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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>teraflop club</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="tera-.html" title="tera-"/><link rel="next" href="terminak.html" title="terminak"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">teraflop club</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="tera-.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="terminak.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="teraflop-club"/><dt xmlns="" id="teraflop-club"><b>teraflop club</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/te´r@·flop kluhb/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [FLOP = Floating Point Operation] A mythical association of people
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who consume outrageous amounts of computer time in order to produce a few
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simple pictures of glass balls with intricate ray-tracing techniques.
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Caltech professor James Kajiya is said to have been the founder. Compare
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