I thought petaflop was when a rally by animal rights activists failed to get support.

>Finally, the petaflops computer is about to arrive (planned for 2008). By the way, what a nice name for a fast computer - "Roadrunner".
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>Although sometimes it is tiring to continually see the two uses of "speed" confused - a) computer speeds (operations per second), and b) speed of movement (meters per second).
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>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5322704.stm