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Chinese supercomputer leapfrogs best US machines to be ranked world’s fastest
(www.theguardian.com)
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Exaflops/s : WTF are Exaflop accelerating?
I'll help with a layman explanation in addition to what op already defined.
Teraflops is a measure of raw compute power often used to measure GPUs(but isn't really accurate to use to compare 2 different kinds, but that's a whole nother conversation). Exaflops are a million times more than teraflops.
Right, but flops is floating point operations per second. Adding another /s makes it acceleration.
Where is the other s?
Exaflop is 1 quintillion flops (floating point math operations in a second.). Yes, probably can run DOOM.
That's the joke. The table has Exaflops/s => Exaflop /s^2^ => acceleration. Ah, no it doesn't, it has Exaflop/s rather that the normal Exaflops. My bad. Funny how you see what you expect to, no?