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Noun: zettaflop
  1. (computing) a unit for measuring the speed of a computer system, equal to one sextillion floating-point operations a second.
    "Erik P. DeBenedictis of Sandia National Laboratories theorizes that a zettaFLOPS (ZFLOPS) computer is required to accomplish full weather modeling of two week time span.";
    - ZFLOPS

Type of: unit, unit of measurement

Part of: YFLOPS, yottaflop