teraflop club

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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