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  Windows supercomputer breaks petaflops barrier
Time: 08:35 EST/13:35 GMT | News Source: *Linked Within Post* | Posted By: Chris Hedlund

Petaflops. Sounds like something out of Dr. Seuss or "Harry Potter," huh? Of course, it just as easily could be a tech term -- and it is. A flops (it's singular, and stands for "floating point operations per second") is a measurement of computing performance. And a petaflops is 10^15 flops -- or 1 quadrillion mathematical calculations per second.

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