petascale

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