exaflop

English

Etymology

exa- +‎ FLOP

Noun

exaflop (plural exaflops)

(computing) 10¹⁸ floating-point operations per second.
- 2008 June 9, John Markoff, “Military Supercomputer Sets Record”, in New York Times‎:
  The next thousandfold goal is the exaflop, which is a quintillion calculations per second, followed by the zettaflop, the yottaflop and the xeraflop.

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