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petascale

adj

Etymology

From peta- + scale.

  1. derived from *skalō✻
  2. derived from skala
  3. derived from escale
  4. inherited from scale
  5. prefixed as petascale — “peta + scale”

Definitions

  1. A metric for objects on the scale of quadrillions (10¹⁵ or 1,000,000,000,000,000) of…

    A metric for objects on the scale of quadrillions (10¹⁵ 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for petascale. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA