FLOPS

FLOPS means floating-point operations per second. It measures how much arithmetic a machine can do. A modern laptop does around 10¹³, and the largest supercomputers around 10^18.

The main figure on every tile. Everything else on the site is worked out from it.

FLOPS is the unit for the whole site. Every tile and bar shows a rate of operations per second, scaled differently. If you know what a laptop’s ten trillion FLOPS can and can’t do, you can read every other figure by counting orders of magnitude.