a GFLOP is a billion FLOPS, yet i don't know if this directly means 15billion calculations, or much less due to it being an 'operation' but from my knowledge, it can't be only 63 million calculations...
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just googled and came up with this:
"It is now possible to buy a system capable of 15 Giga Floating Point Operations Per Second (GFLOPS) for about $750."
source: http://www.linux-mag.com/microsites.php?site=business-class-hpc&sid=main&p=4088
a GFLOP is a billion FLOPS, yet i don't know if this directly means 15billion calculations, or much less due to it being an 'operation' but from my knowledge, it can't be only 63 million calculations...