Re:A terraflop? (Score 2, Insightful)

Because everyone's definition of a FLOP is different. The top500.org uses Linpack. But none of the manufacturers do because a Linpack FLOP is much harder to achieve than a "paper design" FLOP. Look at Apple's claim of a 15GFLOP G4. There is no way that a G4 with PC133 memory can even sustain 0.25 GFLOPs under Linpack but is that stopping them from claiming multi-GFLOP performance? Of course not! Sales & Marketing always has the last say in these types of things.