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  2. Floating point operations per second - Wikipedia

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    Floating point operations per second (FLOPS, flops or flop/s) is a measure of computer performance in computing, useful in fields of scientific computations that require floating-point calculations. [1] For such cases, it is a more accurate measure than measuring instructions per second. [citation needed]

  3. Performance per watt - Wikipedia

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    FLOPS per watt is a common measure. Like the FLOPS ( Floating Point Operations Per Second) metric it is based on, the metric is usually applied to scientific computing and simulations involving many floating point calculations.

  4. Instructions per second - Wikipedia

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    Computer processing efficiency, measured as the power needed per million instructions per second (watts per MIPS) Instructions per second (IPS) is a measure of a computer's processor speed.

  5. Computer performance by orders of magnitude - Wikipedia

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    1×10 −1: multiplication of two 10-digit numbers by a 1940s electromechanical desk calculator [1]; 3×10 −1: multiplication on Zuse Z3 and Z4, first programmable digital computers, 1941 and 1945 respectively

  6. Clock rate - Wikipedia

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    On March 6, 2000, AMD demonstrated passing the 1 GHz milestone a few days ahead of Intel shipping 1 GHz in systems. In 2002, an Intel Pentium 4 model was introduced as the first CPU with a clock rate of 3 GHz (three billion cycles per second corresponding to ~ 0.33 nanoseconds per cycle). Since then, the clock rate of production processors has ...

  7. Petascale computing - Wikipedia

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    Petascale computing refers to computing systems capable of performing at least 1 quadrillion (10^15) floating-point operations per second (FLOPS). These systems are often called petaflops systems and represent a significant leap from traditional supercomputers in terms of raw performance, enabling them to handle vast datasets and complex ...

  8. Half-precision floating-point format - Wikipedia

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    In computing, half precision (sometimes called FP16 or float16) is a binary floating-point computer number format that occupies 16 bits (two bytes in modern computers) in computer memory.

  9. Adjusted Peak Performance - Wikipedia

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    Adjusted Peak Performance (APP) is a metric introduced by the U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) to more accurately predict the suitability of a computing system to complex computational problems, specifically those used in simulating nuclear weapons.