GIPS
/gips/ or
/jips/
n.
[analogy with MIPS] Giga-Instructions per
Second (also possibly ‘Gillions of Instructions per Second’;
see gillion). In 1991, this is used of only a
handful of highly parallel machines, but this is expected to change.
Compare KIPS.
Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:45 AM