1. reported using Hadoop to sort one petabyte of data in about 16 hours (see Resources to learn more about these benchmarks).

2. "This 120 petabyte system is on the lunatic fringe now, but in a few years it may be that all cloud computing systems are like it, " Hillsberg says.

3. Some incarnations of GFS are file systems "many petabytes in size"--a petabyte being a million gigabytes.

4. The 120 petabyte "drive"—that's 120 million gigabytes—is made up of 200,000 conventional hard disk drives working together.

5. But when data sets get to the petabyte scale, the old way simply isn't feasible.

6. One terabyte is 1024GB; 1 petabyte (PB) is 1024TB; 1 exabyte (EB) is 1024 PB; and 1 zettabyte (ZB) is 1024PB.

7. Its millions of servers process about 1 petabyte of user-generated data every hour.

8. With this new resource control the total memory limit of a WPAR can be set to any value between 1 MB and 8,796,093,022,207 MB (about 8388608 TB or 8192 PB (Petabyte) or 8 EB (Exabyte)).

9. Internet-scale refers to the terabyte and petabyte age of data sizes and the ability to scale to meet the processing requirements to handle this amount of data in a timely manner.

10. As database size grows into terabyte and petabyte[sentencedict .com], the time and hardware resources required will grow substantially.

11. They eliminated the applications and consolidated all the marts into a single petabyte data mart, which over 100,000 people are accessing daily.

12. Online data is growing rapidly, and terms like terabyte, petabyte, and exabyte are commonly used.

13. The new maximum PP size provides an architectural support for 256 petabyte disks.