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- adjective A
metric for objects on the scale ofquadrillions (1015 or 1,000,000,000,000,000) of elements. Most often used for computer systems; a petascale computer system operates at speeds measured inpetaflops and has memory measured inpetabytes .
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IBM said that it planned to build a "petascale" supercomputer that would be based on the upcoming Power7 processor and would be used by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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IBM has said it will build a "petascale" supercomputer based on its upcoming Power7 processor for the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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IBM has said it will build a "petascale" supercomputer based on its upcoming Power7 processor for the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
InfoWorld RSS Feed 2009
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New "petascale" computer models depicting detailed climate dynamics, and building the foundation for the next generation of complex climate models, are in the offing.
Earth News, Earth Science, Energy Technology, Environment News 2008
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Researchers at the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, collaborating with NCAR (National Center for Atmospheric Research), COLA (Center for Ocean-Land-Atmospheric Studies) and the University of California at Berkeley are utilizing a $1. 4M award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to generate new "petascale" computer models depicting detailed climate dynamics, and building the foundation for the next generation of complex climate models.
YubaNet.com 2008
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$1. 4M award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to generate new "petascale" computer models depicting detailed climate dynamics, and building the foundation for the next generation of complex climate models.
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2008 / 09 / 04: NSF: Climate Computer Modeling Heats Up -- New "petascale" computer models lead to better understanding of weather-climate links
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This new generation of petascale machines will move scientific simulation beyond just supporting the two main branches of science, theory and experimentation, and into the foreground.
Wired Top Stories Betsy Mason 2008
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He starts with a truly important and exciting development – giant new petascale datasets that resist ordinary modes of analysis, but which we can use to uncover heretofore unexpected patterns lurking within torrents of information – and draws a dramatically unsupported conclusion – that the age of theory is over.
What Good is a Theory? Sean 2008
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Already several U.S. companies, including Cray (CRAY), IBM, and Sun Microsystems (SUNW) are preparing to create computers with petascale computing power.
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