gigaflop

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

gigaflops
GFLOPS
gigaflop

   <unit> (GFLOPS) One thousand million (10^9) {floating point}
   operations per second.

   One of them is strictly "one gigaflops" in the same way that
   one mile per hour isn't 1 MP.

   See {prefix}.

   (1998-04-19)