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FLOPS

noun \ˈfläps\

also FLOP

TopicChips & Infrastructure Senses1

Definition of FLOPS

  1. : floating-point operations (per second): the basic unit for counting how much computing work a chip does, or how much a training run used

    • The training run used about 10^25 FLOP.
    • Regulators have used FLOP thresholds to decide which models need extra checks.
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