What does FLOPS stand for?

Floating-Point Operations Per Second

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Samples in periodicals archive:

One gigaflop is a billion floating-point operations per second.

004 trillion floating-point operations per second (Teraflops) of sustained performance in the LINPACK benchmark test.

This year, NCEP purchased an IBM supercomputer capable of a peak speed of 690 billion floating-point operations per second (gigaFLOPS).

6 billion floating-point operations per second (GFLOPS) at 600 MHz.

004 trillion floating-point operations per second (Teraflops) of sustained performance in the LINPACK benchmark test.

A teraflop is one trillion floating-point operations per second.