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When I read that, I saw nothing but technological "blah blah blah".

Explain plz?

In computing, FLOPS (or flops) is an abbreviation of Floating Point Operations Per Second. This is used as a measure of a computer's performance, especially in fields of scientific calculations that make heavy use of floating point calculations. (Compare to MIPS -- million instructions per second.) One should speak in the singular of a FLOPS and not of a FLOP, although the latter is frequently encountered. The final S stands for second and does not indicate a plural.

Alternatively, the singular FLOP (or flop) is used as an abbreviation for "floating-point operation", and a flop count is a count of these operations (e.g., required by a given algorithm or computer program). In this context, "flops" is simply the plural rather than a rate.

Computing devices exhibit an enormous range of performance levels in floating-point applications, so it makes sense to introduce larger units than the FLOPS. The standard SI prefixes can be used for this purpose, resulting in such units as the megaFLOPS (MFLOPS, 106 FLOPS), the gigaFLOPS (GFLOPS, 109 FLOPS), the teraFLOPS (TFLOPS, 1012 FLOPS), the petaFLOPS (PFLOPS, 1015 FLOPS) and the exaFLOPS (EFLOPS, 1018 FLOPS).

So it performs at a exaFLOPS rate?

*smacks head on desk*

I said PFLOP in the title, not Exa