A measure of computer performance---one Teraflop is floating point operations per second
[trillions] A measure of computer performance---one Teraflop is 10 12 floating point operations per second [Geoffrey Fox, High Performance Distributed Computing, Glossary, 1996] http: //www npac syr edu/users/gcf/sccs750/node7 html
a unit that measures how fast a computer works. One teraflop is one trillion operations every second