teraflop club

( /te´r@·flop kluhb/, n.)

   [FLOP  =  Floating  Point Operation] A mythical association of people
   who consume outrageous amounts of computer time in order to produce a
   few  simple  pictures  of  glass  balls  with  intricate  ray-tracing
   techniques.  Caltech  professor James Kajiya is said to have been the
   founder. Compare {Knights of the Lambda Calculus}.

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