Terms

• flops - floating point operations

  • + or * count as 1 flop
  • sqrt or / count as 4 flops
  • log counts as 8 flops
  • compare counts as 1 flop

• flops are different than cycles!

• flop/s - floating point operations per second

• Mflop/s Million flop/s

• theoretical peak performance

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