FLOPS was originally “floating point operations per second”, specifying a rate of work for a system: A SPARCstation 2 gave 4.2 MFLOPS. Today you also see it used as “floating point operations” for an algorithm, or an amount of work: This layer takes 8 GFLOPS.

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