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From: jlg@lanl.ARPA (Jim Giles)
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Subject: Re: Floating point performance
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Date: Wed, 15-Oct-86 14:59:44 EDT
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In article <8184@sun.uucp> dgh@sun.UUCP writes:
>
>                            Mflops Per MHz
>
>                             David Hough
>			   dhough@sun.com
>
Mflops:(Millions of FLoating point OPerations per Second)
MHz: (Millions of cycles per second)

Therefore 'Mflops per MHz':(Millions^2 FLoating point OPeration cycles per
			    sec^2)

Sounds like an acceleration to me.  Must be a measure of how fast computer
speed is improving.  Still, the choice of units forces this number to
be small.      8-)

J. Giles
Los Alamos