different between petabyte vs petascale

English

Etymology

From peta- +? byte.

Noun

petabyte (plural petabytes)

1. (SI) One quadrillion (10¹⁵, or 1,000,000,000,000,000) bytes. SI symbol: PB.
2. (computing) 1,125,899,906,842,624 bytes or 1024⁵, or 2⁵⁰. This capacity may be expressed unambiguously as a pebibyte. SI symbol: PiB, computing symbol: PB.

Coordinate terms

• Previous: terabyte
• Next: exabyte

Translations

Czech

Alternative forms

• petabajt

Etymology

peta- +? byte

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?p?tabajt]

Noun

petabyte m

1. petabyte

Further reading

• byte in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English petabyte.

Noun

petabyte m (plural petabytes)

1. (computing) petabyte (one quadrillion bytes)

Synonyms

• Abbreviations: PB, peta

Coordinate terms

• Multiples of the byte: kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte, terabyte, petabyte, exabyte, zettabyte, yottabyte

Related terms

• petabit
• pebibyte

English

Etymology

peta- +? scale

Adjective

petascale (not comparable)

1. 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.

Coordinate terms

• gigascale
• terascale

References

• Scalable System Software for Petascale Computer Systems
• U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science Genomics glossary

Anagrams

• Cape teals