MIPS-year
Encyclopedia
A MIPS-year is a measurement of computational steps for computer
s. MIPS means million instructions per second, and a MIPS-year is equal to the number of steps processed for one year at one million instructions per second.
Thus, a MIPS-year would be equal to:
1,000,000 • (365 days/year) • (86400 seconds/day), or approximately 31.5 trillion instructions.
Computer
A computer is a programmable machine designed to sequentially and automatically carry out a sequence of arithmetic or logical operations. The particular sequence of operations can be changed readily, allowing the computer to solve more than one kind of problem...
s. MIPS means million instructions per second, and a MIPS-year is equal to the number of steps processed for one year at one million instructions per second.
Thus, a MIPS-year would be equal to:
1,000,000 • (365 days/year) • (86400 seconds/day), or approximately 31.5 trillion instructions.