exabyte

The exabyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information. The prefix exa indicates the sixth power of 1000 and means 1018 in the International System of Units (SI), and therefore 1 exabyte is one quintillion bytes (short scale). The unit symbol for the exabyte is EB.

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IBM to develop world’s most powerful computing system tasked with finding origins of Universe

Mon, Apr 2, 2012

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Backed by an international consortium, ten years from now the world’s largest and most sensitive radio telescope in the world will be built – the Square Kilometer Array (SKA). The project will consist in thousands of antennas displaced across thousands of miles, with a collecting area equivalent to one square kilometer (hence the name), that [...]

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