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Old 10-28-2004, 09:43 AM   #8
aleph_null1
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flop == floating point operation

So 42.7 teraflops == 42.7 trillion floating point operations per second... of course a flop is architecture dependent, so the number doesn't really mean that much...

... but when do benchmarks ever?
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