/gips/ or /jips/ [Analogy with
MIPS] Giga-Instructions per Second (or possibly "Gillions of Instructions per Second"; see
gillion).
In 1991, this was used of only a handful of highly parallel machines and one sequential processor built with Josephson devices.
DEC's
Alpha AXP 21164 processor was the first commercially available 1 GIPS sequential processor (7 Sep 1994). Compare
KIPS.
["A 1-GIPS Josephson Data Processor", Yuji Hatano et al, IEEE J Solid State Circuits, vol 26, 6, June 1991]
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Jargon File]
(1994-11-02)