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n. 1 (lb en computing) A (l en unit of measure) of the calculating speed of a computer equal to: 2 # one thousand million million (10¹⁵) (l en floating point operation floating point operations) per second. 3 # 1,125,899,906,842,624 (2⁵⁰) floating point operations per second.
Usage examples of "petaflop".
Super-fast computers on the petaflops scale will likely force programmers to use new methods to compile and debug computer programs.
One solution could be designing petaflops computers to be neural or neural-like and to self-program, or evolve their own software.
It is not difficult to imagine a future in which petaflops computers will be produced in mass quantities and sent off to be educated and to evolve their own individual programming in special factory 'school rooms.
Depending on the criteria for choosing the most likely or desirable solution -- least energy, least money, least action, or whatever rule you want to apply -- a petaflops computer could almost literally collapse the wave function of a problem.
Meanwhile automated factories in Indonesia and Mexico have produced another quarter of a million motherboards with processors rated at more than ten petaflops – about an order of magnitude below the lower bound on the computational capacity of a human brain.
The suite lights dim in response to commands from the thousand petaflops of distributed processing power running the neural networks that interface with his meatbrain through the glasses.
The suite lights dim in response to commands from the thousand petaflops of distributed processing power that runs the neural networks that interface with his meatbrain through the glasses.