petaflop

"IBM and Los Alamos National Laboratory break a processing speed record with the world's first petaflop computer, Roadrunner " - Wikipedia

I had to look up what a petaflop is, and I still don't quite get it, but I think I 've grasped it enough to know that it's really fast (10 to the power of 15 flops - a calculator averages about 10 flops).  read more »