ClimateAugust 4, 2026

exaflops

EK-suh-flops

Definition

A unit of computing speed equal to one quintillion floating-point operations per second, used to measure the performance of high-end AI and scientific supercomputers.

Etymology

Derived from the SI prefix 'exa-' (representing 10 to the 18th power) combined with 'flops,' which is an acronym for 'floating-point operations per second.'

In the news

The article uses the term to describe the massive processing power of Nvidia's Vera Rubin hardware, noting that a full POD configuration can scale to 60 exaflops.

Anthropic's $10B Norway Compute Deal Gives Nvidia's Ecosystem Its First JPMorgan Credit Backstop

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Tech Times

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