petascale

English

adj
Definitions
  • A metric for objects on the scale of quadrillions (10 or 1,000,000,000,000,000) of elements. Most often used for computer systems; a petascale computer system operates at speeds measured in petaflops and has memory measured in petabytes.

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Prefix from English scale.

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English

scale

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