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teraflop club

2 definitions found

teraflop club - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  teraflop club
  
     <body> /te'r*-flop kluhb/ (From tera- and flops) A
     mythical association of people who consume outrageous amounts
     of computer time in order to produce a few simple pictures of
     glass balls with intricate ray-tracing techniques.  Caltech
     professor James Kajiya is said to have been the founder.
  
     [Jargon File]
  
     (1997-07-21)
  

teraflop club - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  teraflop club
   /te'r@.flop kluhb/, n.
  
     [FLOP = Floating Point Operation] A mythical association of people
  who
     consume outrageous amounts of computer time in order to produce a few
     simple pictures of glass balls with intricate ray-tracing techniques.
     Caltech professor James Kajiya is said to have been the founder.
     Compare Knights of the Lambda Calculus.