Petascale computers are those capable of executing at least 1015 floating point operations per second. This number of operations per second isknown as a petaflop.
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Padua, D. (2011). Petascale Computer. In: Padua, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Parallel Computing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09766-4_141
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