenedictis of Sandia National Laboratories theorizes that a zettaFLOPS (ZFLOPS) computer is required to accomplish full weather modeling of two week time span.”Synonyms: zettaflopType of unit of measurement, unitPart of YFLOPS, yottaflopParts exaflop, EFLOPS