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From: Craig S Dohmen
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 1997 00:00

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Thomas Ray <snak...@thecore.com> wrote in article
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> 1.4 Teraflops would be the equivalent of 1.4 Million MHZ, FYI

Ermmmm... the "flops" rating has nothing to do with the clock speed.
'Flops' is short for 'floating point operations per second', hence a
teraflop is one billion ops per second.  So, if you had a massively
parallel machine with one million processors, and you could do one
operation per clock cycle, and your processors were running at 1 Hz,
you'd still have a 1 Megaflop machine.

--Craig

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