1. A unit of computing speed equal to one quadrillion (10^15) floating-point operations per second.
Usage: technical; computing

Examples

• The supercomputer achieved petaflop performance, making it one of the fastest machines in the world.
• Modern exascale computers are measured in exaflops, which is 1,000 times faster than a petaflop.
• Scientists use petaflop-scale systems to simulate complex climate models.
• The facility's petaflop processor enables real-time analysis of massive datasets.
• Reaching petaflop speeds was a major milestone in high-performance computing.