teraflop club

from Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)

teraflop club
 /te'[email protected] 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}.

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

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)

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