What are gigaflops?
Gigafops are the rate of computer speed. Gigafop is a billion operations with moving floating point per second (FLOPS). FLOPS, which is technically either unique or plural, are used mainly in the fields of calculations of scientific point points. The floating point is a computer term that refers to a system for numerical representation, where the numeral string means a rational number. It "swims" in the sense that it can be placed anywhere due to significant numbers of the number. The number with a moving point is expressed as a basic number, also called mantissa, exponent and base number or radix. The base is usually either ten or two. The movable point operation is measured using registers with moving floating points. The fastest computer processor, Cray XT Jaguar, which was Expanded in November 2008 operates at 1.64 petflops or one quadrillion. Computer operations are usually measured in megafops, which is one million flops. However, as computer systems are expanding, technicians use such terms asGigafops; teraflops, which are one trillion; And even petafops.
Gigafops are good computer raw performance indicators, but they should not be the only factor used to measure your computer's performance because they cannot measure integer calculations. It is also not recommended to use flops as a scale of computer speed, as it provides only a theoretical performance with a movable point with one accuracy. A computer code that uses a double -accuracy power with a movable point would not be an accurate scale. Only the most specialized applications are so large that gigafops must be used.
Modern processors usually include a moving point (FPU), which is part of the microprocessor responsible for the flops. Flop measurement is FPU speed. Other elements that do not take into account the flops measurements include whether the microprocessor runs under strong or light loads and specific operations that are behindHolded to operations with a movable point.
Standard performance evaluation Corporation (SPEC) is a non -profit company -based technician who is interested in creating a standard of benchmark tests for flop measurement. Tests are intensive measurements of such factors as the whole performance of the whole and performance with a movable point.