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teraflop

In computing, jargon for 1 trillion floating point operations (computations) per second. In 2005, the IBM-built ‘BlueGene/L’ broke its own record as the world's fastest supercomputer by performing 280 teraflops per second.

Entropia is one of the organizations which links together many supercomputers with the aim of making new advances, such as finding very large prime numbers.



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