GFLOPS. what does this means?

Answer 1

In computing, FLOPS (or flops) is an acronym meaning Floating Point Operations Per Second. This is used as a measure of a computer's performance, especially in fields of scientific calculations that make heavy use of floating point calculations. (Compare to MIPS -- million instructions per second.) One should speak in the singular of a FLOPS and not of a FLOP, although the latter is frequently encountered. The final S stands for second and does not indicate a plural.

Alternatively, the singular FLOP (or flop) is used as an abbreviation for "floating-point operation", and a flop count is a count of these operations (e.g., required by a given algorithm or computer program). In this context, "flops" is simply the plural rather than a rate.

Computing devices exhibit an enormous range of performance levels in floating-point applications, so it makes sense to introduce larger units than the FLOPS. The standard SI prefixes can be used for this purpose, resulting in such units as megaFLOPS (MFLOPS, 106 FLOPS), gigaFLOPS (GFLOPS, 109 FLOPS), teraFLOPS (TFLOPS, 1012 FLOPS), petaFLOPS (PFLOPS, 1015 FLOPS) and exaFLOPS (EFLOPS, 1018 FLOPS).

Answer 2

Giga [billion] Floating Point Operations Per Second.Its used as a measure of a computer's performance, especially in fields of scientific calculations

Answer 3

Gflops

Answer 4

I thik it stands for gigaflops- which means a messure of computing speed equal to one billion floating point operations per second- when put in perspective - thats the speed of some SLOWER supercomputers