Sentence examples for petabyte in the same from inspiring English sources
"Our new measurements of the brain's memory capacity increase conservative estimates by a factor of 10 to at least a petabyte, in the same ballpark as the World Wide Web".
Even a fast modern connection, at 1Gb/s, uploading 50TB of data will take four days; uploading 100 petabytes over the same connection would take a little over 25 years.
Of the 50 petabytes of data held on hard disk, however, it loses a few hundred terabytes in the same period.The third benefit of tapes is that they do not need power to preserve data held on them.
Hence, for a city or a country-scale deployment we could easily reach the petabyte scales in the first year.
For example, the Obama administration's proposal to eventually capture the activity of just one million neurons in the human brain (the human brain has about 85 to 100 billion neurons) for a year would require about 3 petabytes of data storage, or almost one third the amount generated by the Large Hadron Collider during the same period.
For example, the Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) dataset is over a petabyte in size and consists of more than 575,000 files.
HDFS provides the raw underlying storage on commodity hardware for massive datasets (which may be petabytes in size), and MapReduce provides the programming model to run computations over significant portions of the dataset in parallel.
In theory, that gave GCHQ access to a flow of 21.6 petabytes in a day, equivalent to 192 times the British Library's entire book collection.
