{"id":655125,"date":"2013-04-29T14:00:36","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T18:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.datacenterknowledge.com\/?p=96510"},"modified":"2013-04-29T14:00:36","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T18:00:36","slug":"what-is-a-flop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/655125","title":{"rendered":"What is a FLOP?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wonder about the meaning of a FLOP? Beyond a measure of number crunching, or simply the basis of the acronym &#8211; Floating Point Operation &#8212; what does FLOP mean for computing, and more specifically, supercomputing? This video with Greg Newby, director of the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center, at the <strong>University of Alaska, Fairbanks<\/strong> and Per Nyberg of <strong>Cray, Inc.<\/strong>, dives into the meaning of flops as a measurement to compare high-performance computer speeds and what it means for scientists. &#8220;Scientists want to know, How quickly can I answer my problem?&#8221; said Newby. They also discuss the trends in today&#8217;s multi-core, many-core supercomputing and how it impacts the measurement of processing speed. The video, produced by <a href=\"http:\/\/frontierscientists.com\/\">Frontier Scientists<\/a> at University of Alaska, Fairbanks, runs 4:15.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZaJp6ZYP6Xc\" height=\"264\" width=\"470\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For more stories about supercomputing, see our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.datacenterknowledge.com\/archives\/category\/sectors\/hpc\/\">High Performance Computing Channel<\/a>. For additional video, check out our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.datacenterknowledge.com\/archives\/2011\/07\/26\/archives\/data_center_videos-index.html\">DCK video archive<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/DataCenterVideos\">Data Center Videos <\/a>channel on YouTube.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wonder about the meaning of a FLOP? Beyond a measure of number crunching, or simply the basis of the acronym &#8211; Floating Point Operation &#8212; what does FLOP mean for computing, and more specifically, supercomputing? This video with Greg Newby, director of the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center, at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7437,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-655125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}