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  • adjective physics, computing Used as a metric to signify 1018

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exa- +‎ scale

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  • The term exascale refers to how many calculations a supercomputer can run through each second.

    eWeek - RSS Feeds 2009

  • The term exascale refers to how many calculations a supercomputer can carry out each second.

    ACM TechNews 2009

  • However, in an article published in IEEE Computer in January, Parthasarathy Ranganathan, a Hewlett-Packard electrical engineer, offers a radical alternative to today's computer designs that would permit new designs for consumer electronics products as well as the next generation of supercomputers, known as exascale processors.

    NYT > Home Page By JOHN MARKOFF 2011

  • Intel Federal will first focus on the high-performance computing segment, including work on so-called exascale supercomputers.

    unknown title 2011

  • The Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) has awarded the first grants to firms it wants to build so-called exascale computers.

    BBC News - Technology 2010

  • We need IT systems that are 1,000 times more powerful, we need what is called exascale computing

    Silicon Valley Watcher - at the intersection of technology and media foremski 2010

  • We need IT systems that are 1,000 times more powerful, we need what is called exascale computing

    Silicon Valley Watcher - at the intersection of technology and media foremski 2010

  • One can actually view cloud-based systems as a kind of exascale class supercomputers designed to support embarrassingly parallel workloads, such as massive information analysis or huge numbers of sen sors and mobile devices.

    ACM TechNews 2010

  • One can actually view cloud-based systems as a kind of exascale class supercomputers designed to support embarrassingly parallel workloads, such as massive information analysis or huge numbers of sensors and mobile devices.

    ZDNet News - News Page One Tom Foremski 2010

  • One can actually view cloud-based systems as a kind of exascale class supercomputers designed to support embarrassingly parallel workloads, such as massive information analysis or huge numbers of sensors and mobile devices.

    ZDNet News - News Page One Tom Foremski 2010

  • The transition to exascale computing involves a thousandfold increase in computing power from the petascale systems installed during the past decade, and it promises to open up a broader array of applications, such as precision medicine and AI.

    Meet Aurora, soon to be the most powerful supercomputer in the U.S. Andrew Freedman 2019

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