exabyte

[ek-suh-bahyt]

noun

Computers.

1. 2 60 bytes, or 1,024 petabytes.

2. (loosely) 10 18 or a billion billion bytes. EB

exabyte

/ ˈɛksəˌbaɪt /

noun

1. computing 10 ¹⁸ or 2 ⁶⁰ bytes

Word History and Origins

Origin of exabyte¹

exa- + byte

Example Sentences

According to the company’s current assessment, there would be a shortage of at least 6.5 exabytes in flash storage availability.

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At that point, it’ll contain some 16,000 total GPUs and will be able to train AI systems “with more than a trillion parameters on data sets as large as an exabyte.”

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“We built out all of these custom tools and work in order to handle exabytes of data,” Zander said.

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The brain, holding its “200 exabytes of information, roughly equal to ‘the entire digital content of today’s world.’

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One measure is the amount of information that courses through it: about five exabytes a day.

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