teraflopn.
/ˈtɛrəflɒp/ Computing.
A unit of computing speed equal to 1000 gigaflops.
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1984 Electronics Week 26 Nov. 21/1 We could easily make use of machines sustaining speeds of one teraflops (1 trillion floating-point operations per second).
1986 Computerworld 22 Dec. 40/4 There's no reason why you can't have highly parallel processors in the hundreds of GFLOPS or even a teraflop (trillion) range in use by the end of this decade.
1992 Computer Weekly 30 July 10/1 Teraflop performance is needed to tackle the so-called grand challenge problems such as global environmental modelling.
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