1. A unit of computing speed equal to one quadrillion floating-point operations per second (10^15 FLOPS); used to measure supercomputer performance.
Usage: technical; computing; plural form; singular is petaflop

Examples

• The new supercomputer achieved speeds of 100 petaflops, making it one of the fastest in the world.
• Scientists use petaflops as a standard metric to compare the performance of high-performance computing systems.
• Modern exascale computers operate at speeds measured in exaflops, which is 1,000 times faster than petaflops.
• The research facility upgraded its hardware to reach petaflops-level performance for climate modeling simulations.